FT Questions....

[Scott Stevenson]

Altamir,

Great questions.

WRT arms: How much weight have you gained?...

Also, if you consider arms to be a weak point, they may be growing in unison with everything else, but you simply perceive them to be lagging in growth but they "lag" in general, so you're sensitive to arm size.

You could do that for chest, but chest is a common one to have lag in gains and also lose strength the most when dieting down. I suspect this is because most guys have focused on chest training and strength over the years (or simply train harder with chest vs. other muscle groups) and this phenomenon reflects the law of diminishing returns. I would first start by putting in exercises that you don't normally do or adding variations on the ones you do:

E.g., Use bands or chains for BB presses.
Use DB Presses as a compound exercise for chest.
Use bands in HS machines for presses.
Come up with brand new exercises for muscle rounds and progress on those.

Also, simply switch the order of your exercise in your Loading sets, putting isolation exercises first if you haven't been (or vice versa) and then progress forward with those #s in your log.

(I agree - the bottom line is growth here. )

-S