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Blitz Your Biceps for Bigger Arms in 3 Weeks

Has your biceps growth come to a screeching halt? Use this three-week plan to shock them for some serious size gains.

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Seated Incline CableCurl
Ian Spanier and Alex Ardenti
Seated Incline CableCurl
Ian Spanier and Alex Ardenti

Think carefully about your biceps workouts. Do you tend to perform the same exercises over and over at every session—barbell curls, preacher curls, seated dumbbell curls, and so on? Now go ahead and flex your biceps. Are you satisfied with their current size and shape? If the answer is yes (which I doubt), then go ahead and flip to the next article. However, if your answer is no, then please keep reading, because it is my goal to greatly increase ticket sales to your “gun show”. 

Personally, I am a huge advocate of variety when it comes to designing individual training programs. If my 28 years of experience as a competitive bodybuilder and coach have taught me anything, it is that the human body is a profoundly adaptable machine—and because of this, we must continually present new challenges by switching up the stimuli we thrust upon it (that is, exercises, angles, tempos, and techniques).

13 Moves for Bigger Biceps

13 Moves for Bigger Biceps

Add some variety to your arm workouts with these multi-muscle group, exercises.

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While there are many effective ways to tweak your workouts with the goal of pushing past plateaus or staving off stagnation, the one we shall focus on in this article is introducing a few novel movements. Of course, each of the exercises I will present are nothing more than variations of the basic curl. By simply changing the arc of pull, the angle of the torso, and the positioning of the elbows and shoulders, you can attack a unique set of motor unit pools (and muscle fibers). This, along with giving the central nervous system something new to deal with, can help take your biceps development—and arm measurements—to an entirely new level.

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Week 1: Power Workout

Exercise
Equipment
Sets
Reps
Rest
Exercise 3 of 11

Incline Barbell Biceps Curl

Equipment
Sets
3
Reps
5-7
Rest
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Week 2: Rep Range Workout

Exercise
Equipment
Sets
Reps
Rest

Week 3: Shock Workout

Exercise
Equipment
Sets
Reps
Rest
Exercise 7 of 11

Seated Overhead Cable Curl

Equipment
Sets
2
Reps
10-12
Rest
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Superset with Incline Barbell Biceps Curl
Exercise 8 of 11

Incline Barbell Biceps Curl

Equipment
Sets
2
Reps
7-9
Rest
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Superset with Seated Overhead Cable Extension
Exercise 9 of 11

High-cable Curl

Equipment
Cable Machine
Sets
2
Reps
10-12
Rest
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How to
Superset with Incline Dumbbell Biceps Curl
Exercise 11 of 11

EZ-Bar Preacher Curl

Equipment
EZ-Bar, Preacher Bench
Sets
1
Reps
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Rest
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Use barbell or machine. Perform as drop set. 10-12, drop 6-8 more.
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