Arms Workout 20/11/23

 Today's workout was biceps, which still remains a relatively novel thing for me, having gone the last ten or so years with probs a dozen arms workouts only to count. But becoming a regular occurance now, since I went back to training like a Bodybuilding roughly 6 months back.

I still need to try and train arms a wee bit more regularly, but I'm averaging a workout once about every 2 weeks, so infinitely more than before when I was still powerlifting.

Today my triceps are very much aching, from my shoulders workout 2 days ago, so just biceps today. Normally I like to open up with a heavier free weight based routine, such as EZ or olympic curls. Followed by preachers, but today I wanted to mix things up a bit. Variety is the spice of life.

So I did some banded curls instead. This was a bit of an improvised routine as I don't have cables in my gym. But I love the feel of bands on movements like this. They dig in real deep into the muscle, and the pump is insane.

I had no idea what weight I could achieve, so played around with an ascending bar, until I reached my sweet spot... which happened to be the heaviest band I have lol so a good thing as I wouldn't have been able to go heavier.

I could feel my bicep tear (from Febuary this year) on my left arm, on the heaviest resistance, but I didn't feel worried. It didn't hurt so I pushed through and felt it did the injury a lot of good, conditioning it towards handling heavier weights.

I then did a movement that I call peakers. Nowt idea their proper name, but it's something I learnt from, watching Markus Rühl IFBB Pro train in the early 2000s. Every time I do them I think of his mahoooosive 24" arms and his words "these are pretty boys who like to look good!" Hahah

Lastly I did some more functional work. Although I'm training with a more Bodybuilding purpose, I still want to maintain strength and function as much as possible. So as a powerful arm wrestler I did a movement I created for said purpose. This helps engage the biceps with a twisting motion that works their pronation capacity, perfect for helping develop each individual head within the biceps muscle. It also begins to engage the forearms. Which I later trained (off camera) to the max. No better feeling than not being able to open your hand due to Forearm cramp!

Cheers and beers lads and lasses for reading my training journal. Big Al