9 WAYS TO CUT WATER WEIGHT AND REVEAL YOUR ABS

Don't let water retention kill your six-pack potential.

1 of 10 SHOWCASE YOUR SIX-PACK

You’ve been working hard, killing your ab workouts, and sticking to your meal plan to reduce that pesky body fat. You’ve even skipped those late night food runs with your buddies, but your abs still aren’t showing. What gives? It could be that your body is holding water. That’s right, subcutaneous fluid stored in your cells, causing your skin to have a puffy, inflated look, and ultimately covering any muscle definition you may have earned.

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7 LITTLE-KNOWN HACKS FOR BIGGER ARMS

5 of 8  SUPERSET

Use these techniques to turn your pistols into cannons

To stimulate arm growth, you’ll need to increase the overall volume for arm training. An easy way to do this without spending three hours in the gym, is by supersetting bicep and tricep routines. This will engorge your arms with blood, delivering tons of nutrients to them. When we perform a tricep movement, we fully stretch out the bicep. When we do a curling movement, we stretch out the triceps; this creates an antagonistic effect that makes training more effective.

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4 of 6  UTILIZE ALL ANGLES

Use these techniques to turn your pistols into cannons

The primary function of your bicep is to lift the forearm toward the shoulders and to rotate the wrist. The primary function of the tricep is to fully extend the elbow. These motions are simple but you want to make sure you're training your arms from all angles. With your biceps, you want to perform curls on an incline and try to get a full stretch. Performing a chin-up or high cable pulleys will hit the bicep from a higher angle. The same goes for triceps; performing an overhead tricep extension will stimulate different heads of the muscle.

Ultimate Angle Workout

1. Incline Dumbbell Curls 4 x 8-10
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3. Bodyweight Tricep Dips 4 x 15-20
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5. Standing Barbell Curls 4 x 6-8
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7. Narrow-grip Bench Press 4 x 6-8
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9. High Cable Pulley Curls 4 x 12
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11. EzBarbell French Press 4 x 12

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7 LITTLE-KNOWN HACKS FOR BIGGER ARMS

 3 of 6 Volume has been shown to have direct correlation with muscle growth. 

3 of 8  INCREASE YOUR VOLUME

This means if you're doing eight sets of arms once per week and are getting no results, you need to up your volume. I recommend adding additional sets on another day a week for arms. I found training arms three times per week has been ideal for growth. An important point is to make sure you slowly walk your volume up over time. Do not just jump into three days per week without slowly increasing your volume otherwise you risk injury.

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7 LITTLE-KNOWN HACKS FOR BIGGER ARMS (2)

2 of 6 USE BLOOD FLOW RESTRICTION TRAINING

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Blood flow restriction training is one technique that works great for the arms. When you restrict blood flow to a muscle, you are forcing blood to pool in the muscle -- giving you an unbelievable pump.

When using blood flow restriction training, we are not allowing blood to escape the veins; arteries however, will continue to deliver blood to the muscle. It sounds like some sort of torture, but by occluding a muscle, you are tricking your body to use large fast twitch muscle fibers, which will result in crazy growth. Another benefit to this type of training is that you will be using 50 percent of your normal weight. This type of training will allow your joints to recover while taxing your body and increasing the size of your arms. Try a superset of triceps and biceps. Use knee wraps high up on the arms and tighten the wraps. You want the wraps tight enough so that it's uncomfortable but not overly painful. You will be using a rope pushdown for triceps and performing standing dumbbell curls for biceps.

The Workout
Tricep Rope Pressdown 1 x 30 (superset with dumbbell curls)
Standing Dumbbell Curls 1 x 30
Tricep Rope Pressdowns 1 x 15 (superset with dumbbell curls)
Standing Dumbbell Curls 1 x 15
Continue you this until you complete three sets of 15 reps, and then pull the tourniquet off.

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7 LITTLE-KNOWN HACKS FOR BIGGER ARMS

 1 of 6T here is nothing more impressive then having huge, muscular arms.

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Arms are one of the first body parts you notice on someone -- a set of big guns demands respect. These eight tips will help you gain noticeable size and definition in your arms, so get ready to purchase bigger shirts!

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