Last night I was flipping through an old muscle magazine and I saw a picture of Bill Pettis.

If you don’t recognize the name, Bill Pettis was a bodybuilder who built possibly the biggest arms of his day.

They are rumored to have measured 23 and 1/4 inches. (I say rumor has it because no one really knows if the arm measurements are accurate, as most bodybuilders are prone to inflating the truth a bit.)

But even if you don’t believe the numbers, the pictures don’t lie. Any way you cut it, his arms were HUGE.

And strong too. He could curl 225 pounds and could use a whopping 340 pounds on the standing triceps press.

But what really caught my attention was how he ate:

While most bodybuilders still rely on the six meals a day method, Bill only ate two meals a day. He ate about 3-4 eggs per day and a sizeable helping of bacon, steak, fish, chicken, vegetables and some fruit.

As supplements, I would have some protein powder, brewer’s yeast, and also desiccated liver tablets.

His training was high volume: He would do dozens of sets of heavy barbell curls, along with a lot of triceps work. In fact, he would do about twice as much triceps work as biceps exercises.

The reason? The triceps contain more muscle than the biceps muscle group, so by working the triceps you can increase your overall arm size faster.

You may not be able to build 23-inch biceps like Bill Pettis, but by following the tips in this article, you too can increase your arm size and start stretching out your t-shirt sleeves.