Urgent Help Needed w/ Arms

Hey guys I need help - QUICK!! :biggrin:

I've been working out for like a year probably, but I need big guns, NOW, and I only have 2 weeks before spring break. I've tried different workouts throughout the last year, supplements, and other techniques, and gotten some minor growth. But I need to know what you guys think I should do now in the next 2 weeks inorder to get big arms. I'm content with my chest and everything else, but I need arms... like right now. I'll describe my lifestyle so you guys can formulate your responses accordingly: I get an average of 7 hours of sleep / night. I weigh 150 and am 6 ft. I have at my disposal creatine & whey protein (both of which I have been using for about a year, and I just did a "washout" to start my new workout schedule).

So, here's what I got

7 hours of sleep / night
150 pds 6 ft high
Creatine
Whey protein
Lots of tuna
Protein bars
One straight bar with adjustable weights (no bench)
Machine w/ lat pulldowns, and other little stuff
Two 25 pd dumbells
One adjustable (up to 40) pd dumbell

Does anyone have any idea of some great arm-builders that work fairly quick? As you can see, I have all the nutrition and supplements at my disposal, and most of the sleep, but I just need better techniques.

Please help soon

Thanks guys.

- Ridenour

What is your training schedule like? Are you training to absolute failure every time? That's what I would be doing. You won't want to move your arms much, but you will see good gains. Go on a 1 day on, one day off cycle and increase sleep by 2 hours. Keep your fluids up increase weight/decrease reps after a week.

My schedule right now is weight lift (usually about 1 hour in the morning) every 3 day (so 2 empty days in between). I haven't been lifting to complete PMF either every time - I really will start doing that and upping the weight and downing the reps.

Thanks Oz.

try 21's. curl from your arms being 180 degrees straight to 90 degrees 7 times, then from 90 degrees to all the way up to your chest 7 times, then 7 full curls. a couple sets of those feel GREAT. and do tricep exercises, make the whole thin glook bigger. u weigh 150 lbs and 6'...good lord i hope you are in high school

how many reps per set are you doing?

I'll give those a shot samintheend. And yes, I'm only in High School. LoL.

95cord, I usually do 8-12 reps per set. I shoot for low reps with high weight inorder to try to get more mass.

Hey by the way guys, yesterday I chugged shitloads of water all day - thus doing a massive washout day, I then ate some food so I'd sleep solid and went to bed - woke up early, had creatine/shake and weightlifted really hard with low reps (tryed some new excersises my friends recommended), had more creatine / shake, and then the entire day I had lots of protein and drank shitloads of water, and right now, I feel great. I worked out damn hard, cause when I was done, I felt sick - and that was a good thing :). I think I've got the idea down more now - hard and heavy and lots of fluids. I also didn't take a nap yesterday, so I slept heavier last night.

ahh the skinnyness that plagues so few in america. Im just like you, i got my chest and abs nice, but my arms arent much. When i work out now all i do are arm workouts 2 day breaks between workouts. I take creatine and protein. So far gains are minimal. First 2 months i made some solid gains, almost 10 lbs, now ive leveled off and dont seem to be gaining anything. . .im just starting to pull things by working out to hard. Like my back and my fore arms. . .

^ ^ LoL yeh no kiddin whooyah to us skeletons.

If you've hit a platue, I would highly reccomend taking 10 solid days off from lifting - none at all. Drink lots, sleep lots, and eat lots of protein. Drink tons of water too - it'll be a washout phase to start over with the creatine. Come back hard and heavy, and that should help you break your plateau.

5'10" 160lbs

:( Damn high metabolism.

man ithought i was skinny, but they jsut hired this new cook at my work, damn im scared. Hes prolly 6'5" at maybe, maybe 140 lbs. And hes 20. His arms have no muscle what so ever. I mean he literally looks like he just got out of German Jew camp. He has really braod shoulders, but his shoulders are just bone, so it looks like hes a shirt hanger. I honestly dont think he can make a muscle.

^ ^ Wow. Poor guy. Kind of sounds like one of our history teachers - His last name is Stukey, everyone calls his "Sticky" though. LoL

heavy weight till you cant lift anymore

what OZ said

What generation creatine are you taking and how?? how u take it can greatly affect the way it works in your body/.

do you do tricep workouts? if not you should or you won't see much growth in the bicep... check out www.menshealth.com for some good workouts..

also do dumbell curls like this:

with your arms down have your palms facing backwards(weights will be sideways) then as you go up twist your arms so that they end up like a normal curl at the very top of the motion... do it slowly and try to make your palms face each other right as your forearms are parrallel

I say 2 weeks is no enough time to do much though... but give it 2 months and you'll gain a lot

Greenblur, I'm taking "Creatine Plus" (i'm not sure what generation) from GNC. I take 1 scoop before working out, one scoop after, and one scoop every morning.

And thanks for that site link Soyo, there's some good exercises on there.

ok, it sounds like your taking enough, is that what it says to take on the back of the package? also, everyone hits a plataeu where it seems like no matter how hard they work out, they just cant gain any muscle, which is normal, but if you just keep it up, eventually youll notice a jump in muscle mass again, then hit a plataeu and so on and so on. just stay motivated, keep doing what youre doing, and youll get through it.