Back or biceps first

[moya]

if you are new to lifting, you shouldnt even waste your time isolating the biceps...
back first... always.

 

[oxymoron]

if I did bi's first there would be no possible way to push my back very hard. every good back exercise is compound.

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[tryna get hench]

Back first. However I find that after back my biceps are exhausted and fatigue so I cant hit it as hard. I therefore do chest and biceps, back and triceps.
I train the part of the arm which is not being exhausted from the bigger body part workout

 

[RickRock13]

Always do your larger muscle groups first. In this case Back first makes perfect sense. It will fatigue your biceps by doing back first, so when you get to the bicep exercises you won't be able complete as much weight or reps as when they are fresh. However....bicep growth really comes mostly from your compound back movements like rows anyways, so you should be hitting back hard if you want growth there

 

[JoJo1980]

Why the hell anyone would fatigue their biceps before doing back is beyond me.

 

[BBR100]

I usually do back/tris and chest/biceps so that my tri or bis are stronger.

Is this a mistake or like everything else, just keep changing it up?

 

[the_alcatraz]

In my opinion you bust the shit out of your back first because it's the bigger muscle and you are using Bi's to do back anyway and then when your back is torched you finish off what's left of your Bi's. Just my 2 cents. And it makes a lot of sense too if you just think about it.

that's the conventional way of looking at things...if you do your weaker muscle or lagging muscle first, it will develop much faster

 

[JoJo1980]

that's the conventional way of looking at things...if you do your weaker muscle or lagging muscle first, it will develop much faster

Makes sense but I think if you blast your bi's before back your back workout will suffer and more often than not when doing bi's the back isn't getting much work, whereas when your ate blasting back you are hitting bi's too. Once back is scorched most of the time bi just need a set or two to be totally exhausted as well. Just my opinion though

 

[RickRock13]

If you kill your back workouts and have plenty of compound movements, you won't have lagging biceps to worry about.

 

[JoJo1980]

If you kill your back workouts and have plenty of compound movements, you won't have lagging biceps to worry about.

Exactly