Curl Bars are Good for Bicep Workout
February 12, 2010 by amy
Filed under Bars and Collars
To workout your biceps, you must curve your arm at a 90-degree angle. However, what you bend it with can make or break your bicep workout; hence use curl bars.
Many people have problems in bicep curl workout with a straight barbell. As to many it feels as if the straight bar sends shooting pains up the forearms during the curl.
Fitness gurus think this is since the wrists are forced to remain rigid. As a result this fatigues the forearms before the biceps have had enough the workout.
Many fitness gurus feel that by using the curl bar, you are preventing yourself from exhausting the biceps and giving them an adequate workout. A curl bar (or an easy curl bar, as they’re also called) is a good addition to bicep exercises then the forearm weakness doesn’t occur and you are able to do the bicep workout to the maximum.
So always choose curl bars to do bicep workout.
Well you can try the straight bar first but you will surely realize that it is uncomfortable substitute to the curl bar. Either way, you’re getting the same bicep workout, comfortable or uncomfortable. You can find curl bars which are 47-inches in length. Just remember that if you buy an Olympic curl bar it will only fit Olympic plates and vise-versa with the standard bar.
As I mentioned, in order to isolate your biceps workout it’s very important to keep your elbows fixed at your side throughout the exercise with curl bars.
If your elbows flare out or if you have to move your body forward or backward to get the curl bar up, change to a lower weight. As with any weight lifting exercise, it’s important to use proper form to isolate the proper muscle. Since the biceps are a smaller muscle, you should start the workout light and increase the weight after you’ve nailed your form down.