Should I do bicep work?

[Koing]

Originally posted by: skace
I'm a little torn on how I should respond to this... Why do you care what everyone thinks constitutes "buffness"? Worrying about something like that is a good way to get sidetracked and lose focus. Why are you even worried about looks 1 month in? You've got a long, long way to go.

Most importantly, large arms may be a focal point for a lot of lifters, but that is not JUST biceps. Large biceps with small triceps looks retarded. Many different exercises are required to create the kind of large arms that actually look good.

Should you do bicep curls on a day dedicated to your upper body? Sure why not, just don't neglect the other upper body muscles.

Indeed. Care less about what a bunch of clouds in a gym think.

Your doing squats so thats gives you a HUGE start. Hammer the pull ups and do some biceps or variety of curl exercises. BUT DO NOT FORGET YOUR YOUR TRICEPS.

DIPS are king! I hammer out dips religously.

I barely do bicep curls because I'm too lazy. I do about 5 sessions of pull ups a week though . Got to love the ability to pull your own body up really easily.

Koing

 

[presidentender]

Originally posted by: SociallyChallenged

Originally posted by: MegaVovaN

Originally posted by: presidentender
Given that he's asking about starting bicep work, I think it likely that he's also been working his triceps.

Good guess, but no. I didn't do any specific tricep work lately, check my log:
MegaVovaN's Fitness Journal

Right, but even just in bench press, they're getting a great workout. The problem with doing exercises explicitly for biceps is that it may lead to isolation of other muscles (i.e. triceps to balance). At that point, you're just starting to get into bodybuilding. Maybe chinups are the thing that are best worth your time though. Perhaps patience is just the key right now, especially since you're new to all this.

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[onlyCOpunk]

Bicep exercises are just accessory exercises. You shouldn't really be concentrating on your biceps until you've got the basics down especially if you aren't a gym junkie that spends hours a day at the gym.

If you really want to do biceps throw a simple barbell curl in at the end of your routine just to burn and leave it at that. Like others have said your biceps will build from other compound things.