We all know that very close to the top os bodybuilders shopping list is a large set of impressive biceps. They are one of the most visible and striking muscles that win you lots of plaudits with your peers. What is the reason then that many people, despite many years working out still have biceps that don’t look huge.
Well, it may be of interest to you that this small muscle is often very poorly trained. By that I mean that many people go about building biceps muscle in completely the wrong way.
Here we are going to set a few things straight in order to set you firmly on the way to building muscle mass on your biceps quickly. So here is out brief biceps guide how to build muscle up fast.
1) Your biceps already receive a lot of work in back workouts. So, concentrate on improving at these exercises and your guns will follow and get larger.
2) Don’t overtrain your guns. This is suprisingly easy to do because of the back workouts so don’t do more than a max of 4 sets for your biceps.
3) Select the best exercises. The best mass building exercises for arms are: Pull-ups with an underhand grip followed by rowing exercises. Standing barbell curls will be the only option if you really do feel the need to do more sets. Steer clear of shaping exercises like seated concentration curls which are designed as exercise to shape and carve already large muscles. if that doesn’t sound like you then other exercises will be more suitable.
4) Do reps in the 5-7 range to stimulate the most growth in muscle size. Use a training log to make sure that you are still making progress. This means you know what your previous best lifts are and can use them as motivation to workout hard. Next up muscle building nutrition.
5) Are you ensuring that you are taking on board enough calories. You need to take on loads of calories if you really want to support muscle gains. Eat between 5 and 7 times each and everyday with meals containing fruits, fish, pastas, rice, lean white meats and so on. These are the types of food that will provide qulity nutrional calories that will boost your growth.
6) Ensure you are resting enough. You’ve probably heard before that your muscles do not grow whilst you are pumping iron they grow when you are at rest. Therefore it is only common sense to give them enough rest. If you are not then your attempts to build muscle will be wasted.
So there we have it, our brief muscle building guide to biceps. Check you are following those guidelines and you may just boost your bicep size and build muscle mass quicker than you expected. Go hit it!
