A lot of people get carried away with working just arms in the exercise sessions. People think that if they just work arms in one session, then that’s going to give them incredible arms.
Most people don’t realise that you work biceps and triceps in most things you do anyway.
The purpose and reason for your biceps in movements terms is to bend your elbows while you help your upper back muscles in any kind of pulling motion.
Anyone who has done weights will know that you can pull from overhead, if you are in a climbing motion, or if it is in front of you, as in kind of a rowing motion.
The reason for your triceps is to straighten your elbow whilst helping your chest and shoulder muscles in a pushing motion.
You can push overhead, such as putting something like a box on a shelf, or you can push out from your chest such as pushing a car which needs jumpstarting again.
If you think about what your muscles are really for, you will be far more likely to benefit from motions and exercises that are going to really benefit you in everyday life.
Its not often that you do a bicep curl in everyday life, or a tricep pushdown come to think of it?
This is not to say that these exercises are useless, in fact they are very beneficial.
Just realise that in most exercises, you work a number of exercises in one go, and this is why whole body workouts in one workout are very demanding, but will get a whole lot more done for you as regards increasing strength and burning body fat, and giving you everyday strength you can use in real life.
A lot of the new stuff in the gym helps you become far more functional ready for all of life’s movements that you do regularly, and the ones that surprise you.
