Question About Barbell Curls.

[wesrman]

Try using less weight and better form on your barbell curls and all biceps exercises. You really have to concentrate on form and feeling it in the muscle to get good results.

To add weight to your pull ups try puting a dumbell between your calves or thighs. works great and you dont need to buy a belt.

Another good exercise for biceps is incline curls.

Heres a couple things that might help you as you try to add mass.

Feel like posting your self-made-and-likely-inefficient split? Maybe Read this first - WorldFitness Training Forum

T-Nation.com | Bulking Tips for Newbies

Wrist Strength Exercises - GripFAQ.com

Good luck.

[ICB]

Try using less weight and better form on your barbell curls and all biceps exercises. You really have to concentrate on form and feeling it in the muscle to get good results.

To add weight to your pull ups try puting a dumbell between your calves or thighs. works great and you dont need to buy a belt.

Another good exercise for biceps is incline curls.

Heres a couple things that might help you as you try to add mass.

Feel like posting your self-made-and-likely-inefficient split? Maybe Read this first - WorldFitness Training Forum

T-Nation.com | Bulking Tips for Newbies

Wrist Strength Exercises - GripFAQ.com

Good luck.

Cheers bro appreciate it you seem to know alot about body-building, so i was wondering my goal is too put on between 8 or 10 pounds of muscle, by the summer is that realistically possible ?

I did put on quite a bit muscle when i started weight training at 17, but ever since i was about almost 19 and im 19 now by the way, i was 19 on September 30th, i haven't seen much results. Granted i was doing alot of boxing training then, training for fights.

But i still had no trouble putting on muscle before even when i was doing boxing training. So i was just wondering if the goal above is possible ?

[wesrman]

Ya its possible, but it depends on how much fat you are willing to add and a few other factors (genetics, other activities etc). Im guessing you want to add 10 pounds of mostly muscle so thats harder than just 10 lbs of weight.

[Drago]

i had something like forearm splinted(abt 10 yrs ago), when i was curling the bar it was like a ton of pressure pushing on my forearms, then when i put the weight down and released the bar shooting pains went thru my forearms. very painfull much like splinted shins when i used to play football(soccer).

it just disappeared over time. but the other 2 guys i trained with also developed this a few mths later

still to this day dont know why?


strange

[Drago]

i had something like forearm splinted(abt 10 yrs ago), when i was curling the bar it was like a ton of pressure pushing on my forearms, then when i put the weight down and released the bar shooting pains went thru my forearms. very painfull much like splinted shins when i used to play football(soccer).

it just disappeared over time. but the other 2 guys i trained with also developed this a few mths later

still to this day dont know why?


strange

does this sound familiar?

[ICB]

i had something like forearm splinted(abt 10 yrs ago), when i was curling the bar it was like a ton of pressure pushing on my forearms, then when i put the weight down and released the bar shooting pains went thru my forearms. very painfull much like splinted shins when i used to play football(soccer).

it just disappeared over time. but the other 2 guys i trained with also developed this a few mths later

still to this day dont know why?


strange

It sounds similar to what i get i don't know why but it is very painful everytime i do it. And normally my body helps curl it up even when i try not to, i do put my back against a wall to help it but still my Biceps aren't doing all the work. Thats why i like the EZ-Bar much better, because it stops the pain and its a much more comfortable position, you should check it out.

[Sharla]

i had something like forearm splinted(abt 10 yrs ago), when i was curling the bar it was like a ton of pressure pushing on my forearms, then when i put the weight down and released the bar shooting pains went thru my forearms. very painfull much like splinted shins when i used to play football(soccer).

it just disappeared over time. but the other 2 guys i trained with also developed this a few mths later

still to this day dont know why?


strange

It sounds similar to what i get i don't know why but it is very painful everytime i do it. And normally my body helps curl it up even when i try not to, i do put my back against a wall to help it but still my Biceps aren't doing all the work. Thats why i like the EZ-Bar much better, because it stops the pain and its a much more comfortable position, you should check it out.

Do you think if you are using other muscles in your body to haul it up the first thing you might want to do is cut the weight down until you are no longer doing that?

[ICB]

i had something like forearm splinted(abt 10 yrs ago), when i was curling the bar it was like a ton of pressure pushing on my forearms, then when i put the weight down and released the bar shooting pains went thru my forearms. very painfull much like splinted shins when i used to play football(soccer).

it just disappeared over time. but the other 2 guys i trained with also developed this a few mths later

still to this day dont know why?


strange

It sounds similar to what i get i don't know why but it is very painful everytime i do it. And normally my body helps curl it up even when i try not to, i do put my back against a wall to help it but still my Biceps aren't doing all the work. Thats why i like the EZ-Bar much better, because it stops the pain and its a much more comfortable position, you should check it out.

Do you think if you are using other muscles in your body to haul it up the first thing you might want to do is cut the weight down until you are no longer doing that?

Well i used to be able to fight through the pain and get used to the weight, then move up but i hit a bit of a snag. Im gonna go with Donny/Chris advice and do some more Dumbell work from now on.