*** The 2011 Gym Rats Thread ***

[NeverWinter]

Work on negative chin-ups then, then your chin-ups will improve.

Yeah, I've been doing negative pull-ups, I'll try negative chin-ups too, good idea.

I think at 110kg (unlean) your best bet is to go with heavy curls, but I tend to find biceps are very much a muscle that really come out the leaner you get. If you're carrying a fair bit of fat at 110kg, then perhaps your answer is to cut.

My bicep peak is canny at 78kg and that's without being particularly muscly.

I haven't had it done in a while but last time I had my BF measured at the gym it was just below 15%

 

[TommyV]

but I tend to find biceps are very much a muscle that really come out the leaner you get. If you're carrying a fair bit of fat at 110kg, then perhaps your answer is to cut.

This to some degree. Having short/long bicep insertions makes one hell of a difference though.

I have one arm with short, one arm with long, sucks donkey balls!

 

[Delvis]

Too much fapping

 

[NeverWinter]

This to some degree. Having short/long bicep insertions makes one hell of a difference though.

I have one arm with short, one arm with long, sucks donkey balls!

Can you clarify what short/long bicep insertions are? Never really heard of them...

 

[Ultra_Extreme]

Can you clarify what short/long bicep insertions are? Never really heard of them...

110kg and 15%? congrats on being pretty damn big then, bigger than me. I suspect your BF is higher than you think or you're taller than all hell.

People distinctly seem to have 2 kinds of bicep, shorter guys and especially ectomorphic guys have tennis ball like biceps that bunch up and peak easily, bigger guys and endomorphic guys often have longer muscle structures giving less peak on the muscle but overall more mass.

Dont sweat biceps, you dont need to train them directly at all, a proper back day involving chins rows and pull downs will do everything. Throw in some preacher pad 21's if you wanna 'feel' like you've done your biceps.

 

[Saytan]

curls get the gurls.....

 

[NeverWinter]

I'm 6'2" so not mega tall, I definitely weigh that much, body fat was my last measurement which was some time ago, the guy who measured me was very surprised. Personally I just think my body is all out of proportion! Haha. I'll try and get another body fat measurement done soon.

Thanks for the explanation.

 

[Skillmister]

Straight barbell curls followed immediately by dumbell curls = pain and a huge pump

 

[LiE]

110kg and 15%? congrats on being pretty damn big then, bigger than me. I suspect your BF is higher than you think or you're taller than all hell.

People distinctly seem to have 2 kinds of bicep, shorter guys and especially ectomorphic guys have tennis ball like biceps that bunch up and peak easily, bigger guys and endomorphic guys often have longer muscle structures giving less peak on the muscle but overall more mass.

Dont sweat biceps, you dont need to train them directly at all, a proper back day involving chins rows and pull downs will do everything. Throw in some preacher pad 21's if you wanna 'feel' like you've done your biceps.

Tennis balls here

The bicep work I do (a part from back) are chin ups, barbell curls and seated dumbbell curls.

 

[Skillmister]

Thats not a tennis ball thats the arnie slanted moutain side

 

[LiE]

Agreed Chicco. You don't get the same kind of stimulation from working biceps indirectly i.e. back training.

 

[Freefaller]

I only do bicep curls at the gym.

 

[LiE]

I only do bicep curls at the gym.

You don't need to do much tbh, the bicep isn't large. I think your biceps would be smaller if you didn't do those curls.

 

[Psycho Sonny]

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my first one should have arrived this morning.

BRB going to check and take some pics if it has.

 

[Psycho Sonny]

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[Freefaller]

You don't need to do much tbh, the bicep isn't large. I think your biceps would be smaller if you didn't do those curls.

You misunderstood. I only do bicep curls. In the squat rack. Ever. Nothing else.

 

[Delvis]

You misunderstood. I only do bicep curls. In the squat rack. Ever. Nothing else.

Must be tensing all over man, keeping your core tight etc

P.S: Did you not like my amended sigs?

 

[LiE]

Reminds me of this group of guys in the gym who wear a belt for seated dumbbell shoulder press, bench pressing.. all sorts.

 

[NeverWinter]

i recently signed up to graze

http://www.graze.com/

Definitely just snacks, but surely this is stuff you can get yourself from the supermarket or other local shops?

 

[Skillmister]

Reminds me of this group of guys in the gym who wear a belt for seated dumbbell shoulder press, bench pressing.. all sorts.

But ronnie c wears one for curls, so must i!