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Why were u talking about the coping pendlay row? Why would I ever do that JFL. You're way too fixated on numbers. You said how much you can curl like??? Why would you progressively overload a muscle group that is more about pump and contraction? You need to give other methods a try and not be so stubborn ngl. I progressively overload pressing movements, squats, leg press, rows etc. I don't track arms, forearms, side delts, chest flies etc. Why would I? Those movements are completely about pump and feeling the movement, not trying to ego lift more weight. You need a mix of both bud otherwise it would be the case that the strongest people are the biggest. This isn't the case. Look at Jay Cutler, Phil etc. Arnold had the best chest ever yet couldn't bench as much as Franco.
The problem is that you are using guys who take steroids as examples of what is achievable naturally when in reality, those guys aren't natural.
You can't use Arnold Schwarzennegger as an example of what is achievable unless you take the same steroids as him and have the same genetics.
Also, even when steroids are involved, strength training makes it so that it takes lower amounts of drugs to achieve the same results, which is why a lot of steroid users nowadays also focus on strength because for the same dose of steroids, they are able to become much bigger.
With the data that we have nowadays, both from scientific studies and statistics, and from people's bodybuilding experience, it is an undeniable fact that a stronger muscle is a bigger muscle, and that applies to all the muscle groups, even the arms.
There is no secret technique to getting bigger arms, all you can do is get stronger while of course, maintaining proper form.
I'm not talking about cheat curls, I'm talking about regular curls done with only the strength of your biceps, without using other muscle groups to make the exercise easier. Ultimately, training to failure is the only way to cause muscle growth as a natural lifter.
What people like you fail to realize is that doing 12 reps with 120 lbs on curls is the same as doing 1 rep with 170 lbs. But the benefit that you get by doing more reps is that you get more volume, and volume is what drives muscle growth.
So, to make progress in the gym, you need:
Progressive overload,
High volume,
Consistent and proper technique,
Good diet,
Good recovery,
and Consistency
Of course, the numbers themselves don't matter, the most important thing is that you train harder than last time, that is what can be defined as real progress, just going to failure with the same weights over and over again, that is not progress, that is sandbagging, it is a waste of time.