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Anyone else feel they get a better workout with the cable curl?I feel like it puts more stress on the biceps throughout the whole movement
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Anyone else feel they get a better workout with the cable curl?I feel like it puts more stress on the biceps throughout the whole movement
Agreed. I think this may be the case because with a cable you can control it better when you lower it. If youre using a heavy barbell, momentum is going to bring the bar down in a less controlled manner and less stress on the bicep.
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For some reason I don't feel the muscle working when I use cables. They just feel strange to me.
I really prefer to use barbell and dumbbell curls.
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just variations in the direction of resistance, optimally you want to change it up every time you get back to a muscle group anyway.
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I always do either straight bar curls or ez bar curls every bicep workout. I have to admit I wonder if I'm wrong not to do the straight bar cable curl. Whenever I do them I really feel them more than barbell curls. With barbell curls the resistance disappears toward the end. It's a really incomplete movement. Using a low pulley connection the movement is working the bicep through a more complete range of motion.
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Straight bar gives me tendonitis.
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Straight bar gives me tendonitis.
Another problem i get, pain in forearms with the straightbar
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For some reason I don't feel the muscle working when I use cables. They just feel strange to me.
I really prefer to use barbell and dumbbell curls.
X2. I have Arnold like biceps for barbell curl alone.
WoooSSSHHHHHHHHHHHH
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dumbelcurls on a bench with 45degree incline. Damn it! Alot of sets 4-5 times/week 1-2 years in a row will make our arms grow!
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I do both.
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For some reason I don't feel the muscle working when I use cables. They just feel strange to me.
I really prefer to use barbell and dumbbell curls.
Same ^^
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I switch back and forth,one time might be straight bb curl or straight bar cable curl then it might be ez bar cable curl then ez bar curl.I feel them all at different times.
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My elbows stopped letting me do straight bar curls, so I use the EZ bar. I don't have any cables, so that is out for me.
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have always preferred straight barbell curls because they're harder to do than cables imo
people always say they get better isolation with cables but thats because they're form is poor with barbells.
slow negative, explosive positive, squeeze at the contraction in good form with heavy weight, drop sets you can't beat barbell curls imo because i think the resistance on the negative is harder than cables.
probably due to the difference in mechanisms of the weight - cables attached to a stack and weight directly on a bar.
ancillary muscles more involved too.
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I do both.
x2
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I've developed a liking for it as well. The tension is felt the whole range, you can even set the height of the cable and back up a few feet for different feel of the movement.
Would never do just cables, but with a cambered bar, I find it hard to beat as a top 3 movement for biceps.
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x2
x3
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Preacher curl is still the best.
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x3
x 4
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I do both.
x5 but I do feel more tension with the cable
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Preacher curl is still the best.
yes a great exercise and donīt forget Drag Curls with a Barbell. This works the Biceps or at least Vince Gironda always said through a better range of motion..
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From Vince ...
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My elbows stopped letting me do straight bar curls, so I use the EZ bar. I don't have any cables, so that is out for me.
Arod hit an HR in a game yesterday.....sportsline did this:
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Army of one confusing his dildo collection with weights again
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Arod hit an HR in a game yesterday.....sportsline did this:
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If I were at all a Yankee fan I would definitely use that as my new avatar.
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If I were at all a Yankee fan I would definitely use that as my new avatar.
It's ARod though, and I'm not that big a fan.
I'll just use it to annoy red sox fans, who will continue to belittle Arod about steroids, while conveniently ignoring Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz.
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It's ARod though, and I'm not that big a fan.
I'll just use it to annoy red sox fans, who will continue to belittle Arod about steroids, while conveniently ignoring Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz.
I thought that the sport was a ton better when there was juice everywhere. Canseco, McGwire and Sosa blasting dingers every third time at bat. I would be a hypocrite if I tried to "deplore" the use of PEDs in sports.
More PEDs, better sports. End of story.
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I thought that the sport was a ton better when there was juice everywhere. Canseco, McGwire and Sosa blasting dingers every third time at bat. I would be a hypocrite if I tried to "deplore" the use of PEDs in sports.
More PEDs, better sports. End of story.
I'm not that extreme, but I can say they don't bother me. The greats are still the greats. So many people used, but nobody matched the numbers Barry Bonds put up.
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I always do either straight bar curls or ez bar curls every bicep workout. I have to admit I wonder if I'm wrong not to do the straight bar cable curl. Whenever I do them I really feel them more than barbell curls. With barbell curls the resistance disappears toward the end. It's a really incomplete movement. Using a low pulley connection the movement is working the bicep through a more complete range of motion.
not true- even with cable curls the end point is limited because of the way the arc is. The cable moves gradually closer to your elbow, which reduces the force felt at the bicep.
the only thing you need to determine the stress on the muscle is the distance that the load is away from the pivot. Force = mass x distance. with cable curls, if you keep moving your elbow's position relative to the weight, you can control where the force is. you dont have that choice with a bar if your elbows are held in one position. Arnold got it right with cheat curls. He worked out that by getting the bar to a point where the bicep was exposed to maximum stress, he could skip the exposure to the mechanically disadvantageous first third of the rep.
the wrist position is the real difference. Bar bells give you no choice, so unless you are particularly suited to having your palm pronated the way the bar is, you wont feel as comfortable or in control.
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I'm not that extreme, but I can say they don't bother me. The greats are still the greats. So many people used, but nobody matched the numbers Barry Bonds put up.
Bonds had Coleman-esque gear response genetics.
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From Vince ...
Vince invented the Body Drag Curl, but that video sucks.
This one is better, except his grip is too wide. You really have to drag the bar up against your body, elbows back, not to the sides.
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Vince invented the Body Drag Curl, but that video sucks.
This one is better, except his grip is too wide. You really have to drag the bar up against your body, elbows back, not to the sides.
I agree with you 100% and bringing the bar to at most chest height. Key is as you rightly wrote bringing your elbows back.
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best bicep exercise is the pullup
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best bicep exercise is the pullup
Yes, I like close-grip pullups and ring pullups because I supinate on the way up. I love pullups and will do over a hundred in a back workout easy, some weighted, some just body weight. I have decent biceps, crappy triceps.
Ring rows with supination are good too.
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best bicep exercise is the pullup
Chin ups are the only bicep exercise I do. Stopped doing any type of curl over 4 years back.
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ive found out that its not just a good bicep exercise, it also is a good exercise for back !
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Fuck, it's curls/biceps.
This isn't something important like squats, deadlifts or presses.
Pick up SOMETHING and curl the thing.
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i do curls while im on the treadmill watching oprah
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Hell, how anyone can go to a gym to just train biceps is beyond me. Even when I was a competitive bodybuilder, I would never have dedicated an entire session to only biceps.
How can you even muster the motivation to leave your house?!
Just grab some soup cans and curl those or something. Yeesh.
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Hell, how anyone can go to a gym to just train biceps is beyond me. Even when I was a competitive bodybuilder, I would never have dedicated an entire session to only biceps.
How can you even muster the motivation to leave your house?!
Just grab some soup cans and curl those or something. Yeesh.
You probably have shit arms. :D
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i once trained biceps and supersetted with triceps, took me a good 3-4 weeks before i was ready for another workout, not taxing my central nervous system like that these days but when i was younger i was quite the madman