To get big biceps you need a diet plan as well as a training plan. Let’s assume you already have good eating habits. 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. And you’re drinking at least half your body weight, in ounces, of water every day.

Your weight lifting routine should consist of doing your big compound lifts first. Squats and other similar compound exercises will make your body produce more growth hormone, which will stimulate muscle growth throughout your body.

I like to use free weights over machines because your body has to work harder to control them, which is more functional. Understand also, that when you do your compound exercises your arms will get worked no matter what.

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. If you do an exercise first that tires out the supporting muslce in the arms, then the main driver of the movement, will be required to do more work, since it’s helper has been pre-exhausted. For instance: you could work your biceps or triceps before doing pull ups, rows or bench presses. the idea her is that the main driver of the compound mvement will have to work harder if it’s supporting muscles in the arms are pre-exhausted. It looks great on paper, as to whether it really works is another question. Give it a try and see what you think.

Okay, you’ve got your main compound exercises done and it’s time to move on to your arms to get big biceps. Use a lot of different angles to work your arms without overdoing it. 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.

You can superset your biceps with similar three position tricep 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. The next time you hit arms, do a different position and keep them rotating each workout. And don’t forget a few reverse curls to warm things 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. If you make the muscle under the biceps bigger, it will push the biceps up and make it stand out more.

I can’t emphasize enough the importance of good nutrition, without it, you may get stronger, but, you’ll never get the lean muscularity you’re after.

Eat well, work hard, get green!

Article by:

Kurt Williams

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