The set also comes with a door achor that allows you to perform many additional exercises (including: twists, pulldowns, leg curls, crunches,
straight arm curls, tricep pressdowns and so much more!).
Not exact matches
Keeping your back and
arms completely
straight, bend at the hips and lower the dumbbells as low as you can without
curling your back.
Keeping your
arms very
straight,
curl your toes under and lift your hips up and back away from your hands, creating one
straight line between your wrists, shoulders, and sit bones.
Your biceps is fully involved in the
curl only in the second half of your range of motion, but when your
arm is completely
straight, your brachialis and brachiradialis, which are your deep muscle beneath your biceps and a big forearm muscle on the inside of your
arm respectively, lift the weight until about halfway through the movement, when you've only come to a 90 degree angle from the original 180 (a
straight arm).
If you want to make your
arms bigger, you will need to stay with the basic principles of bodybuilding, so use compound movements such as the
straight bar
curls and skull crushers.
Starting with your
arms straight at your side, bend the elbow and
curl the
arm up towards your chest, hold, then lower back down.
Starting with your
arms straight, flex your elbows and
curl the bar up to shoulder - height.
Curl your weights up to your chest, then fully extend your
arms straight and repeat.
• Standing dumbbell
curls: 4 sets 12,10,8,8 • Standing cable rope pull downs: 5 sets 15,12,10,10,8 • Standing hammer
curls: 4 sets 12,10,8,8 • Standing Triceps push down: 5 sets 15,12,10,10,8 • Standing
straight bar
arm curls: 4 sets 10,10,8,8 • Dips on bench: 4 sets of at least 20 reps 20,20,20,20 • Seated concentration
curls or seated machine
curls: 3 sets - failure • Single
arm reverse cable pull downs: 3 sets of at least 20 20,20,20 • 10 - 15 mins on bike or treadmill
Start with both
arms straight and begin to
curl the
arms up and towards the chest.
Biceps standing biceps
curl with
straight bar and
arm blaster, standing biceps
curl with
straight bar and narrow grip, standing dumbbell
curl with palms up.
An example of this would be working out your biceps at different angles and muscle lengths, an example would be preacher
curls and
straight arm cable
curls.
day 1
ARMS - standing
curl - 15,12,10,8,8 - incline hammer
curl - 12,10,10,8 - concentration
curl - 12,10,10,8 - bench press - 15,12,10,6 - reverse wrist
curl - 15,12,10,8 - wrist
curl - 20,15,12,10,8 - laydown tricep ext - 15,12,10,8 - tricep kickback - 15,12,10,8 Day 2 legs - dumbell lunges - 16,12,10,10,8 - calf ext - 25,20,20,20 - sitting calf ext - 20,20,20 - mule calf ext - 20,20,20 - squats - 15,12,10,10 - hamstring
curl - 15,12,10,8,8 - leg ext - 15,12,10,8,8 Day 3 Shoulders and back - side
arm lift - 15,12,10,8,8 - single
arm dumbbell pull - 15,12,10,8,8 - front barbell press - 12,8,6,6 -
straight leg dead lift - 15,12,10,8,8,8 - dumbbell shoulder press - 12,10,8 - drop set - 8,10,12 - overhead laydown barbell pull - 12,8,8,8 - front dumbbell lift - 15,12,10,8,8 - laydown reverse butterfly - 12,10,10,10 -25 #plate front lift with barbell shrugs superset - 12/15, 12 / 12,12 / 10,12 / 8,12 / 8 I space these out over 7 days and do various exercises in between, generally pushups, crunches, other calisthenics, and walking / jogging.
Basic Exercises with this equipment: Lat Pulldown, Seated Rows,
Straight Arm Lat Pulldown, Tricep Pushdown,
Curls.
Curl the hands up from fully extended to the shoulders, then press your
arms straight overhead.
trap - bar bent - legged deadlift 1 x 15 - 20 followed immediately by Rader chest pull 1 x 20 rest 5 minutes supine leg
curl 1 x 10 - 15 seated calf raise 1 x 15 - 20 D.A.R.D. raise 1 x 8 - 12 barbell side bend 1 x 8 - 12 barbell bench press 1 x 8 - 12 chin - up or pull - down 2 x 8 - 12 military barbell overhead press 2 x 8 - 12 shrug 2 x 8 - 12 close - grip bench press 2 x 8 - 12 standing biceps
curl with
straight bar and
arm blaster 1 x 8 - 12 hammer
curl 1 x 8 - 12 crunch 1 x 15 - 20 reverse crunch 1 x 10 - 15
bent - legged deadlift with Olympic bar 2 x 8 - 10 followed immediately by light dumbbell pullover 2 x 15 rest 5 minutes after both sets one - legged calf raise 1 x 15 - 20 D.A.R.D. raise 1 x 8 - 10 leg press on angled leg press machine 1 x 10 - 12 dumbbell bench press 1 x 8 - 10 incline dumbbell flye 1 x 8 - 10 pullover 1 x 8 - 10 barbell row with underhand grip 1 x 8 - 10 dumbbell overhead press with 1 dumbbell 1 x 8 - 10 shrug 1 x 6 - 8 seated overhead triceps dumbbell extension 1 x 8 - 10 standing biceps
curl with
straight bar and
arm blaster 1 x 8 - 10 hammer
curl 1 x 8 - 10 crunch 1 x 15 - 20
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.
For example, if you were doing standing barbell
curls, one rep would be moving the barbell once by
curling it from the starting position, which is standing with your
arms straight down holding the bar in front of your thighs, raising it to in front of your chest, and lowering it to the starting position.