I thought he meant and associated isolation arm or leg exercise.
Yes, upper-lower pairing, or abs and something like calf raises or a other isolation exercise.
My circuit is like this:
Press exercise
Hinge exercise
Pull exercise
Single-leg squat or lunge exercise
Abdominal exercise
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Push, Pull, Hinge, Squat, Plank.
Classic, i like it.
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Those are pretty big arms.
No, just possibly slightly better improvement, not a given.
20 inch arms are totally freakish.
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Doesn’t that put you within half an inch of Steeve Reeves?
Well thats what im saying. The difference would not be noticable so the obsession about routines and exercises, sets and reps is not worth it in my experience as we cant change too much anyways…sadly 
Im 6’2 and 260lbs… It looks like i dont have arms 
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A better comparison would be 1) never training biceps directly or 2) directly training biceps with some type of curl. I would think for most people that option 2 will make a noticeable difference. Same thing for something like chest – some lifters will build a really good chest with just the barbell bench press. Others will have a chest that is underdeveloped and looks like crap if that’s all they do. Even though my chest always responded well to the barbell bench, I’ve noticed a difference since switching to dumbbell work and adding in flies.
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Proportions matter. So does shape of muscle. When I lost weight, my arms lost a bit of size, but I got a lot more comments about my arms being big (by delusional people).
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I have experienced the same actually. I’m down 15lbs and have had far more comments about my size now than ever before yet my arms lost about .25" so far 
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In the past I was only concerned with doing the heaviest curls, like barbell curls and hammer curls. Lately, I’ve been doing Arnold Curls and Spider Curls for a few months and I’ve got more bicep peak now than I ever had before. That’s pretty cool.
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Some guys are blessed with big arms, and favorable even fat distribution. Those MFers can look good at 20% BF, and have okay abs and big arms. I got to be like 12% to have abs, and be shredded everywhere else, and my arms will be what women call “toned” lol. At 20% I look like a marshmallow with toothpicks stuck into it.
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I could be wrong but don’t they both hit the brachialis more than other curl variations and thus might add a bit of size underneath the biceps making the entire muscle belly start a bit more far removed from the humerus → higher peak?
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Ya’ll are sleeping on Poundstone Curls
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Easily the best (worst) thing that has happened to my biceps.
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Yes! That’s the idea. Special work to hit muscles that regular stuff doesn’t properly stimulate.
Technically, the info I was going on said that Spider and Arnold curls are for the Short Head, directly for the peak.
But I’ve been doing Zottman curls for the brachialus too.
I tried reverse zottmans and found it to be a bit better tbh. If the goal is to target the brachialis, why wouldn’t you want the reverse grip to be the eccentric portion? Just my opinion, but it worked alright for me
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I google’d Poundstone Curls and it looks like regular BB curls, just with 100 reps… Am I missing something or is this actually all it is?
You can’t argue with results!
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It’s done with an axle. And 100 is the minimum. I go for a PR each week. My current one is 198 reps.
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yikes. Will have to give it a shot!