Saturday, November 1, 2008

Bodybuilding Tips, How to Get Huge Biceps

By Ricardo d Argence

In the gym, the arms are more worked out, then the chest or other parts of the body. Since guys want the sleeves of their shirts to fit a little tighter, they will work them to death. It feeds them a sensation of assurance and the females apparently like a guy with large guns coming out of his shirt.

Now I'll instruct you in the way to work out your biceps, which are simply the pair of muscles that connect at the elbow joint and extend upward to your shoulder muscle as well as under it.

A barbell curl is the most basic exercise to be done. When using an EZ-curl bar or straight bar ensure that you begin with your feet spread shoulder-width apart. You need to take an underhand grip about shoulder width apart also. Use a mirror to make sure that your body, including the wrists, elbows and shoulders, are in alignment.

Start with the bar full extended, and raise the bar up to your chin by curling your arms up, but keeping your elbows still. At the top of the movement, squeeze your biceps to get a strong contraction. Make sure to keep your wrists locked the entire time, because if you let your wrist bend, you can easily hurt yourself. This is the main exercise for building mass in the biceps. I would do this exercise first in my workout, and use heavy weights. Remember to always warm up with a lightweight for one or two sets before going heavy.

If you want to use heavier weights the best exercise you can implement in your routine is alternate standing dumbbell curls. This excercise can be really usefull to shape up your biceps

Only one difference in technique occurs between this method and bar curls. At the motion's pinnacle, rotate your hand in such a way that your pinky finger is positioned higher than your thumb. Try practicing it with no resistance. This is what will give you that extra peak that all the pros have. Its not easy to do, but, it will tighten your abs so much your friends will envy you.

Good isolation exercise for your guns with an EZ-bar that curls with preacher bench. Since you are only using your biceps, you will find that you don't have as much strength as you want when you are doing this exercise. Also, if you did the two sets of exercises the proper way, you should be very tired right now.

Position yourself with your chest against the bench and drape your arms over the angled pad. Grab the EZ curl bar with an underhand grip. Curl the weight up and contract your biceps as hard as you can. Lower slowly, being careful not to let the bar stress your elbows at the bottom of the movement. This exercise will place added stress on your lower biceps area.

This program is only a portion of a fitness plan, you can see on my website for more information. - 15485

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