Hey folks. Getting bigger biceps definitely involves a lot of hard work. That was my goal at the gym today.
The first thing you must learn is if you have a strong enough mind-muscle connection in your biceps. You discover this by forcefully contracting your biceps muscles while lifting. The first exercise is the strict biceps curl. Perform these curls to failure. When you do, your veins will start popping.
This is the result of lowering the weight slowly and controlled.
The next exercise requires nothing but a pull up bar and your own bodyweight. In order to build bigger biceps you simply flex and hold as long as possible and fight the negative, as I am doing here. (Thanks to my trainer for videotaping me.)
By allowing yourself to slow down on the eccentric, you are taking advantage of the time under tension that allows you to get the most out of the exercise. Once you nail the mechanics of the strict curl and the pull up, you can bring the same form into your other exercises. Remember, it's not the exercises you are doing, but how you do them. Today I blasted my biceps and I think it shows. By making some slight tweaks to the exercise, you will be sure to get the form right every single time.
P.S. After the gym, I got in a 10-mile run at the High Bridge Trail. It netted me 22,435 steps. Glory be to God!