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question regarding weight lifting

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Mookow

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Actually, not weight lifting so much as muscle isolation. Is there any way to make the lower part of my bicep get bigger faster than the upper half? I do a lot of pull ups and curls, but it seems like the upper half gets a lot bigger. I know it should be bigger, but it looks out of proportion compared to most other people's arms, ie my forearm near the elbow is bigger than the lower part of my upper are. I do have a big forearm from doing manual labor, but it just looks off, at least to me. Am I likely to be screwing something up in my technique here, or am I just built that way?
 
Most likely you are just built that way. Different people have slightly differently shaped muscles and differnent origin and insertion points. The only thing you can do is make sure you are getting a full range of motion on all of your lifts. Other than that, all you can do is change the size of your muscles and their relative size to each other. Anybody who tells you you can change the shape of ONE particular muscle has no idea what they're talking about. Muscles are like balloons. You can change the size, but the general shape is genetically predetermined.
 
Originally posted by: crt1530
Most likely you are just built that way. Different people have slightly differently shaped muscles and differnent origin and insertion points. The only thing you can do is make sure you are getting a full range of motion on all of your lifts. Other than that, all you can do is change the size of your muscles and their relative size to each other. Anybody who tells you you can change the shape of ONE particular muscle has no idea what they're talking about. Muscles are like balloons. You can change the size, but the general shape is genetically predetermined.
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crap.... well, I'm already doing dead hang pullups and full range curls, so I guess I'm screwed
 
Originally posted by: Mookow
Originally posted by: crt1530
Most likely you are just built that way. Different people have slightly differently shaped muscles and differnent origin and insertion points. The only thing you can do is make sure you are getting a full range of motion on all of your lifts. Other than that, all you can do is change the size of your muscles and their relative size to each other. Anybody who tells you you can change the shape of ONE particular muscle has no idea what they're talking about. Muscles are like balloons. You can change the size, but the general shape is genetically predetermined.
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crap.... well, I'm already doing dead hang pullups and full range curls, so I guess I'm screwed
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You can do mid-rom isolation on curls to work your lower bicep head.

 


Try some preacher curls.

They seem to isolate the muscle fairly well (when done correctly), and also seem to hit more of the lower portion of the muscle.


The other guy was right though, people are just built different.

Some people have longer, thinner muscles. While others have shorter, thicker muscles.

 
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