Is it alright to do arms 5x a week?

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Depends. What is your goal? Think about this, serious runners train by running often, days on end. It's not a problem for their legs, but they don't have huge leg muscles.
So, if you do that with your arms, you can achieve arm strength endurance... which is okay if you are going to do something like rowing. If you want to gain muscle mass, you will want to give your arm muscles a break to recover and grow.
 

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Depends. What is your goal? Think about this, serious runners train by running often, days on end. It's not a problem for their legs, but they don't have huge leg muscles.
So, if you do that with your arms, you can achieve arm strength endurance... which is okay if you are going to do something like rowing. If you want to gain muscle mass, you will want to give your arm muscles a break to recover and grow.

so 3x times a week?
 

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so 3x times a week?
Depends. If you split up your days where one day, you work bicep, another day, you work tricep, and another day, you work forearms. You can do it like that. Or you can work bicep, tricep, and forearms all on the same day. And then, take a day break. The next day you can work all three arm muscle groups again but change up the number of reps, sets completed, and weight used.
 

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Just to give you a heads up, you indirectly work biceps on your back day. So go hard on that bytch
 
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I personally wouldnt do them 5 x a week but I do my Biceps twice a week. With Chest and on arms day. I go light when i do them with chest and heavy on the arms day.

If you do them 5x a week then at some point they will get depleted, and they wont grow to be as big as you may want them to be.
 
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