best workout to peak your biceps

[dEgeNeRaTe8211]

i really want some peakin bis. currently i have access to dumbells and barbells. for time convenience, i've been using the barbell...but which is better?

 

[sysopt]

Use which ever one you feel more comfortable using. One is not better than the other.

 

[Belial]

Just backing up sysopt. Sometimes, the right answers eventually get overshadowed by a dozen wrong ones.

 

[gymtime]

More pre-damage control for sysopt. This should be a sticky too sys!!!

 

[sysopt]

thanks dudes...just trying to weed out the shiat. Maybe I should change my name to trushseeker69

 

[Thaibox]

1000 push-ups a day oughta do it.

 

[sysopt]

1000 push-ups a day oughta do it.

LOL, yeah and if you do em wide it'll stretch out your bi's and fill in that gap.

 

[Belial]

Just for degenerate's benefit, I felt it was worth mentioning that the mockery is directed towards someone else, not at her.

 

[needsize]

I may get flamed for this but that woudn't be anything new lately, anyway you can't change the shape of your bicep, but I do believe you can emphasize certain areas of it. I never used to have a peak to my biceps, but since I started preacher curls and incline dumbell curls a few years back, I have grown a noticable one. Basically though, the bigger your bi's get, the bigger the peak will be.

 

[sysopt]

I may get flamed for this but that woudn't be anything new lately, anyway you can't change the shape of your bicep, but I do believe you can emphasize certain areas of it. I never used to have a peak to my biceps, but since I started preacher curls and incline dumbell curls a few years back, I have grown a noticable one. Basically though, the bigger your bi's get, the bigger the peak will be.

I had a good peak before ever working my bi's, they simply got bigger. Generally, when it gets bigger, the "defects" become less noticeable.

 

[Travbedaman]

Exactly! If you have flat Bi`s (like me) you cannot do anything to make them peak, however making them grow bigger will help them look better.

 

[MrMuscle]

huh? you cant work on your peak? maaaan

try this biceps workout

barbell curls
incline dumbbell curls
hammer curls

you work your whole biceps..its nothing new..but it works

 

[buff600]

hate to say but, if you dont have a peak going already, it aint goin to happen no matter how hard you hammer away at your bis. you cant change the genetic shape of a muscle.look at coleman 10 years ago, sure his muscles were smaller,but the shape of them is the same then as it is now.

 

[Mike P.T.]

exactly shape of your arms are determined by genetics. i still laugh when some of the big guys in my gym tell me that people have to do this and that to change their biceps and give it that nice peak. they say thats how they built em. sure it may seem like that because added mass gives it a slightly different shape but basically all u can do is make the muscle larger. if u werent blessed with the peaks. then your not gonna have em no matter what u do

 

[bignate73]

CARDIO!

hehe, remove the fat from between the biceps and the deltoids, and accentuate the shape you already have.

 

[k1401]

Genetics do play a role, but....the tell tale sign will come for the exercise choices. If you never work on any "peaking" excersises, how do you know what your predisposed shape will be?
I have long biceps, but if I spend the time and focus on peaking excersises they'll peak.

 

[CrystalChick]

What about 21's? just curious


CC

 

[sysopt]

No one has ever changed the shape of a muscle by doing a certain exercise. 21's suck ass

 

[CrystalChick]

21's

I was wondering I was told that they do help
Suck Ass hummmmm

 

[sysopt]

Why would you wanna use partial range of motion? You can not work a muscle well if it's loaded with lactic acid and has no ATP. Supersetting in my opinion pretty much sucks and shouldn't be used very often

 

[FitnessFrk]

genetics..you can't change the shape of a muscle only the size. if you have been training hard for years and don't have a really disctinct peak, don't sweat it because it wasn't meant to be. if all you had to do was a certain exercise everyone would have bicep peaks like Mike Matarazzo.

 

[bignate73]

Supersetting in my opinion pretty much sucks and shouldn't be used very often

youre missing the point of a superset then.

the point is not to tax the prime movers twice, the point is to tax prime movers first, then work the stabilizers when they are fatigued.

its a different way of training. maybe not for hypertrophy per se, but then again periodization is not a bad word for bodybuilders. since the key to bodybuilding is adaptation, different training styles need to be incorporated to continue progressing. 80% of max for 8-12 reps doesnt work year round.