Common exercises that allow you to build
bicep muscles without weights include:
Not exact matches
To start, just push an isolation move to get all the gears rolling and the blood flowing towards your arms, but also to get your
biceps and triceps working
without the interference of other
muscles.
If you train only the chest
muscles without training the antagonising upper back
muscles, your shoulders are going to be permanently hunched forward — just like your arms are held bent when you train only your
biceps and neglect your triceps.
For
muscle size and strength choose
biceps exercises for mass that allow you to keep your repetitions to between 6 - 10 and increase the difficulty of the exercise or choose more demanding
biceps exercises
without weights to keep within the range required.
Although I said you have to keep the repetition range between 6 - 10 to build strength and
muscle and although this correct, the single
biceps exercise
without weights doesn't actually consist of any repetitions at all but is in fact static holds involving the humble chin up.
Chin ups — are defiantly the most famous
biceps exercise
without weights and are very effective at building a foundation of
muscle and strength, having said that, once you can do more than 3 - 4 sets of 10 repetitions you must increase the difficulty of the exercise to continue making progress.
And he did all of this
without losing
muscle from his
biceps.
The problem is that once you get out of your 15 - years - old - bench - and -
biceps - three - days - a-week routine, it becomes impossible to gain
muscle without gaining some fat to go along with it.