Nick Mitchell’s Ultimate Performance

I am often asked about building bigger arms.  So many guys will destroy themselves in the gym with set after set for biceps and triceps, taking everything to failure and using every high intensity technique known to man.  Unless you have the recuperative powers of a small elephant this is NOT the way.

Instead we often focus on helping our personal training clients to get their arms stronger - training to failure isn’t the only way to go. Too many people in bodybuidling get too wrapped up in all out training and often its overkill.

Arms can be overtrained very easily so going for broke every time isn’t always wise.

Lets put it this way, in a volume training cycle where I went to failure on 2/3 sets in 10 (at most) I worked up to 10 sets of 5 reps in dips with an extra 180lbs attached to my dipping belt. Did it work? At 10.4% BF I decided to measure my arms for the first time in 10 years as they looked bigger than my girlfriend’s (admittedly peanut sized!) head…21 inches cold.

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