How You Biceps Can Benefit From Performing Squats

In bodybuilding, it's all about the yin and the yang. Balance is the key to everything. The human body is a total organism, not some loose collection of body parts, despite how they end up being viewed in bodybuilding judging criterion. It's impossible to effectively train some areas but not others, to any meaningful degree. Successful training, nutrition, rest, and supplementation is a collective effort which affects all body parts if it affects any, and one mantra rings true from sea to bodybuilding sea:

If you want big arms, you need to have big legs.

Let's repeat that. If you want to develop a pair of respectable, 19-inch upper arms, you're going to need to develop your quadriceps, hamstrings, and calves to an equal degree. You can walk into any gym in America, and there is a good chance you'll see many bodybuilders with imbalances. Most tend to have better upper bodies than lower bodies. However, the discrepancy is never that major. They'll usually only be 10 to 15% better in one area than another. This is because the body limits the amount of growth which can occur in the arms, for example, until the legs have reached a certain similar point.

Aside from the de facto, practical experience, there is a great deal of data to back up this belief and provide "de jure", or by law, evidence. When a trainer completes squats, the body releases inordinate amounts of IGF-1, or insulin-like growth factor. It also enables the androgen receptors to be, well, more receptive to hormones in the body. The muscle cells in the arms, chest, back, and all other groups were therefore more receptive to hormones in the body, as well as existing in an environment richer in IGF-1, as a result of doing squats.

Finally, you should ask yourself why you would waste the effort to work so hard to develop pats of your physique (arms) while neglecting another part (legs). As mentioned, the amount of discipline in terms of training, nutrition, supplementation, rest, and AAS use required to build a great set of arms would be wasted if leg training was neglected. You'd never gain the respect of any real bodybuilders in your gym, and even non-lifters would tease you about the imbalance of you "twig legs". Finally, if you ever decided to step upon the bodybuilding competition stage, you wouldn't be able to "crush everyone with your upper body". You'd be exposed as the asymmetrical fraud that you are, and the pictures would follow you forever. When upper-bodybuilders diet down, their legs become very small and those pictures are quite permanent.

Be smart. Get the most out of your efforts. The scientific evidence is there, and so is the real-life experience of millions of bodybuilders which have come before you. If you want bigger arms, you need bigger legs. If you want your biceps and triceps to grow, you need to include squats in your training protocol each week. Train balanced, and use the big movements every week, and your arms will be the centerpiece of a balanced, award-winning physique!

Dane Fletcher is the world-wide authority on bodybuilding and steroids. He has coached countless athletes all over the world. To read more of his work, please visit either www.BodybuildingToday.com or www.SteroidsToday.com

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