Building Bigger Biceps

For most guys (and girls) the point of lifting weights it to sculpt your body in a way that pleases you.  Most of the time peoples initial reactions when you bring up hitting the gym is to check out your arms, if they haven't already noticed them.  Many gym-goers aspire to have massive biceps more than anything else. Although I often think the biceps get too much attention, they are a nice addition to building better arms.  So many guys kill their arms, trying to make gains and they see little to no results - this is because many mistakes are made when training, that just a few tips can help:

1. Don't overtrain! - Your biceps are small in comparison to your chest, back, and legs, when pushing them to their limits, they need much more time to recover.  After you tear them down, they build as they regrow. Keep that in mind.

2. Improper form or wasteful exercises - As with most other weighted exercises, you want to control the weight, don't let it fling you around. Don't be embarrassed to pick up the 15lbs to finish your curl set, there's no shame in dropping weight.  When you start breaking down the body, learning it's anatomy, you find that there are many muscles you have that you didn't know about. The BIcep, is a two headed muscle, the larger one being the biceps brachii, smaller being the brachialis.  The basic dumbbell curl only works the brachii, which will cause you to develop a short round bicep, that looks unnatural and quite frankly, hideous.  You can train the brachialis by turning your forearms outward, or having a wider grip on the barbell.  A recent study showed that the biceps exert more force and power, therefore building larger in a shorter amount of time, when being trained with straight barbells versus an EZ bar.

3. Diet! - I've said it before and I'll say a million more times, you aren't going to get to where you want to be if you don't eat right.  You wanna get big? Eat big.  Training your muscles as hard as you can is just going to go to waste if you don't fuel them with protein, carbs and calories immediately following training, and the days afterward.  Are you a hard gainer? GOMAD - Gallon of milk a day - Whole Milk!

I got many of these tips from this link, I suggest you go read it if you have the time.  Good luck and thank you for reading!