If you haven’t or you don’t know Greg is, he’s a guy from the Northeast that injected his arms with unbelievable amounts of Synthol in an attempt to make them look all swole.
As you might imagine he looks like some sort of circus freak – one look and you can see that no biceps workout gave him arms like that. He claims that he used local injections of steroids into his arms to get those giant biceps, but anybody who has followed bodybuilding or has worked out themselves for any length of time will know that you have to use something totally and completely artificial to get results like that.
Well we’ve established that we don’t want to look like him. But what do we want to look like? How about fit, athletic, strong and proportional?
Proportionality or symmetry is the key to a good looking physique. And even though this website is all about getting big biceps, we still need to keep them proportional to the rest of our body. So what do we mean by proportional? Here are the normally accepted guidelines:
Neck, biceps and calves all the same size.
Chest at least 8 inches larger than your waist.
Your quads should be smaller than your waist. (If you don’t think it’s possible to have legs larger than your waist, you’ve never seen a picture of Tom Platz.)
Normally you won’t have a problem with your biceps getting too big for the rest of your body. In fact of course, the reverse will be the case, however carefully you structure your biceps workouts. But it can happen. Take this as a warning to keep your whole body, your whole physique in mind when training. I would bet that if you work out at the gym of any size, you will be able to look around next time you’re there and see somebody with large well-defined arms and a puny chest. Or maybe his entire upper body will be properly developed but his legs looked like pipe cleaners.
If you’re careful, and give it some thought you shouldn’t have any problems putting another a routine that includes your biceps workout and triceps workouts in conjunction with the plan to build the rest of your body in an attractive and symmetrical way.