![]() Instead, you should be holding the barbell as close to your body as possible and doing a drag curl. I feel that a lot of people who are doing seated barbell biceps curls are doing exactly that, which is not the correct way to perform the exercise. One of the other key things Jim talked about was how you’re not supposed to bring the bar to your knees and curl from there. However, over time as you get stronger and build a solid mind-muscle connection, you’re able to focus better on areas you’re trying to target and use techniques that you’ve adapted to over time. Or, if you’re doing a biceps curl, chances are that your forearm and your grip are fatiguing before your biceps. If you’re bench pressing as a beginner, for example and trying to target your chest, your triceps and shoulders will tend to fatigue before your chest does. When you’re a beginner, you tend to fatigue the muscles that are furthest away from your centre of gravity first, before you get to the ones you’re trying to target. There is some truth to that, but it’s not for everyone. When that happens, you’re not able to really full exhaust your biceps because your brachioradialis and brachialis muscles have fatigued first. One of the things Jim mentioned in his video is that, a lot of the times when you do a biceps curl, your brachioradialis and brachialis start to fatigue before your biceps do. Therefore, my initial thinking was that, if I think doing half reps of just the top portion of a barbell curl is bad, why would I think a seated version of that is any different? It would make me a hypocrite. That’s where your biceps engage and that’s where you’re weakest so for me, I don’t feel like I’m getting a good biceps workout unless I have at least one movement where I’m working through that bottom portion of a biceps curl. The hardest part of a biceps curl (or the sticking point) is the bottom of the movement. A half rep in my book is still a half rep. Let me make it very clear from the beginning – no other exercise is going to replace your standard, standing barbell curl. ![]() So I watched Jim’s video and I actually came to an interesting conclusion. So even though I’m against the exercise, I’m open minded so that I can learn more. However, after I made that video, quite a few people told me that Jim Stoppani and others have talked about the benefits of seated barbell curls for biceps. I’ve mentioned this video in the past, when I mentioned it in my video about the dumbest exercises I’ve seen in the gym, so you know that I didn’t think this exercise was good in the past. Today we’re going to talk about the seated barbell curl.
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