It goes without saying that a set of thick and muscular arms tends to stop traffic, bringing looks of terror from men and desparation from women, young and old. While a set of 22’s may be enough to make small children cry, it’s also enough to make your tailor have an aneurism from thinking of opening the arm holes in your suit or finding a way to prevent the bunching above the peak. I hate it when that happens.

Now while doing copious amounts of deadlifts is awesome and one of the surefire ways to end the global financial collapse that’s occurring, the sad reality is that doing deadlifts alone is a poor way to develop any kind of biceps strength or shape. Sure, the fact that biceps are one of the main muscles responsible for providing a compressive force to the elbow to resist against the distractive force of the weight trying to pull the joint apart, and is one of the primary anterior shoulder stabilizers does not go unnoticed. But having the muscle contract in a lengthened position will do only so much over the course of a training lifespan, and may actually lead to an increased risk of tendon rupture compared to if you were to include doing some curls for the girls.

However, the fact that I’ve seen guys with straight pipes for upper arms deadlift a copious amount of weight and then have their medium shirts hang loose around their arms means no one will ever know they lift weights unless they view their Youtube channel.

The same goes for triceps. Seeing as how they make up about 2/3 of the volume of the upper arm when developed in proportion with the biceps, they need some love and attention as well.

While functional training became all the rage a few years back and we saw guys wearing their Five Fingered shoes while walking on the treadmill to be SOOOO proprioceptive, the use of elastics and bosu balls and enough focus on foam rolling and its’ importance for everything from hip mobility to bowel movements, somewhere along the line we forgot that lifting weights was good, lifting heavy weights was better, and having something to show for it at the end of the day was the best thing of all. Sure, having mobility is great and all, but no one looks at a pic of someone and says “Gatt-damn look at all the mobilities on that sumbitch!!!!”

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For most new gym-goers, they can expect to see some good results from the first month or so on any program, as long as they have the intensity and volume in place so they’re not curling the 10’s for 5 minutes and finishing with a brisk elliptical for an hour while watching the Food Network.

For more advanced lifters (advanced being more than say, 5 years of lifting experience), gaining any noticable size or thickness to your arms. This means you typically have to rely on someone who has some different experiences than you do or maybe has achieved the kind of results you’re looking for to get you to that next step.

The problem is that in the day and age of internet charlatans, anyone can set up a website and start pumping out useless and possibly even dangerous information that the average consumer can’t verify if it’s fact or fiction. Considering everyone is still confused about the whole egg controversy (are they good, are they bad, did they come first or did the chicken), it’s understandable how a quality trainer with a good program can get lost above the din of idiocy found on line.

 

That’s why I was really happy to see a buddy of mine, Dan Trink, get the lead out and put together a new product designed specifically to help you get bigger, thicker, meatier, ropier, powerfull-er, Kanye-er arms than ever before.

Dan’s the Director of Training at Peak Performance in midtown Manhattan, one of the top training facilities in North America. He’s also an extremely down to earth yet massive individual, as evident by my recent trip to train and speak at Peak. While Joe Dowdell, the owner of Peak, had me dragging a Prowler around the gym floor for an hour, Dan suggested next time I’m in town we just deadlift and lift other heavy things for an hour. I’m in dude.

Dan also made for a great example in my seminar of how strong a plank could be when it was done correctly when he was volun-told to plank while I had a staff member stand on his back.

The guy knows training for strength, and also training for the kind of muscle that makes people do a double-take in the middle of the street.

So Dan decided to put all this knowledge into a very easy to digest form and came up with his brand new product 2 Tickets to the Gun Show. The name alone should sell you on this product. Seriously, he takes a pun about weight training and turns it into an arm training protocol that will make you get jacked, tanned (possibly) and ready to start tearing into the hearts of on-lookers everywhere.

Here’s some of the details about 2 Tickets, as we’ll call it from now on. It’s a 4 week program that focuses on a high volume, high frequency butt-kicking arm series designed to get you some intense results quickly. The Supercompensation Slingshot™ means that when you get into the end of your fourth week, you’ll have a more dramatic effect on the size, shape and overall development of your arms than on any program you may have ever tried before. It comes with the workout templates in an easy to use Excel format instead of in an unalterable PDF format, which means you can enter weights, reps, etc as you go to keep you on par for the course. Plus, since it’s only 4 weeks long, the commitment level is easy even for today’s ADHD society.

Now since Dan’s the kind of guy who could charge the equivalent of a mortgage payment for an hour of his time in his own private facility, I’m sure you would expect a product like this would be pretty expensive, right. Well, fortunately since he’s looking to get a lot of people jacked up and showcasing ginormous arms, he’s willing to let this little baby go for the first week for only $14.99.

So essentially the same cost as to show up to his gym (on time), bang out a single set of squats, fist pump three times and high five, and you get a done for you, 4 week onslaught of arm awesomeness that will make you look and feel more amazing than you already are.

Ladies, you can get a lot out of this as well. Who has ever said “Oh I don’t like the look of her arms, all toned and solid and stuff. She should try to do more low intensity cardio so the skin hangs loose, or 50 rep sets with the 3 pound dumbbells so that they look thick and have no shape to them.” That’s right, no one ever. And contrary to popular belief, you won’t hulk up by lifting anything with a degree of effort once in a while.

The dreaded “tone” word that most people tend to focus on is a pretty simple definition: strong muscles with a shape and definition and a lower percentage of body fat. Getting toned arms is about having something to show for it, and the only way you’ll get something to show is to build something worth showing off. Don’t be afraid to gain a pound of muscle, especially if it means you have a peak and can rock sleeveless shirts. In the winter. In Canada.

So for the cost of three mocha-chinos, you can get a month of programming that will add muscle, make others swoon at your feet, boost your confidence, end global warming, and ensure Skeletor never defeats He-Man. Okay, maybe not the last two, but how cool would that be if it actually happened? The only way to find out is to get this program, read its’ wordy tomes, and put the plan into action. Because in this situation action is a verb, and verb is a word which means action.

The launch sale is only on until Friday at midnight, so get on it now so someone else can get on your later (ah thank you).

 

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