Biceps Workout in ONE Set

Let's talk about how to get bigger biceps by understanding what this glove has to do

with it.

And no, it has nothing to do with actually putting it on your hand.

It's about understanding how this relates to the different types of contraction, understanding

those contractions,

and more importantly, implementing them into your workouts so that you can get the most

out of them.

I'm going to show you exactly how to do it on a bicep exercise in 1 minute. First of

all, the types of contractions that we have.

If you guys have been training for any length of time you understand there are concentric

contractions, isometric contractions, and eccentric contractions.

But ideally, you don't want to just understand the difference, you want to implement them,

like I said, into your workouts.

The isometric contraction we know, that's just when we have force-generated tension

in the muscle but without movement at the joint.

Secondly, we have the concentric contraction. That's the one we're all familiar with where

we actually shorten the muscle as we move through the range of motion, k.

So, you're shortening as you're contracting and generating tension in the muscle. And

then an eccentric contraction is tension in a muscle with lengthening

because the exterior load is greater than the force that we can generate in the muscle

so we have an elongation of that joint.

Now, here's the deal. I have this glove here to sort of show you why there's differences

in your strength levels in each one of these.

This here is going to represent sort of our shortening, our concentric contraction, and

the amount of force that we can generate is

really equal to the amount of force and the recruitment abilities we have of our body

to be able to shorten that muscle, alright,

the amount of muscle fiber engagement we can generate to shorten that muscle. There's a

good amount of force there for sure.

But what happens when we start to get into an isometric and eccentric version of this

is we get help,

mechanical help from the muscle itself and how it's structured and the crossbridge is

formed. So, when we look at a piece of velcro, if we put this on top now,

this is an isometric contraction. We have the help of the crossbridges being formed

to allow us to actually hook on and stay in that position.

Our isometric strength is therefore about 20 percent stronger than it is our concentric

strength. Eccentrically, if I actually tried to start grabbing this and pulling it really

hard,

but of course I can pull it that way, but if I try to drag it across there, it's really

hard and I'm a lot stronger there.

And we are in real life, 40 percent stronger eccentrically than we are concentrically because

we have that friction generated by the crossbridges.

So, what does that all mean for us here? It means, if you want to take a set to true failure

and promote muscle gains in your biceps,

you're going to want to go through concentric failure first, isometrics failure second,

eccentric failure third.

You do it right here very simply. We get up here, we set up for a Cable Curl, ok.

The Cable Curl is, our arms are up high. Again, we can promote shoulder flexion by having

our arms elevated which is part of a bicep contraction.

So, we're here. We're going to pull in, k, and we're going to work to concentric failure.

Keeping those elbows high.

Til I can't really execute another good rep.

Now, right into our, right into our isometric failure. So we can bump up the weight just

a little bit more because we're a little bit stronger there.

We're going to flex-generate tension, walk back, and hold them up now.

And we just hold it there isometrically. Again, this is a heavier weight.

And even though I went to failure concentrically, I still can maintain a contraction here, but

not much longer.

And now, isometric down. Now eccentric. We bump up the weight even more. Again, already

to failure twice.

Get back in here. Flex 'em at 90 degrees here. Walk it back. And it's pulling me out. Come

in.

There. Walk it back, and it lengthens. Here. You can even lean back. And down.

Set it up.

Couple more.

One more.

Until you really can't decelerate that anymore. Now, for any of you that say, 'Well, I don't

have a big machine to do that with.'

All you've got to do is hook up your bands. Again, single them up, work on them.

Do here for your first ones. And then if you have to go for the eccentric, just double

them up so you have extra tension, alright.

Guys, it could take you about 2 and a half minutes to do one of these sets, and theoretically,

some would say,

'You've gone to concentric failure. You've gone to isometric failure. You've gone to

eccentric failure. What else is left?'

Not much. Do it a few times. I guarantee, if you haven't trained all 3 in the same workout,

you're certainly going to be sore.

You going to certainly feel it for a few days afterwards, and most likely you're going to

start to see gains by doing that.

Guys, start putting muscle science and physiology back to work for you so you can get better

gains in a shorter period of time.

It's about doing more work, doing more effort, and getting better results.

I say it, guys, you've seen me say it before, 'Someday is not a day of the week.'

Start putting science back into your strength and see what it can do for you.

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