Three "Rapid Fire"* Routines for Mind-Blowing Arm Growth Garrett Sloan builds his muscular arms with various programs When I started bodybuilding—as I may have mentioned elsewhere on this blog—the first programs that I followed were ones in the "briefer-is-better for massive growth" vein of '80s and '90s training articles. This sort of training was personified by the Mentzer brothers in the '70s and early '80s, and before that was brought to the world primarily through Arthur Jones (who was the person the Mentzer brothers, Mike and Ray, received their inspiration from in the first place). And if, like me, you read a lot of Ironman magazine in the '80s and '90s, then you know that the Mentzers and Jones were influential with other Ironman writers such as Steve Holman, John Little, Stuart Robert, and Richard Winett. (Not to mention Bradley Steiner, even though Steiner wasn't really interested in "HIT" training, but was ju...
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