Everybody has witnessed the inexperienced people in the gym who stand in the weight section with a full barbell doing bicep barbell curls. Actually, maybe they shouldn’t be called curls; they’re more along the line of massive back heaves. They throw on way more weight then they should be training with, and then cycle through a bunch of funny body movements in an attempt to get the barbell from their waist to their chin.
Cheating can be good sometimes for bodybuilding workouts. The end result of training for bodybuilders is to enhance the muscle area by bringing it as much blood that’s enriched with protein and oxygen as it can. So if incorrect use towards the last couple of reps in a set helps the bodybuilder to flow a greater amount of blood to that area, it’s a beneficial variable. Now that we know it’s good to do, the only issue that remains is figuring out how much this should be used. At what point does the incorrect procedure end in the muscle not being hit, and the workout to train biceps becomes meaningless?
The barbell curl has the greatest amount of effect, and is probably the most used form of training the biceps. In order to do one, you stand with the feet shoulder-width apart while grabbing the barbell with an underhand grip, then you bring the bar out and up in a slow and arc motion. Once the barbell is at the chin, your biceps should be fully flexed, and then keeping them flexed you should lower the bar in a slow motion. During the curl your elbows should not move, and there should be no swinging motion to your back. Only the biceps should handle most of the burden of this exercise.
After several reps of this exercise, the arms can be filled with blood and lactic acid. At this point, you can’t complete any more curls while using the correct form. This is the point of failure. Once you’ve reached failure for the biceps, you can find other results by continuing the exercise, but in a different way. While curling, there is a bump somewhere in the middle on the way up to the chin that is hard to get over, so if you’ve reached failure using the right procedure, complete another few reps using other muscles to sort of swing the barbell to help you past this point. This doesn’t hit the bicep directly, but will help flow more blood to that muscle region.
Cheating should only be done if failure has been reached after using the correct procedure. It’s not as effective for other muscle groups, but it can be a useful tool for helping build more muscle once the failure point is reached.
shanti bhushan pathak
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