862: How to Get Big Arms

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge

Exercise, Health & Fitness, Health, Fitness

4.8 • 11.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Sal and Adam discuss how to build your arms, whether you want big "guns" or just want a "toned" look. They discuss the best exercises, techniques, and routines to accelerate the benefits you see from your arm training.

MAPS Fitness Product videos getting a makeover & the challenge of creating a program for the masses. (2:00)
How to Get Big Arms (6:40)
- The myths behind building bigger arms. (8:18)
- Implement the Best Exercises. The exercises that you're relying on might not be the most effective ones to build your arms. (15:45)
- Free weights vs. machines: Which one will build more muscle? (21:40)
- The importance of compound lifts, especially for beginners, in building your arms. (24:10)
- The specific exercises they neglected that when utilized their arms BLEW UP! (26:20)
- Follow a Good Schedule. How often should you be working your arms? The importance of a correctly formulated routine, and what it looks like. (35:00)
- Avoid Plateaus. How to keep building muscle, after you've already increased in size. (39:10)
- Follow a Good Schedule. How often should you be working your arms? The importance of a correctly formulated routine, and what it looks like. (43:00)
- The BEST way to combine supersets to build MASSIVE arms. (50:10)

People Mentioned:

Larry Scott (bodybuilder)
Ben Pakulski (@ifbbbenpak) Instagram

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Transcript

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0:00.0	If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go.
0:06.0	Mite, op, mite, op with your hosts.
0:09.0	Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews.
0:13.0	In this instructional episode of Mind Pump, so Adam and I are in the studio recording without Justin,
0:20.0	because Justin is doing some filming out in the filming studio right now.
0:25.0	And we were sitting down hanging out talking and we're like, what should we record?
0:29.0	What should we talk about? And lately we've been trying to bring it back to the basics.
0:33.0	So if you've been listening to our show for at least the last few months,
0:36.0	you could see that we've been doing these episodes where we talk about how to train your legs or how to do hit training properly or whatever.
0:43.0	So Adam and I were sitting here and we're like, let's talk about arm training.
0:47.0	That's a really, really popular topic.
0:49.0	We talked about that way back in the day when we first started Mind Pump, so we thought we'd revisit it.
0:54.0	Well, you just recently rode a really incredible guide that goes along with it and we're getting a great response.
0:58.0	So it just seems like, okay, well, if we're getting a great response on the Facebook advertising,
1:02.0	so many people are opting in and loving it, we may as well introduce it to our audience on the podcast too.
1:07.0	Now, it's a totally free guide. You can find it at Mind Pump Free.com.
1:11.0	It's called How to Get Big Arms. I also do want to remind everybody it is September,
1:15.0	and we have launched a brand new Maps program.
1:18.0	Maps Strong. Strong man inspired Maps program.
1:22.0	It's great for building muscle, building strength, and boosting your metabolism.
1:26.0	So if you want to fast your metabolism, this is one of the best programs you could do.
1:30.0	All you need is regular gym equipment, by the way. We get a lot of questions of people saying,
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