Get Big Biceps.

To get big biceps you need a diet plan as well as a training plan. Let’s say your eating a healthy well balanced diet. Your eating quality natural foods 5- 6 meals a day, about every 3 hours, with good ratio of lean protein, carbohydrates and good fat at every meal. Make sure you drink, at minimum, half your bodyweight, in ounces, of wate every day.
Your weight lifting routine should consist of doing your big compound lifts first. Exercises like, squats, deadlifts and clean and jerks will stimulate growth hormone production, to better cause muscle growthh.
I think using free weights over machines is better, because they will require more control from stabilizing muscles. You will use your arms when you do your compound exercises, so they’re going to get worked even without doing isolated arm esercises.
When your doing a pulling move, such as rows or pull ups, your biceps are getting work in assisting in those exercises. Your big compound exercises will be compromised if you do your arm exercises first. Use your isolated arm exercises to finish up and polish the arms after you’re finished with the compound exercises.
Pre-exhaustion training is where you reverse the aforementioned plan. You could perform an arm exercise initially to pre-tire a support muscle, so when you did the compound exercise, the main muscle working that movement would have to exert more effort to do the movement, since it’s support muscle would be pre-exhausted. For instance: you could work your biceps or triceps before doing pull ups, rows or bench presses. The theory being that your lats would get more work due to the fact that your biceps are tapped. This sounds great in theory, as to whether it really gets the job done is up for debate Give it a try and see what you think.
If you’re finished with the big compound moves, then it’s time to move on to the arm exercises to get big biceps. Work your ams from various angles, but don’t overtrain them. I like to do a standing curl to hit the middle portion of the biceps; a decline curl (about 10 - 20 degrees off vertical) for my biceps to get it in the stretched position; and a concentration or spider curl to really hit the peak contraction point. By the way these are all supinated, or palms up.
I would superset the above with three position triceps exercises. For instance an overhead triceps extension for the stretched position; a standing triceps pushdown for the middle position and a triceps kick-back for the peak contraction position.
Choose what position you wish to work that day; middle , stretched or peak contraction and just do 3 to 4 supersets of that position that day. Rotate the positions each time you do your arm workout. You can do reverse curls for a few sets to warm up.
Turn your hands palms down to do reverse curls, in order to maintain muscular balance in the arms and concentrate on the brachialis muscle under the biceps. The brachialis is the workhorse in the upper arm for flexing the elbow. By turning your hands palms down, you eliminate the biceps and concentrate on the brachialis. Enlarging the brachialis will cause it to push up the biceps from underneath, making the biceps stand out more.
If your nutrition is poor then you’ll never get the muscle growth or muscularity that you are lookiing for.
Eat well, work hard, get green!
Article by:
Kurt Williams