Rob Wilkins - Blasting Your Biceps: Heavy Metal Style!

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[Silent_Impact]

Also, enough with this extreme marketing stuff. Cut the crap and just present it as it is.

Where did you get this 70% of the arm is triceps and the other 30% is biceps? While I agree the triceps make up the majority of the arm mass, I would love to see where you got this statistic, because it does not say that in my Anatomy textbook.

3 different types of curls and eccentric chins? How is this any different than the other bicep routines that are posted here every 4 weeks?

In my opinion, doing chins and rows, exercises that incorporate the biceps, and a good eating plan will pack on the muscle everywhere including the biceps. Not set after set of curls.

Absolutely, Silent Impact.
My recipe for biceps growth:
Train back with chins and rows. Then pick up heavy barbell and or dumbell. Curl it.
Eat. Grow.

Although ive been working out regularly for 3 years, there are some disappointments i've had to deal with. Learning why my biceps peak instead of develop in length (from doing preacher curls) was pretty cool. Also, the Eccentric Chins exercise is a great idea to train in the negative and I intend to implement that one immediately. The great thing about this exercie is that no dumbells are needed, so you dont have to wait on someone to get finished with the 150's........ok, the 25's.

If you've only been training for 3 years, the most important thing for your biceps development would be the amount of weight you can use in reasonably strict form for your back exercises, and some (but not too much) heavy curling. Try to make progression in weights. When you plateau, change the exercises you do and your rep ranges. Go to Testosterone.com for the best info available for no charge.

How many blast your biceps articles does this place need?

They're all the same old stuff rehashed, just a list of exercises to perform, you learn nothing new here and its no good for beginners because it makes them think the way to big arms is to 'blast them' doesn't seem to relay the importance of adding bodyweight.

Recommending negatives is also not the best thing as they are so easy to overtrain with

[EricS]

Originally posted by Unregistered
Although ive been working out regularly for 3 years, there are some disappointments i've had to deal with. Learning why my biceps peak instead of develop in length (from doing preacher curls) was pretty cool. Also, the Eccentric Chins exercise is a great idea to train in the negative and I intend to implement that one immediately. The great thing about this exercie is that no dumbells are needed, so you dont have to wait on someone to get finished with the 150's........ok, the 25's.

Muscle fibers do not grow in length, the grow in width or Cross sectional area. As the author stated in the very beginning of the article, the shape of your biceps is determined by genetics. More specifically, the origins and insertion points of the tendons. These things can NOT be changed by doing preacher curls. Plain and simple, Elbow flexion is elbow flexion. A cur is a curl. It doesn't matter how many different spins you put on it. Muscle only get bigger, they don't change shape. If you don't have apeak now, you probably never will.

Don't add another dissapointment to the list be not getting a peak from preacher curls.

[EricS]

Originally posted by Silent_Impact

Where did you get this 70% of the arm is triceps and the other 30% is biceps? While I agree the triceps make up the majority of the arm mass, I would love to see where you got this statistic, because it does not say that in my Anatomy textbook.

3 different types of curls and eccentric chins? How is this any different than the other bicep routines that are posted here every 4 weeks?

In my opinion, doing chins and rows, exercises that incorporate the biceps, and a good eating plan will pack on the muscle everywhere including the biceps. Not set after set of curls.

Well right off the bat - 3 head of the triceps compared to the 2 head of the biceps. collectivly that is 3 out of 5 total muscle which eaquals 60% of the arm - asuming we aren't including support muscle like the brachialis or anconeous and only examining the brachii muscles.

In comparison, tricpes are pennate muscle fibers which allows for a greater number of fibers to be packed into each head when looked via PCSA. More over the long head of the triceps is a rather large muscle, larger than either heads of the biceps. All those things combined he probably guestimated 70%. But it is atleast 60%

On an idividual basis this could be less or more depending on that persons genetics and their training.
But in retrospect, does it really matter how much % one person says versus another?

[Silent_Impact]

Originally posted by EricS
Well right off the bat - 3 head of the triceps compared to the 2 head of the biceps. collectivly that is 3 out of 5 total muscle which eaquals 60% of the arm - asuming we aren't including support muscle like the brachialis or anconeous and only examining the brachii muscles.

In comparison, tricpes are pennate muscle fibers which allows for a greater number of fibers to be packed into each head when looked via PCSA. More over the long head of the triceps is a rather large muscle, larger than either heads of the biceps. All those things combined he probably guestimated 70%. But it is atleast 60%

On an idividual basis this could be less or more depending on that persons genetics and their training.
But in retrospect, does it really matter how much % one person says versus another?

I agree with you, that it is not that trivial of a matter what percents that he says, because as I had admitted earlier, its a pretty much general consensus that triceps make up the majority of the mass of the arm.

That 70% statistic just piqued my curiosity, because I never read anything in my anat. textbook about that type of statistic. I consider myself an anatomy nerd, and like to devour any information relating to it. I wasn't trying to attack him with that statement, just merely asking a question.

I agree though that it is of miniscule importance.

Here's to hoping for some new innovative arm articles!