One of the keys to building up a stubborn muscle group is to incorporate more frequent workouts for that muscle group in your routine. And the arms work great for doing frequent workouts for 2 reasons: First, it is easy to train the arms with very little equipment. In this workout here ...
“It’s a great addition to your arm training routine for building strength and size in these muscle groups.” How To Do It Take hold of the dumbbells with your palms facing up. Curl as usual. Rotate your hands so that your palms are facing down once you reach the top of your rep....
If you are overzealous with the workouts, you can easily injure yourself. Avoid triceps exercises if your elbow is sore as you could easily develop olecranon bursitis (a swollen elbow). Should you feel a slight pain during a particular routine, try a different hand grip. Avoid exercises that ...
This is the third part of my new dumbbell workout video series covering home gym workouts that you can do with minimal equipment. I get a lot of requests for basic workouts that can be done at home using just dumbbells and bodyweight exercises. So over the next several videos and blog p...
This means that when you train biceps, you have to rely on intensity techniques more than any other muscle group to heighten the overall intensity and effect of the workout. 1A.) AND 1B.) THE ‘BIG EXERCISE’ As we often do in our workouts, we’ll start this routine off with a comp...
Here the elbows are kept way back and dumbbells are tucked in close. Rep out here as well. WHAT MAKES IT EFFECTIVE:This effective three-move routine is a mechanical drop set that helps you to work through the burn way past failure to create an intense metabolic stress. ...
best done with dumbbells to ensure that the stronger arm does not aid the weaker. When performing bicep curls, keep your elbows tucked in close to your torso and back a little. Keep tension in the muscle for the full movement. Do not straighten out the arm, and lift the weight to your...
muscles, and so most of the targeted work we give them will be isolations. But they’re also involved in compound pulling movements. Most rowing and pulling motions will use your biceps at least a little, so you can get a lot done just by making sure to include these in your routine....
You must add weight with every workout. Because the arms are a small body part, you may need to use “micro-loading,” which simply means you patiently increase the weight EVERY WORKOUT, but in very small increments. For example, most clubs have dumbbells with 5-pound jumps in weight. ...
No…You may not be able to try every workout you write up (although it wouldn’t be a bad idea to run through as many as you can), but you should have experienced and experimented enough with different exercises and designs that any routine you throw someones way you know you could co...