Building this much muscle on your arms is now a REALITY. Prepare to hate yourself for the time you wasted doing 1,000′s of curls.

Saturday, May 25, 2013 I‘ve had enough.

It seems that everybody these days is jumping on the latest magical fitness phenomenom. I can’t go outside without hearing words like functional training, CrossFit, metabolic training, or P90X.

Before you get sucked into a trend — think back and try to remember why you got into strength training to begin with. Didn’t you dream of packing on slabs of muscle? Or a ton of strength? Or maybe you were like me and really wanted to get big, veiny, sleeve tearing, girl seducing arms.

Welcome to the Arm-Ageddon My Friend

My name is Dan Trink and I’m the Director of Personal Training at one of America’s top 10 gyms as chosen by Men’s Health, proud holder of too-many-certifications-too-mention and writer for too-many-magazines-too-count.

I also happen to have enormous arms. Aside from the Mr. Clean jabs, I get asked by dudes like yourself everyday how I got my physique.
But it wasn’t always this way. In fact, I used to be a soft, fat guy; The weight room saved my life.

At 28 years old, I was 50lbs overweight working as a creative director for an ad agency — I needed a change — so, in the four months leading up to my wedding, I lost 51lbs.

It wasn’t until I looked at the pictures from my honeymoon that I thought, “this still isn’t what I want to look like; I’m not fat anymore but I still look like crap.”
I read everything I could on working out and nutrition. I put in tons of hard work and it paid off. My doctor even asked me if I was on steroids. (I wasn’t and never have been.)

I did all of this before I trained a single person. I always figured you had to ‘walk the walk’ before telling others what to do. Now my guns have become a part of me. Everywhere I go it seems to be a show. I catch girls looking up from their phones (probably texting their boyfriends) to check out my sleeve popping, vein bursting, should-be-illegal gun show.

Are You Going to Win the Arms Race?
Take any 100 guys that walk into a gym, follow them, and check back in 5 years. You would be lucky to find more than 5 still making progress.
That’s 5%! Meaning 95% either fail or plateau.

How do the 5% do it? They know the importance of finding a great program and sticking to it. These 5% understand the need to progress in their workouts. They know that doing the same thing, the same way, over and over again will stop yielding results.

The Problem: Why You’re Missing the Train to Swolesville
In order to get to Swolesville you need to stop making the same mistakes that most guys make. Personally, I can’t walk into the gym without seeing the following:
Dudes doing the same arm workout they learned from a fitness mag in high school.
Guys doing 4 different exercises for the same muscle for the same amount of reps from the same angle.

The functional trainer who says that he never does direct arm training because we never use our biceps and triceps in isolation. (I got news for you. We didn’t walk into the gym to be functional. We came into the gym to get jacked so we can get laid.)

The inevitable pump set of biceps curls as an afterthought after the workout is done.
Cheating through every rep of every set.
I don’t know about you but I always dreamed about having big arms. The type that would make my friends jealous and have girls turning their heads. So, after 100s of clients, over 142 research papers, and putting myself through all kinds of torture, I cracked the code.

The Solution: How to Book Your 2 Tickets to the Gun Show
There are 5 key factors that are involved in this program:
Volume. The total amount of work. There must be a sufficient amount of stimulus to provide muscle growth.

Variety. Utilizing different exercises, angles, grips, and positions leads to the greatest amount of muscle damage.
metabolic Distress. Incomplete rest periods provide the proper hormonal environment to stimulate growth.
Time Under Tension (TUT). The speed at which you lift and lower the weight is critical to booking your tickets to the gun show.
Supercompensation Slingshot™. The true secret which I’m going to reveal to you… right now.