Friday, 17 June 2011

Secrets behind my achievements (Biceps)

So I've decided to give a few specific tips as to what my secret behind a few areas that a lot of people struggle with. Determination and will aside,  without doing the right thing won't make the slightest bit of difference, I watched many many times when someone would do everything they possibly could, lift big and do cardio and eat right as much as they could and yet they still would end up looking like a blob or just mass, not the physique that people strive for.

I will be big headed as to say a lot of people would strive to have a physique such as mine, although of course not the same size legs but up top, pretty much all round in good shape. Some body parts improved better than others and reacted differently to how I would go about training each part.

Now the secret behind my arms, apart from of course the extreme pumps I was getting from No Xplode I took on an exercise I found from Bodybuilding.com which was pretty intense. A lot of people dislike this because it also takes it's toll on the outside part of your shoulder. So the reps go like this

First part of set 1 (weight you can do just about 10 reps with)
  • 8-10 Full reps of winged biceps hammers
  • 8-10 6-8inch pulsing reps up to about a 90 degree angle (so that arms are constantly tensed)
  • Half distance rep hold for as long as possible
Second part of set 1 (weight roughly 4-6 kgs lower than the first)
  • 4-8 Full reps
 Third part of set 1 (Another 4-6kgs lower)
  • 8-10 Full rep followed by half reps
  •  10-12 pulses
  • Hold for as long as possible
This exercise doesn't concentrate on the main part of your biceps, which you might find odd. In fact it trains a muscle which most people don't even know exists. The brachii is the anatomical name of the main part of the bicep we all love to train and get pumped with, but the muscle being trained here is the brachialis. This is the muscle that sits underneath your brachii and by training this muscle, you will send your arm size skyward. Within a matter of two weeks of using this exercise my biceps grew considerably, enough for a lot of people to start noticing my size.

Also an advantage of this exercise is that it trains the outside part of your shoulder. Now the benefit of this is that it gives the illusion your biceps are even bigger as the part in between your shoulder and biceps seem deeper and more cut the bigger both of them get.

This doesn't mean this is the only exercise you should perform. This is just one part of training your biceps, as all muscles need a kick up the butt every once in a while or a shock to the system to do something different than normal. Muscles do get used to doing the same exercise day in day out, therefore doing bicep curls every day you may feel like a monster because they recover so quick, but they only recover so quickly because they are prepared to do what you put in front of them. Driving in a straight line is also easy, you have to put a few bends in the road to make it a challenge!

I'll try and get some pics up to go with the exercise as soon as I get a chance.

Peace!

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