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There are 11 Muscles in the forearm. 4 below the chest, 6 in the upper arm being the bicep. In order for you to target all of these with isolated workouts you would have meticulously employ strange exercise forms, unnecessary fatigue, and waste time on muscles that simply don't deserve it. These "strange exercise forms" will most likely be difficult to take to failure without injury.
The second photo, which is admittedly fictional has a more aesthetic body than arnold, not because its fake, but because of low bodyfat and theoretical hypertrophy of these "smaller muscles."
I AM going to employ poor form on forgiving exercise and try my best to bias my training towards compound lifts for this reason. I am against american isolation hypertrophy training. The only other group of people i've seen actually train this way are the chinese. Some of who try to employ the whole upper body when doing basic things such as bicep curls. This of course allows you to lift more, but it also passively hits the chain of these little muscles in your body which are for the most part untargeted.
These smaller muscles then "bottleneck" the larger muscles and prevent hypertrophy from properly being stimulated until they are strong enough. This effectively ensures a smaller but more well proportioned, chiseled, and functional physique than being a mass monster.
I believe this is a more "natural" way of lifting than standard isolation and produces a more aesthetic physique when done correctly.
So, "good but POOR form" over good form. it should be noted that this doesn't mean cheating your body out of the acute stress response by doing something retarded like momentum pullups or straining your neck over the bar.
the recruitment of multiple muscle groups also shocks the CNS similar to doing legs most likely to a lesser degree. The importance of the CNS as already been stated as the brain is part of it. Good 4 mental health see, mechanical depression
lifts should be simple and focused on eccentric/drop sets as thats where more than half the workout comes from. the more complex the easier the risk of injury
TLDR; functional aesthetics over mass, full body stress over isolation