Hot Tip: Add or remove things from your gym bag so you have a good resistance that you can feel, and still allows you to complete the reps.. For example, I leave my laptop in my bag when I'm doing the 21's, and take it out
for the hammer curls.
Not exact matches
After
hammering home
for 12 yards, Janssen's confidence looked boosted and he did well in the second half, coming close to scoring again — this time with a
curling effort from long - range.
The thick padding on the foam roller is perfect
for leg workouts and the
curler bicep pad helps you do
hammer curls with ease and without putting too much strain on your back.
Now that you've found your groove, give this
hammer curl to overhead press combo a whirl
for a while.
For example, you can perform barbell reverse
curls with a medium palms - down grip or
hammer curls with a thumbs - up grip.
For his biceps and triceps, he starts by doing 4 sets of 12 reps of preacher
curls, then the same amount of dumbbell bicep
curls,
hammer curls, barbell
curls, triceps pushdowns (with a rope attachment), triceps overhead extensions (also with a rope) and a single set of triceps dips until he reaches muscle failure.
You can also perform neutral - grip barbell
curls and rope
hammer curls for the goal of building additional arm size and width.
Hammer curls are a perfect low - intensity exercise
for building of the brachialis, which is an important muscle in the upper arm that's activated during isometric elbow flexion.
Since it's a highly effective isolation movement
for the brachialis and brachioradialis, the cable rope
hammer curl should be an integral part of any workout designed
for building massive biceps and forearms.
Hammer Curls are an excellent exercise
for any level of lifting experience.
First pick a biceps movement that works
for you, a movement like preacher
curls, standing barbell
curls or
hammer curls.
Hammer curls, especially with a fat bar, is great
for building massive forearms.
The 2 forms of wrist
curls with blast your extensors / flexors and the
hammer curls will really work that brachioradialis
for added size.
Also,
hammer curls do an excellent job distributing the workload to all of the muscles responsible
for elbow flexion.
2B) Superset with Dumbbell
hammer curls standing on one leg (3 sets of 10 reps, light weight)-- again,
for stability.
For example, you can alternate
hammer curls in between your preacher
curl sets.
The rest of the bench day was higher volume accessory stuff, o / h press, shoulders, rows,
hammer curls, tri's, all
for hypertrophy.
For my arms I like to do preacher
curls,
hammer curls and incline dumbell
curls.
FIRST incline press using thick bar 1 x 8 - 10 incline dumbbell flye 1 x 15 - 20 incline press using thick bar 1 x 8 - 10 dumbbell bench press 1 x 8 - 10 flat bench dumbbell flye 1 x 15 - 20 dumbbell bench press 1 x 8 - 10 front pulldown or chin 1 x 8 - 10 stiff - arm pulldown 1 x 15 - 20 front pulldown or chin 1 x 8 - 10 one dumbbell pullover drop set of 3 x 8 close - grip bench press 1 x 8 - 10 pushdown with rope handle 1 x 15 - 20 close - grip bench press 1 x 8 - 10 seated overhead (one - arm) extension drop set 3 x 8 incline or hanging kneeups 1 x 8 - 10 ab - bench crunch 1 x 15 - 20 incline or hanging kneeups 1 x 8 - 10 SECOND [2] dumbbell upright row 1 x 8 - 10 standing forward - lean lateral raise 1 x 15 - 20 [2] dumbbell upright row 1 x 8 - 10 dumbbell (two - arm) press drop set 3 x 8 incline one - arm dumbbell lateral 1 x 8 bent - over dumbbell lateral drop set 3 x 8 dumbbell (two - arm) row on high bench 1 x 8 - 10 seated bent - arm bent - over dumbbell lateral 1 x 15 - 20 dumbbell (two - arm) row on high bench 1 x 8 - 10 one - arm dumbbell row 1 x 8 - 10 barbell shrug [wrist straps or hooks are fine] 1 x 15 - 20 standing dumbbell
curl w arm - blaster 1 x 8 - 10 spider
curl with E-Z
curl bar 1 x 15 - 20 cable
curl with straight bar 1 x 8 - 10 incline (two - arm)
curl drop set 3 x 8 incline (two - arm)
hammer curl drop set 3 x 8 rotator cuff with ShoulderHorn and dumbbells 1 x 8 - 10 hang from chinning bar'til failure THIRD front squat 1 x 6 - 8 leg extension 1 x 15 - 20 front squat 1 x 6 - 8 sissy squat 1 x 8 - 10 supine leg
curl 1 x 15 - 20 leg press on angled leg press 1 x 8 - 10 stiff - legged deadlift 1 x 8 - 10 immediately followed by back extension 1 x 30 - 50 (no weight) 5 minute rest leg press calf raise 1 x 20 leg press calf raise 1 x 15 standing calf raise 1 x 12 - 15 seated calf raise 1 x 12 - 15 D.A.R.D raise 1 x 8 - 10 4 - way neck work with towel — 1 15 - second rep
for each of the 4 ways TIPS
for using this program in your weight lifting routines:
A: breathing squat 1 x 20 immediately followed by stiff - arm pullover 1 x 20 5 minutes rest good morning 2 x 8 incline bench press using thick bar 3 x 5 seated cable row using shoulder - width bar 3 x 7 close - grip bench press using reverse grip 3 x 7 hang from chinning bar until failure gripper work B: trap - bar deadlift 3 x 5 trap - bar deadlift
for four progressively heavy singles 5 minute rest seated overhead press using thick bar (in front) 3 x 5 - 7 standing biceps
curl with straight bar and narrow grip 3 x 8 - 10 seated alternate
hammer curl 2 x 8 - 10 thick bar hold with overhand grip: twice to failure (20 to 40 seconds each) weighted crunch using ab - mat or ab - bench 1 x 20 - 25 Notice that you are no longer limited to the exercises in the McRobert books.