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Weights for curls

What can you barbell curl with semi decent form.

  • less then 95

    Votes: 29 27.4%

  • 95-115

    Votes: 29 27.4%

  • 115-135

    Votes: 21 19.8%

  • 135-155

    Votes: 17 16.0%

  • over 155

    Votes: 10 9.4%
  • Total voters
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Everyone I know who wants to know how strong someone is asks the same question....How much do you bench. I guess thats because that is the only real refrence point number people have in their head. Most people don't know what a good squat or DL weight is. My problem is that I don't know what a good barbell curl weight is. No one ever mentions how much they curl. I guess its easy to cheat a bit in curls, so the numbers can be a bit off.

So, what is decent curling weight on the barbell?? I am able to do 135 for a decent rep, a little arching. No idea if that is low or decent.
 
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i never curl and have proportionately small arms (not bodybuilding) and i've curled 135 (barbell) without cheating to see if i could about a year ago. I train a lot of low-rep sets so my 1rm in a given exercise is usually way more than what i can double or triple. I think curls are really hard to standardize. there are a million ways to cheat. and the point of isolation exercises like that isn't the weight you can handle but the stress on the muscle. I think the weight will vary a lot. compound movements are better ways to measure strength imo especially if you compare them to the lifter's bodyweight.
 
I have strong biceps in comparision with the rest of me
and I believe 155 (very strict) is my actual max
I'd be over that with what could count as decent form I think but I voted in the 135-155 range to be safe
 
A good way to see how much you can curl is stand with your back against the wall then perform your curl. The result may suprise you.
 
A good way to see how much you can curl is stand with your back against the wall then perform your curl. The result may suprise you.
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That would be like keeping your back flat on a bench and feet up while benchpressing.
 
thelion2005 said:
Or ... on an incline with no leg assistance.
If you can curl 75 dbs on a 30 degree incline, you are STRONG!
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Explain please. Are you talking about spider curls? I do those as my last exercise in my bi workout and do over 85 lbs for 12 reps. I'm not that strong.
 
eat big said:
Explain please. Are you talking about spider curls? I do those as my last exercise in my bi workout and do over 85 lbs for 12 reps. I'm not that strong.
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I'm talking about:
- sitting on a bench that has a back angled at 30 degrees
- a dumb bell in each hand with the arms extended towards the ground
- slowly curling the db's up to the delts and then back to the start position
- from 5-8 reps

I'd say if you can do this with 75's, you are strong! And I'd estimate at least an 18' arm.
 
thelion2005 said:
I'm talking about:
- sitting on a bench that has a back angled at 30 degrees
- a dumb bell in each hand with the arms extended towards the ground
- slowly curling the db's up to the delts and then back to the start position
- from 5-8 reps

I'd say if you can do this with 75's, you are strong! And I'd estimate at least an 18' arm.
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Oh fuck no. No way I can do that. 75lbs total or each arm? Biggest guy I've ever seen did concentration curls with 65.
 
Barbel curls for one rep?

185 is about as heavy as one strict rep.

135 x 20 reps with the first ten strict and the last 5 downright sloppy!

For one arm hammers, I've hefted up the 100's, but that's a whole different ball game.

For the seated incline dumbell curls, I've done 75's x 6.

I watched Ian Harrsion (at 275 5% BF) doing 10 strict inc dumbell curls with 88lbers, drop them, pick up the 75lbers do 4-5 more, then pick up a pair of 66's and fire up 4-5 more before cheating out as many as 10 reps again per side.
 
I bet that was a lot of burning discomfort in his biceps..
I've hammer curled 120 lbs for 5 reps in what I'd call cheat curls but most people would pass as a solid hammer
I've gotten 90 or 95 for a very strict hammer curl rep because I wanted to see how much cheating I was doing I was pretty pleased
I've Concentraion curled 75-85 lbs with good form
 
Best curls for me are:

BB 175x5
DB one arm 85lbs
DB hammer 100'sx6
Preacher curl 220x6

This is when my arms were 22" before I hurt my elbow. I am getting back to it pretty fast though arms are up to 20.5" from 19.5".

