How to get bigger arms without weights?

[Anonymous]

Don't have access to a gym. How many, how often and if there's any specific diet changes I should do would be helpful

[TheGoodTheBadTheHOT]

I'm going to start off by saying, don't be a curl monkey. Work your body, not just your arms.

Now for an answer;

- pushups.

•wide stance (arms far apart, fingers pointing outwards at 90degrees to body.) this does bicep, tricep, chest and back

• normal, does mostly chest, but arms will take a pounding as well. (do it on your fists, saves the wrist)

•side stance, arms tucked in at the sides as much as possible.

- tricep dips, get a chair or something. (google the actions)

A guy you might find helpful - link

If you have anywhere you can do pullups then chin up's are brilliant. Despite the name, your chin doesn't have to go above the bar so don't squirm and throw yourself about risking injury, just get a good squeeze.

Another thing. If you want big arms - work triceps more than biceps. They are a MUCH larger muscle than the bicep and normally respond well to training.

Something I've noticed recently that's paramount to mass building is timing. I personally do '10 second reps' (5 up, 5 down. 7-10 in a set, hit 10, move the weight up) with press-ups just throw in more sets instead of upping the weight.

As for diet, there's not much apart from eating healthily. There is no 'miracle diet' for mass gain. It's slow and tedious.

[Anonymous]

You don't need dumb bells to get a weight lifting routine. You can use bottles of water, scrap metal, or just over heavy sh*t. Bags of sand work great.

But in the end, if you still don't have access to heavy stuff, you can do body weighted exercises like push ups, pull ups, and the Planche.

For push ups, do them with your hands closer together works the arms; further apart works the chest.

For the Planche, make some parallettes because you're going to kill your wrists if you do it on the ground.

[Anonymous]

Diet doesn't build muscle, but a healthy diet can aid in building muscle provided you are doing appropriate exercises to build up your muscle mass. A balanced diet helps provide the building blocks for muscle and other tissue, training the muscles uses those building blocks to strengthen and improve the muscles. Proper diet without the exercise will not build muscle, and working out without the balanced nutrition may cause burnouts, the weakening of the less used muscles cause the body has to take the building blocks from somewhere.

[madmisskelly]

Diet changes won't make your arms bigger but it will limit the amount of body fat overall.

To make the muscles bigger without a gym, try resistance exercises- pushups, pullups, etc. If you can, invest in some free weights, which you can find at the salvation army or online for cheap.

[temptationfalls]

There's plenty of things you can do without weights. Start doing body weight exercises, pick up something and use it to work out. Hell, even rocks can work. Get creative. books, jugs/containers filled with water. Just eat right. Tons of protein and exercise.

Something you could take to get a little bigger (but you won't be stronger and your muscles might look jiggly and mushy) is creatine. Careful though. It hardens your heart if not taken properly.

[Brando]

Muscle build comes from challenging and using your muscles so you have to donsomething. You don't need a gym, just do some kind of hard labor or do at home workouts like pushups, find things to press, etc.

[FierceMegan]

You have to do a lot of heavy lifting. Be resourceful, try using the things around you to lift some weights.

[curiouschica]

You can always lift milk cartons! That's what my brother used to do! Or do pushups/pullups!

[Caustic_Fox]

you don't get big arms without weights. you can however make them bigger than they are now. like its been said before dips and chins.

but don't be that guy.

[funkadelic5]

If you eat lots of carrots and watermelon your biceps will be HUGE

[raptor]

All hail the mighty pushup!

[calichick]

swim

[Anonymous]

lots and lots of pushups

[Ezmotts]

p90x.