There are many reasons that people want to know how to get bigger biceps. For the majority of people a day at work involves wearing a tie. This of course means that no-one an see your ripped abs, massive chest however they can see your biceps. Maybe this could be one of the reasons can become obsessed with growing huge biceps. It seems a little strange then that lots of people seem to be able to get big pectoral and shoulder muscles but struggle with increasing bicep muscle mass.
Are you also making this common bicep training mistake?
Moving heavy weight is how your muscles grow. The more weight you can lift the more strength and therefore size your muscles will have. However if the bicep muscle is worked in isolation individually it is not very easy to shift much weight at all. This then increases the difficulty in stimulating muscle growth. In short many trainers are doing the wrong exercises to build bicep muscle mass.
So why do bodybuilders train with concentration curls?
Well, quite simply concentration curls are really an exercise for sculpting and shaping the biceps and not for mass. If you have no mass on your guns then you have very little to shape therefore quit doing these type of exercises for good!
OK then, what exercises should I be doing for biceps?
Experiment with underhand grip pullups, bent over rows and indeed any other multi-joint back exercise as these allow you to shift much heavier weight which is exactly what you need to do to in order to build bicep mass. These exercises all utilise much heavier weight. Yes, that is partly because they are training the back muscle too but the side affect is to stress the guns hard. Furthermore have you ever seen anyone with big biceps who did not have impressive back muscles? No, big guns come hand in hand with big back muscles.
So, in brief conclusion use the major compound back exercises and perhaps standing barbell curls also in order to give yourself the best chance of increasing your bicep muscle mass! When you do have big guns then you can use the concentration curls.
So if you want to build up muscles on your biceps train your back hard, eat lots and rest plenty! Indeed if you want to know how to gain weight for skinny guys the above recommendations still apply but you will need to make doubly sure you are eating plenty of calories, now go for it!
