How not to do barbell curls.

Hey, Need2 I've seen much worse! Actually, Arnie built some pretty big guns doing curls just like that (some of the time anyway and I know he had chemical assistance but, well, you know... )! I reckon cheat curls have their place. At the end of a cycle you can use them to allow you to continue to increase the load. I would suggest a much better eccentric though to really allow for more TUT on the muscle tissue. Too much momentum, as in this example, robs you of the needed strain during the concentric so you might as well focus on the negative.
 
Oh C'mon! That's a lower back workout! He's not doing curls!
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"standing barbell hypers" anyone?
 
I like the picture of him to the left, flexing his arm. Yeah, see, that's what kind of guns those curls get you.

Maybe it's just me, and I'm too used to huge guys, but those don't look special to me at all. Arms like his are a dime a dozen. Maybe if he did proper curls, his arms would actually have some real size... but this guy isn't really that big anyway, so probably not. (Yes, I know, he's bigger than I am, but again, guys bigger than me are also a dime a dozen, so I'm allowed to be critical.)
 
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(bgates1654 @ May 12 2007,20:07)</div><div id="QUOTEHEAD">QUOTE</div><div id="QUOTE">Reverse grip power cleans?</div>
ROTFLMAO!!
 
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(bgates1654 @ May 12 2007,20:07)</div><div id="QUOTEHEAD">QUOTE</div><div id="QUOTE">Reverse grip power cleans?</div>
Thats what I was thinking.
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Just my luck the guy has to be from Michigan....seems we have enough problems in this state without having him anounce he's from here.
 
Yeah, rather do them properly, I guess sometimes one can do cheat curls but those were just too much cheat, might as well not do them, unless of course as quad puts it &quot;standing barbel hypers&quot;
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If he lowered the weight as slowly as possible then the exercise would have a completely different effect. He is probably using too much weight though to be able to do slow enough negatives (2 seconds or more (IMO)).
 
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(Runjor @ May 15 2007,15:34)</div><div id="QUOTEHEAD">QUOTE</div><div id="QUOTE">so are you guys saying that he was doing them incorrectly?




ha ha just kidding....</div>
no his cheating curls were perfect
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(bgates1654 @ May 12 2007,20:07)</div><div id="QUOTEHEAD">QUOTE</div><div id="QUOTE">Reverse grip power cleans?</div>
I think they should be called Reverse Grip Hang Power Cleans
 
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