The Best 5 Exercises for Bicep Improvement – The
Upside and the Lowdown – PART THREE
The bottom line is for almost any muscle group there is an exercise and equipment that are available to
improve it. The equipment used will affect the form being used and the specific position the body is in when
an exercise is being performed. Each machine is different. Some target muscle groups while lowering the
torque placed on the body. Other machines do the opposite making the exercise hard to do just because a
different angle is being used and torque to do the exercise using a particular muscle group is just plain harder
to do. No matter what machine or piece of equipment is being used the goal is to create a situation where the
muscle you want to improve has to be used to accomplish each repetition. Featured below are a series of
what are considered the 5 of the best exercises to improve the biceps:
Top Exercise #4 for Bicep Improvement – The Alternating
Dumbbell Curl
This exercise is a straight forward move that is a twin combination of the two curling exercises, the standard
curl and the hammer curl. This exercise targets a routine of doing curls one arm at a time, one after the other,
first left, then right, or vice-versa, with dumbbells. This curls exercise gives a person the ability to get a
definite rhythm going, which gives the person some momentum to do an extended number or repetitions and
sets. It is important to keep the torso still while doing each rep, focusing on the biceps and the shoulders doing
the lifting and not the body’s core.
Top Exercise #5 for Bicep Improvement - The Standing Barbell
Curl
The very best bicep exercise for improving this muscle group is the barbell bicep curl. It has the largest effect
on the body’s bicep muscle group. No matter how much weight you are using on the barbell, light or very
heavy, the bicep muscle group, for the most part will be used to bring the weight up as you lift it to bring the
weight a full 180 degrees from mid-thigh up to your chest. The arm bicep is the primary muscle group the
weight is used to lift the weight when doing a standard curl exercise, without the use to speak of back or
stomach core muscles.
The number one thing to focus on is to remain still, using the bicep by bending the arm at the elbow and
pulling the weight towards your chest. Do this exercise by grabbing the barbell with both hands, arms shoulder
width apart, hands facing out with the weight itself at about upper thigh level, dig your elbows into each side
and then curl the bar up towards your chin while keeping your core, back and elbows still. Slowly lower the
weight down while maintaining momentum slowly. Do not use momentum of the weight going down to
trampoline it back up again.
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