What do you guys thinks is the more effective bicep exercise for building muscle personally i do the chin up grip on the lat pulldown machine and my biceps are sore the next day i cant achieve that soreness with curls
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Thread: Curls vs Chin Ups
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08-30-2012, 05:18 AM #1
Curls vs Chin Ups
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08-30-2012, 05:33 AM #2
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Curls will isolate the biceps (well, with some forearm in there, too), chin ups are more of a compound, that has some biceps activation. I mean it would be hard to call one more effective than the other. They both can fit into a program. Some people have well developed biceps without isolation work, most don't.
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08-30-2012, 05:43 AM #3
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08-30-2012, 07:06 AM #11
Don't train for "soreness;" train to progressively lift more weight and/or more reps with good form on a week-to-week basis.
Some combination of direct (such as any Curl variant) and indirect (such as your pulldowns, or any other 'pull' exercise) will generally work the best to build biceps.
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08-30-2012, 07:11 AM #12
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Chin ups are more of a compound because it is in fact a compound exercise while the curl is an isolation exercise.
Reason being is Chins have more than one joint moving during the movement while curls (should) only have one joint moving during the movement. How many muscles are involved doesn't dictate compound or isolation. One exercise can not be more compound than another compound.-
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08-30-2012, 09:39 AM #17
Both are good exercises for the biceps. Who says that performing the biceps exercise on the Chinup bar is retard or curl is better are the ones who can't perform few reps of of biceps exercise on the high bar. So they prefer the dumbbells or bar curls.
I know BB's who built their biceps mainly relying on the high bar(Chinup) for biceps exercise. And their biceps are really cut well.
Those are also the ones who rely on no weights but their body to build muscles. Like doing pushups(different methods, one or 2 fingers..), dips, chinups, abs..
Those are the most ripped BB's I know, maybe not huge big muscles like some freaky stupid BB's but good shape shredded symmetric physical body.
This is what matters.
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