watchnerd
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See it in the anterior delts straight off.
Oh, I was only looking at the biceps.
See it in the anterior delts straight off.
What sort of rep ranges do you train the biceps?Bro-science observation:
My biceps seem to be governed by "sarcoplasmic hypertrophy" more than any other muscle I have.
This may be just observational bias as I can see and feel them more easily.
But I seem to go through inflation / depletion cycles more with my biceps than other muscles.
And, conversely, I seem to have less bicep 'myofibrillar hypertrophy'.
Unlike my forearms and triceps, which stay denser and harder.
What sort of rep ranges do you train the biceps?
Does your observation influence your choices at all?
I added a few sets of barbell curls
Thick bar curls, 3 sets of 5 reps, I don’t recall the weights off hand but I do remember hitting 135 at one point because it was a goal I had. I just worked it the same way as a main lift.How heavy were you curling and what sort of sets / reps?
lol. OP, have you seen top-level arm wrestlers on YouTube? Cyplenkov, Larratt, and Voevoda?
If your priority is Olympic lifting, then curls will always be just beach work and elbow health. But if you want to take it to the next level, you gotta curl heavy, man. Treat the standing barbell curl like it is its own sport.
The logic otherwise is like saying you won't ever need front squats because you're already giving your deadlifts some leg drive.
lol. The era of Hepburn and Anderson really is gone. Olympic lifters truly are a specialized type of athlete.That's all it is for me -- beach work and elbow health.
lol. The era of Hepburn and Anderson really is gone. Olympic lifters truly are a specialized type of athlete.
Hepburn used to showcase his "weightlifting prowess" by doing curls and handstands. Anderson did the bizarre backlift.
Backflips are still to be seen among weightlifters:
But, yes, by comparison, Hepburn and Anderson would be un-specialized amateurs today.
Tommy Kono used to compete in both weightlifting *and* bodybuilding.
Sadly, I don't think Tommy wouldn't win at bodybuilding today, either.
I said backlift, not backflip.
And Tommy Kono not winning at bodybuilding has more to do with the fact that Dianabol, the first effective steroid that didn’t have to be ingested through bull urine, didn’t become available in the black market until 1958.
As a silver era bodybuilder, Kono would’ve done decently.
By no means are my arms as big as some of the people in this forum but I got more arm and specifically front bicep development than I ever did doing various curl variations at the gym . I even got one from alpha m on YouTube (I think it was so 7 reps of curls, then reps of the top half and 7 reps of the bottom half of the curl and It hunk 3 or 4 sets of this). I’m shocked cleans work my biceps more than the curls considering cleans are dynamic and curls are usually done very slow. Chin-ups work as well.
What's a backlift?
The Heaviest Weight Ever Lifted - June 12th, 1957, Paul Anderson's Record Backlift - www.oldtimestrongman.com
The Heaviest Weight Ever Lifted – June 12th, 1957, Paul Anderson’s Record Backlift It was on June 12th, 1957 when Paul Anderson backlifted 6270 pounds — a well-documented and still-unbroken feat. Paul Anderson, of course was a noted Olympic Gold Medal Winner and Strongman. If you are unfamiliar...www.oldtimestrongman.com
In the following video, skip to 2:20.
He is my hero for a reason. Right up there with Doug Hepburn and Masahiko Kimura.
Just double kettlebell clean and press and not even a heavy weight just double 20kgs (for now at least).What kind of cleans?
'Reverse curl' is kind of a classic name for 'bad power clean'.
Just double kettlebell clean and press and not even a heavy weight just double 20kgs (for now at least).