Training Arms Around The Clock Will Give You Arms Like Popeye
Do you want the truth? The armwrestling technique is focused on the back, biceps, forearms, wrists, and hands. It’s why I got into arm wrestling. Nothing is cooler than ridiculously sized arms gained through the art of armwrestling. If you ever shake hands with an armwrestler, it’s like shaking the hand of someone with a baseball mitt on. So what can you do to get such massive arms like an armwrestler? Practice, training, strict hammer curls, and competition will do it for you.
How Armwrestlers Get Massive Arms
I don’t know if you have ever been at a legitimate armwrestling table: four pads broken into two groups for the elbows/arms, and two metal poles for the opposite arm to grip on each side. Locking up and practicing at one of these tables is one of the most exceptional arm workouts you could ever get. Competing against a friend ensures that by the end of the session, your bicep will cramp up and it will be hard to touch your nose. This is how you know you are doing it right, and introduces you to how the best armwrestlers get such massive arms.
Now armwrestling usually has a best of 3, best of 5, or first-to-three format. Doing those matches against seasoned armwrestlers will have you looking like Popeye in no time.
Why Are Armwrestlers Arms So Massive?
That’s easy. Our muscles adapt to our surroundings. One of the most amazing things about humans and their evolution is their ability for their bodies to adapt to the type of stressors and stimuli they are under. Since armwrestlers pull so much and their arms are subjected to heavy, opposing forces, their arms, and backs have to grow to adapt to the training, competition, and challenge of trying to pull someone else’s arm across the table.
You Can Get Into Armwrestling And Build These Arms
Head on back to my blog and look for the armwrestling training archive as it becomes built. There you will learn and develop the movements and exercises to help you build bicep and forearm strength (which usually means size). Whether it is concentric (the muscle rises to resist the weight), eccentric (the muscle lengthens to resist the weight), or my personal favorite, isometric movements (static holds) that perfectly emulate endurance training for battling arms at the table. You will train so hard you will be able to bend steel like Todd Hutchings…maybe.