The trouble with bodybuilding is that there are no professional journals about this topic. The magazines are not what I consider professional journals. There are no journals for gym equipment, either. So I picked a sport and profession that do not have much in the way of literature for everyone. If you go to exercise physiology journals you will find heaps of research about muscles. There is not much there on hypertrophy because the exercise scientists are not interested in this subject very much. For example, I know of no studies examining maximum human hypertrophy. Whether humans can achieve hyperplasia has not been determined but I believe there was some evidence suggesting it might be possible. The trouble here is that guys with huge muscles have not been examined. If any of the top guys had willed their bodies to science we might be able to answer this question. We have had a few big guys die unexpectedly and their bodies would have been valuable for science.
Can Milos get his arms to grow bigger? That is difficult to say. If Milos is an intelligent bodybuilder we would expect that he has already exhausted all the possible protocols, strategies and exercises. I can understand that he is sceptical that others know what he has been unable to discover. Let me state that Milos has large arms but they could be larger and would have helped him win more contests. I saw a photo recently of his calves and they were huge. It suggested that his capacity for hypertrophy is excellent. What I have noticed is that some guys with huge shoulders have trouble getting their arms bigger. I think Luke is another person like this. Perhaps when they train arms they end up using their deltoids and have trouble actually targetting their biceps and triceps. Contrast Lee Priest to these guys and you see someone with huge arms and shoulders not as big in proportion. Heck, Lee's forearms are huge and he doesn't train them directly.
So is there a strategy that will lead to more arm growth in Milos? I really cannot say. It must be possible. I doubt he has tried everything and from looking at his gym I can say he doesn't have some crucial arm machines. Triceps, especially, need special isolating machines to get bigger. What happens is that as heavier weights are used in pressdowns, for example, the tendency is to recruit other muscles to handle those heavy weights. When you use other muscles to help you shift those heavy weights you do not end up with the target muscle growing. I have offered to try to help Luke Wood with his arms but so far he has not taken me up on my offer. I don't see any improvement on Luke's arms from the images many months ago. So Luke and Milos have the same problem with arm size. I may be able to help them and I may not be able to. We will never know if we don't meet and discuss the possibilities.
