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!

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