Everyone here at some point of time must have desired of strolling in their street block, flaunting their shredded or buffed biceps & triceps bulging out from their tank tops. Wait, but only desiring such scenario wonât help much. You got to work and earn them in the first place.
Besides giving you a charismatic look, arms are also a parameter to show how powerful you are. They are in fact the most versatile organs of your body as they provide assistance in all your basic daily activities and help in almost all the upper body workouts as well.
Sportskeeda is here with articles and blogs comprising of arm workout tips and the anatomy of the forearms, biceps and triceps, their function and location in the body.
The human arms are divided into 2 basic regions namely upper arms and forearms, both are connected by vital elbow joint and the latter end of forearm is connected to the hand by wrist joint.
Starting with the upper arms, it is divided into 2 main subdivisions- anterior compartment, located in front of your humerus and posterior compartment, located behind the humerus.
Anterior compartment: This region has 3 main muscles-
Posterior compartment: This section of upper arm is made up of 2 muscles-
Now comes the forearm section. This region has muscles overlapped in layers and divided into basically 2 compartments namely posterior and anterior, alike the divisions in the upper arms.
Anterior compartment: This comprises mainly of 3 layers- superficial, intermediate and deep layer, in the order as the name suggests.
Posterior compartment: This section of the forearms comprises of only 2 layers- superficial and deep, but the constitution in these layers is more complicated and intense as compared to its anterior counterpart.
This was the anatomy of our arm. Sportskeeda will make sure that you develop each muscle of the arm by penning effective workout tips, which if followed, will bear guaranteed results.