Build Your Arms by Doing Squats

You’re probably looking at this topic description and saying to yourself “HUH?”

Well, let me explain.

First, a short little discussion about direct arm work.

Isolated arm work isn’t the best route to take in getting bigger arms. The reason being is that your arm muscles are really muscles that are used for assisting other muscles. Think about it. You go to pull something off the wall. You’re mainly using your upper back muscles, and your biceps are just there to help out. You go to push a large object. Again, your mainly using your chest muscles and your triceps are assisting with the push. So, your arms rarely work in isolation so why concentrate on training them in isolation? You want bigger arms, then work the bigger muscles that the arms help (back, chest, and shoulder muscles).

But how can your legs help build your arm muscles?

When you work your leg muscles doing the big exercises such as squats, deadlifts, lunges, etc., various hormones are released. More specifically, testosterone and growth hormone are released. When these are released, they are not only used as a repair mechanism (thus a muscle builder) for the leg muscles, but, for muscles in the entire body. If you only did direct arm work, because the muscles being worked are so small, a very minimal amount of these hormones are released. So the bigger the muscles that are worked, the more of these hormones are released, thus the bigger all the muscles in the body will grow.

To summarize, work out with multiple joint exercise (bench press, dips, pull-ups, shoulder presses, rows, squats, deadlifts, and lunges) with a repetition range of 6-8 per set and with short rest periods (between 60-90 seconds) and you’ll maximize the hormone release you can get from workout to workout, which will help you increase the size of those guns!

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