Bicep CURLS!

[H2O]

I've been working on my biceps and I'm coming across that Tennis ball problem.
My Biceps are starting to shape up like a ball when I curl/flex it.
So, how can I fix it or prevent it.
here's and example:
http://www.wrestlingzone.ru/gallery/s_steiner/5.jpg
-h2flow

[Papa Lazarou]

Banned - soon you will be.

[Casper]

cut them off

[Syn]

ummm, I don't see the problem

[Counterfeit Soda]

WTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

[Birch]

They grow like this because you are only training one aspect of them. There are two bicep muscles, each with two heads. It is likely you are neglecting half of them.
Biceps are ghey, you are wasting precious training energy doing isolations exercises. Your biceps will grow from doing back muscles. In addition to having a great back, the biceps may also grow out more evenly.
COMPOUND FTW

[Steve]

They grow like this because you are only training one aspect of them. There are two bicep muscles, each with two heads. It is likely you are neglecting half of them.
Biceps are ghey, you are wasting precious training energy doing isolations exercises. Your biceps will grow from doing back muscles. In addition to having a great back, the biceps may also grow out more evenly.
COMPOUND FTW

you are mad

[Birch]

Why thank you, I also think that you are mad.

[Steve]

But I'm the sanest person here

[anfeyd]

They grow like this because you are only training one aspect of them. There are two bicep muscles, each with two heads. It is likely you are neglecting half of them.
Biceps are ghey, you are wasting precious training energy doing isolations exercises. Your biceps will grow from doing back muscles. In addition to having a great back, the biceps may also grow out more evenly.
COMPOUND FTW

Yes because when you do a bicep curl only half of the bicep is actually flexing.

[Birch]

Lets be friends Anfeyd.

[Kid Knuckles]

Help! My anatomy is completely normal and I don't know why. How can I change this?

example:
http://capslockhouse.pbwiki.com/f/fail.PNG

[Honken]

How can I change this?

Toning and spot ... growth.

[zambri]

try curling a little bit slower, also try some hammer curls

[paulSA]

you cant exactly change it. thats the genetic shape your bicep has, you should stretch more after exercising

[Benji]

It's better than the opposite. Having real long and bulky muscles with little peak.

[compleks]

This thread is now about Benjis avatar.... Excellent!

[zambri]

This thread is now about Benjis avatar.... Excellent!

most defiantly


is there a name for that fine young lady?

[Matty]

I approve Benji. Yes what is her name and guess where id shove that pole ;)

[Steve]

Why do you need to know her name? So you can track her down and pretend to be her friend? Her name is Allison Stokke, and she's probably an old woman by now.

[Ashtar]

I don't think you can isolate a bicep head birch. Emphasize one slightly maybe, but that probably wouldn't account for this. More likely he's got short muscle attachments.

[Kid Knuckles]

Toning and spot ... growth.

heh I wasn't serious :)

[-Envy-]

Feel lucky that you can get a nice peak. Some guys have longer muscles, and they can't get a very good peak on the biceps.

[Counterfeit Soda]

They grow like this because you are only training one aspect of them. There are two bicep muscles, each with two heads. It is likely you are neglecting half of them.
Biceps are ghey, you are wasting precious training energy doing isolations exercises. Your biceps will grow from doing back muscles. In addition to having a great back, the biceps may also grow out more evenly.
COMPOUND FTW

Unfortionately, most people with huge arms....train their arms.

I don't know what this obsession with some people is, with not doing any isolation exercises, like it's just going to ruin the whole workout to do a couple exercises for your arms. Shit, I've read an article from a strongman competitor, talking about how it hurt him on his first competition because he didn't do enough direct arm work. Practicing jiu jitsu, I've rolled with guys who were similar to my size, who really only did compound lifts and didn't really train their arms. I had advantages controlling them because of it. Direct arm work is NOT that horrible of a thing.

Edit 2:

Before someone says it, I'm not saying that the majority, or even much of your training should consist of isolation work. Don't be gay and take what I said for anything more than it is.

