Having power and size in your arms is basically useless. In almost every movement that you use your arms they're not the ones actually generating power, that usually comes from your back or lower body.
A punch is powerful if it comes from your legs and glutes, if you want to push or pull something you're going to use your whole body for it, if you want to hold on to something you will have to transfer tension to your legs or torso. There's virtually nothing they should be doing on their own, it's like trying to train a finger. The first thing you do when your arms are approaching failure is to generate momentum with the rest of your body, so why waste time training this trivial movement on its own?
If your arm strength ever feels insufficient, you usually just have to learn how to engage other muscles:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/V93oxThgWd0
Instead of training for gains, I propose that arms should be trained for grip strength and muscle endurance alone. They should be smaller in size so they don't consume as much energy, and so it can perform its isometric functions in service of larger muscle groups well.
>beats you in arm wrestling because youre a little b***h
>one of the most explosive hard hitters in boxing history
Would you say Mike Tyson had small arms?
he had short arms for a heavyweight which make them look bigger and his physique is still dominated by his wide hips and strong looking core
His arms look proportional to the rest of his torso.
have a nice day moron
>punching with your legs
that's called a kick
and look like a completely unhealthy noodle armed dyel haha gayyyy
not lifting for aesthetics in this world is a mistake
you get treated differently not even talking abt pussy
yep pretty much. Fighting is a fullbody workout but some muscles are more important than others
back, legs, and core for striking and grappling power
and neck for bridging and being able to take punches.
Cardio for obvious reasons
as a fighter, beyond having greater than average muscle strength for their weight in all of their muscles, you're better off spending your time sparring and drilling
Training for functionality doesnt make you look like a bodybuilder, but the upside is that its functional.
OP is a literal moron
Sounds like something that somebody with small arms would say. Small arms detected, opinion rejected.
Do your arm and shoulder isolations or you will have a cursed physique
I do agree but im biased because I dont like isolation exercises. I guess my arms would be bigger if I trained them dorectly but theyre not dispropotional.
Also I dont think it does much for strenght unless youre maxing on bicep curls.
This is cope. The rest of your body does a lot of work which is transmitted through your arms, but you need strong chest shoulders and triceps to punch things and strong shoulders and biceps to pull things, otherwise you end up looking like Popeye and getting winded really easily because you are overworking your core and hams.
I took the same approach for many years but my body improved dramatically after I started lifting and building out my upper body strength including arms.
>A punch is powerful if it comes from your legs and glutes
Stop blindly repeating shit you read on reddit, idiot.
i like training arms, why should i care about anything else but health and joy of working out, homosexual
I'm a calisthenics guy and I find training arms boring and I hardly do it but you are still a massive homosexual moron. Big arms look good simple as. Cheat curls are a good full body movement and they give you big arms when done right. Also sometimes forearm/arist/arm isolation has rehab benefits. I've been doing wrist and tricep isolations to fix my ulnar nerve entrapment.
Let me guess, you are a powershitter that only does squat, bench and deadlift and you dont care at all about your looks.
Fine, stop training arms and post body in 2-3 years. I want to see the cursed arm skipper physique
Not going to bother with everything else. The ‘functional’ meme needs to die. I don’t need to go to the gym to work a fricking office job or even lift furniture or shit like that..
I had this, sadly. Still remember a guy at the gym telling me “you look good. Your chest, back, shoulders, they’re all there. But you need to do arms more” and he was absolutely right. I came of age at an absolutely moronic time in pop lifting culture and people constantly spouted moronic shit like you don’t need to work biceps and focusing on abs is vain. Was left with small arms and anterior pelvic tilt that I had to work extremely hard to correct once I realized how fricking stupid it all was. Rippetoe is a surviving example of this once dominant school of thought. Zoomers watching 16 year old morons on gear who are actually doing bodybuilding style programs are unironically far better off than we were
Without big arms no one will think that you lift.
Which is actually in a sense what you should be going for - the ideal physique to impress normies and girls is one that makes you look naturally strong and athletic but like you don't go to the gym
t. 45'' chest and 14'' arms
this is exactly right. arms are almost the be all and end all when it comes to people thinking you lift. you can have broad shoulders and huge quads but if you have comparatively noodle arms people wont think you work out
The question is what you want.
If you want to look attractive and make it as easy as possible, train your deltoids, arms and pecs.
If you care about strength, train everything. If you care about bodybuilding, train everything with an emphasis on certain regions.
If you care about health, train everything but don't overdo it, you don't need very large muscles and you will only burden your body by training too much. And don't forget cardio.
Bodybuilders don't have a very high life expectancy, but they often have body dysmorphic disorder.
Forearms are not overrated.
If anything they're underrated. Thats the one muscle group that gains on will pass on to pretty much the entire body.
homie, I don't give a shit. Big arms and shoulders looks good and that's all that matters, son.
I don't agree with the thread subj but the post is not far from the truth.
>be me, noodle armed
>train calisthenics for a year
>can do 20+ pull-ups, muscle-ups, other meme exercises that probably put me in the 1% of the population
>do 200+ pull-ups in under an hour
>still noodle armed just more toned
>see the same pattern in youtube athletes
I still look dyel in clothes but I feel pretty strong. It's more about endurance, efficiency, mind-muscle connection than sheer muscle volume.
>200+ pullups in an hour
Post body or larp
I posted body before and was called a larper regardless so what's the point
>No cause I got busted for lying out my ass
Figures.
>another internet WIN
Gratz
>Arms are overrated
>he's never had a b***h or gaybro feel up his arms
ngmi
>Having power and size in your arms is basically useless. In almost every movement that you use your arms they're not the ones actually generating power, that usually comes from your back or lower body.
what if you have to go over a tall barrier to save your life? how do you lift yourself if your arms and lats are weak? also, what about grip strength, arguably a limiting factor in anything that involves using your hands to move objects, arms are as important as anything else, a balanced body is the best body