The PERFECT Home Arm Workout (Sets and Reps Included)
Home arm workouts often don’t produce the same results as those workouts performed for your biceps and triceps in the gym. That doesn’t have to be the case however. In this vide, I’m going to give you a complete home workout for arms that is going to help you build bigger biceps and triceps without
What’s up guys, Jeff Cavaliere, athleanx. com. We continue the perfect workout series here today, This time an arm worked out that you can do at home. You see a lot of people think that there’s no real effective arm workout that’s done outside of the gym. But I don’t believe that, as a matter of fact, I’ve just proven it with this workout, as you’re going to see.
And it’s going to be something that either an advanced person or even somebody that’s on the beginner side can do, because I’m going to make separate versions and point out the important differences where they occur. In the meantime, I also want to hype up one thing, I’m going to show you something in this workout that is literally worth the price of subscription. I know it’s free, the point is it’s worth you being a subscriber of mine for all this time because, yes, I do step at night to think of these things to help you guys out. And now in the current environment, I wanted to make sure I can take all the excuses out of it and make the best home workout you could do for your arms. I think we got that done.
A lot to cover here guys, so let’s dive in right now with our first exercise. So we start off this perfect arm workout with our bicep work. And what we do is we take a backpack, this is going to come in so handy, but this is not the big tip yet, we’ll get to that. But you take the backpack load it up with whatever you can, here some books to create some weight. We put it on our back because what I want you to do is start with the king of all bicep exercises, and I’m not talking about the barbell curl, you guys know I love the chin up.
And the chin up is just a great exercise for building your biceps. The underhand supinated grip is going to help to target them really well and we’re adding the overload of our own body. But yes, we can add more and a lot of us need that. So what I want you to do is add enough weight that gets you in that six to eight rep range before you reach failure. Again, that could be not that much weight for a lot of you guys because the chip itself could be challenging.
But if you have the need for more weight, you can easily pack it in the backpack and acts like a weighted vest. So you do three to four sets here of this exercise. Now we do the bicep chin up. So what we do is we drop the weight for this and we change the way that we perform the chin up. You see, the bicep chin up is done to actually almost recreate a curl of your body to the bar.
Instead of curling a bar up towards you, you curl your body up towards the bar. So it requires opening the angle as you see here, allowing the elbows to come out and spread that angle out wider and then narrow it down as I come up. Again, I’m literally trying to curl my body towards the bar and you can see the contraction here that we get on the biceps. So what we do here is we do two to three sets of this to failure. We don’t have a prescribed rep range on this because I don’t know how many you can do.
But what I want to ensure that you do is train hard so by taking it to failure, we can make sure we get that done. We move on to the third exercise here in the workout in, this is the Waiter’s Curl. Now, you guys saw Jesse do this in a single video, he did this for thirty days. And it is a great exercise and what it’s doing is it’s allowing you to actually get peak contraction on the biceps and minimize the contribution of the forearms to the curl. A lot of people tend to dominate the curl by allowing the wrist to curl too much and they let the forearms do too much of the work but with the backpack and utilize the straps to just keep your hands rested underneath it.
And the goal is to keep your hands parallel to the ceiling all the way up throughout the entire curl. So as I get to the top, you can see that my forearms are actually taken out of it by having the wrist bent backwards. The peak contraction that you’re going to feel on this is amazing and a lot of it has to do with the fact that you’re not just getting elbow flexion and supination, but you’re getting a little bit of that shoulder flexion as well. So we do this for two to three sets, again, focusing on really hard contractions at the top. And we move on to our final exercise here in the bicep portion of the perfect home arm workout, and that is with the lip buster curl.
So now the big tip comes out. You see, if you take this backpack and you take out one other implement that I’ve showed you is so helpful when you’re training in the home environment and it’s a dog leash. And like I said back then, I don’t care if you don’t have a dog, you can get a couple of leashes. But when you have them, you simply do what I’m doing here you wrap one around this strap, they wrap one around this trap. And we do as you take those straps, you put them up and over your pull up our home.
Now, you’ve literally created a cable machine, like you can do cable exercises here. Don’t worry, we’re going to cover a whole lot of them over the course of the different workouts we do at home here in future videos. But for now, to target those biceps, we can do the lip buster curl. You see, we have the opportunity now to get our arms up into that shoulder flexion and then create that peak contraction with the elbow flexion and the supination. We can get that bicep into a really tight contraction.
And we burn them out here, the rep range is higher, 12 to 15, even a little higher, up to 20. And as soon as we’re done with this, we actually stop right there, jump up to the bar and do one last negative, hang. We isometrically try to hold as long as we possibly can, we fight it, we fight it, we fight it and we know that the last thing we got to hit is that one negative, eccentric contraction, try to elongate that contraction so we can’t hold that anymore and that’s our failure. And we just do that two to three times to finish out that portion of the workout. Now, for the beginners out there doing this workout, there’s only two of the exercises I just showed you that might require some modification, and those are the chin ups in the bicep chin ups.
So what you can do is a chin up from the floor, which is going to be a lot easier, but still challenging. And then we have the chin curl that we could substitute for the bicep chin up. Both of these will allow you to do the same thing, train in the same parameters, but just substitute those two exercises out and you’re good to go. Now we move on to the tricep portion of the workout and we start once again with our bigger, heavier compound exercise. and the dip, the upright dip.
And I had the opportunity once again to weight this with the same backpack, put on my back in the same way, to do the dip with just a couple of chairs. Again, I showed you another way to do this by utilizing a corner in your kitchen and this works so well. But if you don’t have that, if you just have straight countertops, the back of two chairs would work just fine. Bend your knees outward pressure on your hands, push down and out of the chair so they don’t go anywhere. And you can do your dips just like this.
I mentioned upright because the more upright you stay, the more you shift the focus away from the chest and more to the triceps, which is the goal of the exercise. And again, if you can’t do the weighted version here, you can either just take the weight off and do them the same way or you can just put your feet down. Here is more of a beginner to take off some of that weight and do the exercise in very much the same way. Here we’re going for t