Look, you're not impressing ANYONE , especially that cute red head over by the water
cooler, by stacking up the EZ curl with massive weight and flopping your body all
over the place like a hooked bass, your arms barely lowering the weight to full
extension.
You MUST start EVERY SINGLE REPETITION with your arms FULLY EXTENDED . (Yes...I
KNOW this makes the exercise HARDER , now grab a tissue, wipe away the tears, and
get back to work.)
A little trick to help you accomplish this is to first briefly (like a split-second)
flex your TRICEPS before raising the weight each rep. Since the ONLY way to do this
is to FULLY extend your arm, you'll KNOW you've begun each rep in the optimum starting
position to stimulate new muscle growth.
STEP 3: RECRUIT YOUR "MAIN SQUEEZE"
To get your biceps to BECOME bigger, you first have to show them what it's like
to BE bigger.
Here's how it's done...
At the very top of your curl, when your bicep has peaked, SQUEEZE the muscle hard
for approximately 1-2 seconds. Your curls will make your muscles contract, effectively
setting up a "road block" in your bicep. That final squeeze you add
will literally FORCE blood, water, and lactic acid into the contracted muscle, causing
an intense "pump".
In response, the muscle cells themselves begin to THICKEN , the capillaries within
the muscle grow in NUMBER and SIZE to hold more fluid, and "satellite"
stem cells split off to form NEW muscle fibers, already pre-programmed for growth.
SUMMARY:
Well, there you have it...but NOW comes the HARD PART . And NO, I'm NOT talking
about picking the weight up and starting your curls.
The hard part will be forcing yourself to actually DECREASE the weight you currently
use because chances are, you've been working too heavy in order to pad your ego,
while sacrificing the most effective ego-booster... BIGGER BICEPS ! But trust
me, the growth you'll get from incorporating these 3 principles will MORE than compensate
for your initially bruised ego.