Secondlife2
New Member
Hi everyone,
I'm new to this board and to the weights. At this point I'm trying to work mostly on my form on a lot of the basic exercises. I'm also doing a lot of reading and watching videos of pro bodybuilders, to learn how to train properly.
I noticed that a lot of the pro bodybuilders do a lot of different exercise variations. For example the biceps. The biceps has two heads, a long and a short head and is tri-articulate, meaning that it work across three different joints: the elbow, the shoulder and the proximal radioulnar joint. Because of this it's primary function is to move the forearm towards the shoulder (elbow flexion). The biceps secondary function is supination of the forearm, turning the hand from a palms-down position to a palms-up position.
Now because the biceps has a long and a short head and by looking at the functions of the biceps, wouldn't it be enough to only hit it with a couple of exercises, like rotating incline dumbell curls and rotating dumbell preacher curls. And you could variate these exercises by keeping the dumbells close to each other or wide apart. Think close and wide grip on a barbell.
If you look at it from a biological point of view a lot of the variations seem unnecessary. So why all the different variations?
Thanks in advance.
I'm new to this board and to the weights. At this point I'm trying to work mostly on my form on a lot of the basic exercises. I'm also doing a lot of reading and watching videos of pro bodybuilders, to learn how to train properly.
I noticed that a lot of the pro bodybuilders do a lot of different exercise variations. For example the biceps. The biceps has two heads, a long and a short head and is tri-articulate, meaning that it work across three different joints: the elbow, the shoulder and the proximal radioulnar joint. Because of this it's primary function is to move the forearm towards the shoulder (elbow flexion). The biceps secondary function is supination of the forearm, turning the hand from a palms-down position to a palms-up position.
Now because the biceps has a long and a short head and by looking at the functions of the biceps, wouldn't it be enough to only hit it with a couple of exercises, like rotating incline dumbell curls and rotating dumbell preacher curls. And you could variate these exercises by keeping the dumbells close to each other or wide apart. Think close and wide grip on a barbell.
If you look at it from a biological point of view a lot of the variations seem unnecessary. So why all the different variations?
Thanks in advance.