12 Surprising and Secret Reasons Why Your Arm Muscles Don’t Grow
You don’t like your arms, and your biceps won’t grow no matter how hard you try. You’ve been lifting for years without success. You don’t get the outcomes you desire. This could be due to a variety of reasons.
Let’s start with the main cause of this that many don’t realize. The little-known secret is that I recommend focusing on your shoulders first; once your shoulders have grown, you can work on your arm muscles. Does it make any sense?
Without strong shoulders, achieving big arm muscles is difficult for many people. This important piece of advice does not occur to many people and they just think they are gonna achieve big arm muscles without focusing and improving their other bigger muscles. Only few genetically gifted people with different body types can have big arms muscles without the support of their other body parts and muscles.
Following this advice leads to not just bigger shoulders but also the larger arm muscles you’ve always wanted.
These are the other 12 reasons why your arms won’t grow.
- You’re not hitting all three heads of the triceps
The triceps consists of three heads: long, medial, and lateral. The longest head is the largest, making your entire arm appear larger.
- You are not eating enough
If you want to build muscle, you must consume more calories than you burn. Your body requires fuel and essential nutrients to build muscle.
- You are not consistent
Consistency is the key to build muscle.
- You are not working out enough or overwork your arms muscles.
- Your shoulder and back muscles are not that big and strong enough to support your bigger arm muscles
- Sleep Quality
You are not getting enough sleep which affects your workout consistency and recovery.
- Poor recovery
It’s pointless to train hard if your nutrition and rest aren’t on point. Your muscles grow when you rest.
- You’re not training with enough volume
It makes sense to increase the volume of your workouts if you want bigger triceps and biceps. Nevertheless, a lot of people disregard the significance of training with volume and believe they can simply keep gaining weight.
- You’re resting too much between sets
There is no need for lengthy breaks in between sets when doing a high-intensity arm workout. Your muscles should have at least 45 seconds to recover after a high-rep set before moving on to another set with the same weight.
10- You’re not varying your exercise order
Muscles that are trained earlier show superior growth
If you’re like most people, you’ll usually train your triceps after working out your chest and delts, and your biceps after working out your back. That is definitely a big error. Why? That’s because studies have continuously demonstrated that early in a workout, muscular growth is optimal in the targeted muscle groups.
11- You’re not resting long enough between sets
In addition to allowing you to expand your muscles to their full potential, hitting two minutes of rest can increase your training volume and strength.
12- You’re not incorporating exercises with different arm angles
You may be overlooking workouts that train your arms from various angles, which is another mistake you could be doing.
If you follow and implement these 12 steps including the secret and main cause I talked about in the beginning, you should hopefully be seeing the bigger and muscular arms you always desire.
Matt M. Eccles is the founder of Vitality and Happiness Blog. He is a philosopher, psychology enthusiast, wellness and digestion expert, author, and world traveler who is passionate about helping others reach and experience optimum health, true happiness, and increased vitality. The purpose of this website is to motivate and inspire people to handle life’s challenges. Uplift and encourage you to succeed in life and be happy and healthy, increase life quality, and become the best version of yourself.