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This has been mentioned here before several times, but it's worth repeating. People looking to bulk up *need* to realize how important the big lifts like deadlifts and squats are. You won't release the growth hormones that those do just by doing concentration curls and cable curls. The big lifts MAKE you grow.

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Agreed. I basically CANNOT get more than extremely trivial muscular growth in my upper body unless I do squats or deadlifts. And I seem to get much more growth from the deadlifts. If I don't do one of those two exercises, the most I will get is firm and defined muscles that get VERY slightly larger over many, many years.

P.S.: I found that deadlifts alone, even without a stomach program of any kind, were enough to get me almost all the way to six-pack abs. And that was WITH eating so much I was sometimes nauseous, in an effort to bulk up. The hormonal stimulus can be just that much!