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Amateur Bodybuilder 
Posts: 124 |
Who agrees?     | ||
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Olympian 
Posts: 1928 |
what?? | ||
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Olympian
Posts: 1808 |
I dont do them all the time, but to build muscle you need to move the weight. So I do use them every other bi workout. ------------------ "Catch a man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he eats for a lifetime." | ||
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Elite Bodybuilder 
Posts: 916 |
not bad..not bad......later ------------------ | ||
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Elite Bodybuilder
Posts: 725 |
anyone care to share what they are? or explain? or point to a website that tells what there are?? i dunno??? thanx. ------------------ | ||
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Amateur Bodybuilder
Posts: 158 |
I'm sorry, but if you don't know what cheat curls are, then you have some problems. Load the bar with a shit load of wait and use a little momentum and body force to start it up. Then as controlled as possible, finish the curling movement. They are ussually only done from 4 to 6 reps, but 8 gives a nasty pump when some are forced! ------------------ | ||
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Amateur Bodybuilder
Posts: 176 |
Good form is a must how can you be working on bi's and feel your shoulders beign worked, makes no sense but I agree... ------------------ | ||
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Pro Bodybuilder 
Posts: 348 |
for me I only get a good pump in my bis when I isolate them-but everyone is different. ------------------ | ||
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Amateur Bodybuilder
Posts: 124 |
You arent doing em right if you dont think they work. TRUST ME. Load the fk out of the bar, make all the idiot wanna be personal trainers shake their heads at you and then go !(*@#)# CRAZZY! Cheat as much as required to keep the set going on the up part of the motion and be slow and deliberate on the down part. you are doing it right if you are grunting BRAAAAH uncontrolably for the whole gym to hear while the set is in progress. They make the bottoms of your biceps swell up like you can't even believe. I wouldn't have any masss in my lower biceps without them, just a big ugly meat hook like so many others. ALso they make your biceps much wider. The best part is the way they make you feel. like a crazy son of a bitch on roidds! (even sometimes when you aren't even on roids) I only do em about ten percent of the time when doing biceps. Doing them at the end, after everything else is finished is the best. Arnold did em with 275 pounds for reps. | ||
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Elite Bodybuilder
Posts: 1188 |
I prefer stricter mostly, however I have been known to do the odd cheat curl about once every couple of months. It can shock the muscle with the overload - just make sure to warm up and to to cheat too much. | ||
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Elite Bodybuilder
Posts: 765 |
Hum...strict form = less muscle involved, eh? Okay, tell me, do you think that to keep your body perfect still dosen't require the traps, shoulders, back, abs, legs, glutes and calves? You have to contract very hard against the pull of the weight towards the midpiont, as to not fall over. However, by accelerating the weight, and concentrating fully on the bi's, you will do two things: A) Increase the total contractile force of the Bi's via stronger impulses because more speed is required at the beginning of the movement, which it itself will promote an increase in muscle fibers for any given area to be involved, including Bi's. B) Engage the body's reflex action on the decent, because as soon as that bar hits the bottom, yo ur mustering all the power you have instantly to accelerate quickly up, which if done at the right place can be both safe, and very effective for stimulating more muscle fibers to contract via stronger energy impulses. Oh, by the way, I like them | ||
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Pro Bodybuilder
Posts: 311 |
i also prefer to keep strict with heavy weight. if i got a spotter, i have him spot me just a tad bit to let me work it up, just enough so that if i fail at 6 1/2, he'd help me get that last half in SLOWLY. that last rep is like 5 damn seconds of pressure right there. | ||
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Amateur Bodybuilder
Posts: 124 |
nahhh. I dont like those in my opinion. SOmetimes your dumb ass spotter wont give you enough and then your muscle dont know what to do, stop contracting, start the negative phase, keep going what? Halrf the muscle is doing one thing, the other half is twitching and spasing, its no good. The next thing you know you got an injury that keeps you from working out for a month. | ||
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Pro Bodybuilder
Posts: 311 |
quote: ya but you can;'t really get injured from curling...maybe dumbell bench or db shoulder presses. and lol i know what you're saying, the dumbass spotters who think they are doing you a favor. thats why everytime my friend isn't there, i pick some other guy and have to explain it to them, at least twice. some people pick it up quickly. just look for the bigger guys and tell them to negative spot you. | ||
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Amateur Bodybuilder
Posts: 124 |
True, I guess you can't really injure the biceps easily can you? What is the science behind that? | ||
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Pro Bodybuilder
Posts: 311 |
quote: well of course you can tear it, but i am saying it is much harder to injure yourself because you are in control. when doing db presses, they are above your head, it isn't really a natural motion, and your shoulders are working hard so it is very easy to get injured doing presses. but if u think about it for a sec, you're simply standing and bringing the weight up until you fail. i can't even imagine someone getting injured while doing standing curls. don't you think? |
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posted March 06, 2001 09:38 PM
