ARMS ARTICLES
- DR. JOEL SEEDMAN -
Fitting upper body isolation exercises into your training routine can be tricky particularly when you’re looking to emphasize larger compound movements in your lifting program. Here are my favorite ways to crush your arms while saving time and improving functional performance.
For many lifters, the forearms can be one of the most stubborn muscle groups, oftentimes requiring a detailed plan of attack to induce any significant improvements. Here's my outline for maximizing your forearm and grip training.
Most individuals perform dips incorrectly and end up doing harm to their joints and connective tissue. However, by performing dips on the trap bar, the lifter is required to hone in their mechanics and perform them with perfect technique.
Employing accommodating resistance via chains and bands on a variety of tricep and bicep movements does wonders for increasing hypertrophy in the arms as well as overall strength. Here's how to incorporate it in your routine.
12 Unique Exercises to Crush Your Arms
When it comes to arms, it’s easy to fall into a pattern of incorporating the same movements week in and week out. Here are 12 unique movements that will crush your arms via scientifically proven strategies for inducing unprecedented muscle growth. (Read More →)
The Truth About Dips and How to Perform Them
Since most athletes and trainees butcher dips, Dr. Seedman analyzes how to perform dips so they are healthy on the joints and produce incredible strength, size, and muscularity throughout the entire upper body. (Read More →)
6 Unique Kettlebell Exercises to Crush Your Biceps
Kettlebells provide exclusive benefits and unique kinds of biceps stimulation that are difficult to replicate with dumbbells and barbells. Here are six variations of biceps curls for new arm growth. (Read More →)
STACK magazine and Dr. Joel Seedman discuss grip strength, and Dr. Seedman shares his insights on concurrent activation potentiation and irradiation and how they relate to grip, hand, and forearm strength. (Read More →)
8 Unique Kettlebell Exercises for Massive Arms
When it comes to arms, it’s easy to fall into a pattern of incorporating the same movements week in and week out. Here are 8 unique kettlebell exercises that will crush your arms via scientifically proven strategies for inducing unprecedented muscle growth. (Read More →)
Pre-exhaust Dips for Muscular Hypertrophy
Dr. Seedman uses dips to explain why pre-exhaustion and pre-activation should be used to facilitate greater emphasis on specific muscle groups. (Read More →)
Two Kettlebell Exercises to Crush Your Biceps
Kettlebell curls provide exclusive hypertrophy benefits and unique bicep stimulation that are difficult to replicate with other training tools including standard free-weights (barbells and dumbbells). Here are two unique bicep kettlebell curls that are sure to give you newfound arm growth. (Read More →)
If you're looking for a way to spice up your weighted pull-ups, pushups, dips, and inverted rows while also crushing your grip strength, try this double barbell fat grip protocol. Just be prepared for some serious upper body gains.