Why do people add incline DB curls to their routine, but perform them like this? [ICCurl] Lean back, lift your chest.

For the same reason people claim to overhead press but slouch and turn it into an incline press. They want to lift as much weight as possible as the sacrifice of targeting the desired muscle. They just don’t know better.

As long as you’re still stretching the biceps to the max extent possible with this positioning, I don’t see an issue tbh.

are you stretching maximal though if the shoulder girdle is rotated like the pic? Wouldn’t you stretch the biceps more by laying back and lifting the chest?

This is basically arguing the whole “pinkey’s up during Lateral Delt Raises” thing, and it probably doesn’t matter at all. Sure, some movement potential could be lost - but I would go out on a limb and say that no one with >20" arms is saying “it’s because they kept their shoulders back and chest u…

Biceps do not benefit from the extreme full ROM many people do on inclines and preacher curls. Chris Beardsley has a good article on a study that was done. I believe the same was found for triceps.

Just my 2 cents, but many focus too much on form, and many too little. It needs to be decent, but I think many keep themselves from progressing because they have to have this perfect form, and many others progress weight, but the lift they are doing isn’t even close to what it’s supposed to be. Ex…

They do it just to fuck with you man!

Well, as long as the arm is curled and the person progresses year after year, the biceps is stimulated. Its not like doing it in a correct way would give you noticeably more gains.

People seem to argue about this kind of stuff all the time but I think it’s just getting caught up in the minutiae for most. Maybe he’s sacrificing a little range of motion and we all know that range of motion can be a key driver, but that extra few percent in the grand scheme of things is chasing p…

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atlas13 November 17, 2022, 9:55pm 16

Haters will say it’s photoshopped

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