Cheers,
Scotsman
 
Scotsman said:
Best curls for me are:

BB 175x5
DB one arm 85lbs
DB hammer 100'sx6
Preacher curl 220x6

This is when my arms were 22" before I hurt my elbow. I am getting back to it pretty fast though arms are up to 20.5" from 19.5".

Cheers,
Scotsman
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Wowzas.
 
for a 1rm, no idea.. my shoulders would yell at me. I can't bb curl without pain :(

90's for good form hammer style for 12-15 reps is the most I've done.
 
I don't train arms.
 
Holy god there are some very strong curlers here. I suck & have always sucked, but a few years ago I got into them for awhile. I use the EZ-bar but stand against a wall, starting with the bar against my legs focusing exclusively on starting the rep without any swing; also, strictly keeping the elbows at my side/as much in the original starting position as possible. The best I've done on this is 149 for 1 rep. My goal was to break 155 which was the record mark in my high school many moons ago performed by this beast who shattered 315 on the bench press when he was in 9th grade/14 years old. By the time he graduated high school he was pretty gigantic so I figured if, even as an adult, I could approach his curl mark, given that I suck at curls, I'd be somewhat happy.

But I highly doubt I'll ever approach 200 let alone more on a strict curl. Jesus.
 
Man this 5x5 I am doing is really upping my curls also. I could do like 135 or a bit m0re before I started for a rep. I just did 135 for 5 good reps yesterday!! I feel like I am on the juice, but I never touched the stuff. I am amazed as I only do 2 sets of curls total for my arms during the week. I think I was overtraining my arms before. I used to do 12+ sets for biceps, way too much now that I look back.
 
ive gotten 135 with decent form, but my curls seem to change daily. some days im prolly as week as 125 and others perhaps as strong as 140. 140 i have gotten though on ez-bar. my form isnt that strict in any of the curls, but im not that concerned because i dont plan on competing anyway. anything i do would be passable though
 
I never have tested my 1RM on curls, but one thing I pride myself on is that I do curls more properly than anyone I've ever seen. I always have someone monitor me while I do curls also and tell them to make sure I am using no momentum, to make sure the sides of my arms never leave the sides of my torso, and to make sure I keep my back perfectly straight, and to make sure I drop the bar all the way down until the barbell touches my legs preventing my arms from straightening out any further before I bring the bar back up.

I was at the gym a while back and one guy wanted to try doing curls the way I do them (that is - the proper way), so he had me show him how to do them right and he couldn't curl even ONCE half of the weight that he normally "curls" for EIGHT.
 
I trained my biceps for the first time in a long time the other day. It was after a big back workout. I think I did 10 sets involving db curl, reverse bb curl, bb curl, and hammer curls. My arms were very sore for the next two days.

Is it bad to lift biceps more than once a week? I know with smaller muscles like calves and abs you can work them more than once a week, but I remember hearing something about overtraining biceps with more than once.
 
Your either all beasts or are hitting the juice. Some of the weight people are describing is what you'd see in flex or muscle mag with the pro body builders doing them.
 
mekannik said:
Damn, I thought I was the only other one. Also, I do not train eyebrows or temples.
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The last time someone asked me how strong I was they asked about my 1RM squat and then moved on to deadlifts. Curls and bench never entered the conversation.
 
Micker said:
Everyone I know who wants to know how strong someone is asks the same question....How much do you bench. I guess thats because that is the only real refrence point number people have in their head. Most people don't know what a good squat or DL weight is. My problem is that I don't know what a good barbell curl weight is. No one ever mentions how much they curl. I guess its easy to cheat a bit in curls, so the numbers can be a bit off.

So, what is decent curling weight on the barbell?? I am able to do 135 for a decent rep, a little arching. No idea if that is low or decent.
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135-155lbs.
 
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