[Colonel]

The other day, at the gym, this guy did like a 40min session....
...and i swear to god all i saw him doing was bicep work....LOL

And as for not isolating your biceps, wouldnt that mean you shouldnt isolate your triceps too?
Cause i was told you have to train opposite muscles equally, back/chest, quads/glutes, bicep/tricep.
I think i train my triceps a bit too much, they've made mad gains whereas my biceps havent >.<

[DeeJay]

The other day, at the gym, this guy did like a 40min session....
...and i swear to god all i saw him doing was bicep work....LOL


haha thats like this small guy i saw come in the other day. Sits down and starts doing dumbell bicep curls, standing curls, barbell, hammer curls.....

[anfeyd]

Unfortionately, most people with huge arms....train their arms.

I don't know what this obsession with some people is, with not doing any isolation exercises, like it's just going to ruin the whole workout to do a couple exercises for your arms. Shit, I've read an article from a strongman competitor, talking about how it hurt him on his first competition because he didn't do enough direct arm work. Practicing jiu jitsu, I've rolled with guys who were similar to my size, who really only did compound lifts and didn't really train their arms. I had advantages controlling them because of it. Direct arm work is NOT that horrible of a thing.

Edit 2:

Before someone says it, I'm not saying that the majority, or even much of your training should consist of isolation work. Don't be gay and take what I said for anything more than it is.

Yes, there are a lot of sports that benefit from direct arm work. I have nothing against including some, but I think the main reason why the anti bicep club rolled around is in regards to people who devote a whole day to biceps.

[Benji]

her name is allison stokke and shes 18 haha

[dpitlock]

I got excited because I read the title thread as bicep GIRLS

[Melf]

Yes, there are a lot of sports that benefit from direct arm work. I have nothing against including some, but I think the main reason why the anti bicep club rolled around is in regards to people who devote a whole day to biceps.

Actually I know a few people who do that and they're freaking huge.
If you've got enough time to train everyday then it can be a good thing to really only focus on one muscle group a day.
The guys I see in my gym on monday evenings are the problem, they'll do every chest exercise possible (they all start with barbell bench presses) and when they've finished chest, they'll do biceps isolation exercises for the rest of their workout, this wouldn't be that much of a problem if I'd see them on some other days training the rest of their body, but I really only see them train chest/biceps on monday evenings.( and that are actually quite a lot of people, well I'm sure some of them train something else when I'm not there (but that's only 2 days a week and the days are different from week to week), but by the way they look you can definitely say that they don't train the rest of their body very often).

[anfeyd]

Actually I know a few people who do that and they're freaking huge.
If you've got enough time to train everyday then it can be a good thing to really only focus on one muscle group a day.
The guys I see in my gym on monday evenings are the problem, they'll do every chest exercise possible (they all start with barbell bench presses) and when they've finished chest, they'll do biceps isolation exercises for the rest of their workout, this wouldn't be that much of a problem if I'd see them on some other days training the rest of their body, but I really only see them train chest/biceps on monday evenings.( and that are actually quite a lot of people, well I'm sure some of them train something else when I'm not there (but that's only 2 days a week and the days are different from week to week), but by the way they look you can definitely say that they don't train the rest of their body very often).

I'm talking about athletes, not bodybuilders.

[Counterfeit Soda]

haha thats like this small guy i saw come in the other day. Sits down and starts doing dumbell bicep curls, standing curls, barbell, hammer curls.....

Yes, these people are idiots. The people who are so against isolation exercises are just as wrong as the people who only do isolation exercises though. There is a middle-ground, people don't need to take one extreme or the other. I didn't do hardly any isolation work for a long time, not so much because I believed it was pointless or anything, but it is just more boring than compound lifts to me. When I started doing a day primarily for my arms, my bench press started improving much quicker, along with other lifts.

Then on the other end, you have one guy at my gym who will come in and do machine chest flies, tricep extensions, back extensions, bicep curls, and shrugs. That's all he ever does, and no legs at all. He probably weighs about 140lbs, and has made no progress at all. He needs to do about 90-95% compound lifts, and eat more. I can't understand any reasoning behind this kind of training.

[Steve]

Wrong soda, everyone knows you only have 5 minutes to lift weights before total breakdown and it's best to spend those minutes doing deadlifts instead of isolation lifts.