You mean you have short biceps? Yeah same. Honestly, no plans, just doing them ahah. Once I didn’t do them for a year. Just like my chest, it is a bodypart that is not much emphasized when training for athleticism. But I’ve been doing them for year and a half. Unfortunately, had a few tendonitis because of work, so it has been mostly forearms work. Now I’ll just add slabs of meat there
Exactly. I remember reading somewhere that a clue to gauge potential arm size was to bend the arm to 90 degrees and flex and with your other hand place your fingers in between the flexed muscle and the forearm and the heuristic was if one finger fits big cannons were possible. If two fit the best bet was to go for lean to give the illusion of size. I can fit four fingers.
Same for me. Or at least three. Doesn’t matter, I’ll still train them, it has other benefits like shoulder and elbow stability and health (also strength)
You can easily fit 2 fingers there. So I’m not keen to believe dogmatic sayings. Short biceps have been more often than not a good thing in bodybuilding
I’m not using it as an excuse to not train it directly but I don’t emphasise it as much as I might otherwise would have 
I try and put my effort into my triceps instead
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For whatever reason i always had more success in bringing up my biceps than my triceps! Whereas I’ve been doing more tricep work in my life I’m sure, and I feel them right!
Since we have the same build according to CT we need less pulling work.
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Yeah and I’m doing his conjugate stuff which is all pulling ahahah I know, better focus on our weaknesses 
I know what I’ll do: less back, more single-leg stuff, chest, arms.
Chest is a weakness for you? My pecs are really dominant but that’s probably because I’ve been benching without managing to use my tris for two years…
I don’t want to clutter CTs sub-forum with this but man, I can imagine this being the instinctual reaction an author would have to all the dumb shit we come and ask them sometimes,
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Tuesday, 2020-09-08
Committed Week 2, Day 8 committed2020
Climbing 2h10m
Long session today, three person rotation and after I was done another friend wanted a belay and he fought a long while with the route he was on (twenty minutes or so easy) and so I something shy of three hours in the hall.
Anyway, as far as my own performance is concerned (all lead, zero falls)
- 5c
- 6b+
- 6b
- 7a
- 6b+
Then the plan was to do alternating chin-ups/pull-ups and do 50 in as short a time frame as possible but I forgot to start the timer so instead I did sets with 20 second rests and did
15
10
5s in perpetuity until I reached 50.
The 5c was a nice and breezy warm-up.
The first 6b+ is a 6b+ on top-rope and it was brutally hard on lead. Easily a 7a+. For sure a climbing PR, hardest climb I ever did by a significant margin. To make an analogy, imagine a 10-15 kilo PR on an overhead press for how far removed this performance was from what I ordinarily train at. Sweaty when I came down, decent forearm pump that took a while to subside. It was really technical, you had to keep your hips just perfect to stay on the grips for as long as was required to clip. Much love.
Then an easy 6b
A repeat performance on the 7a. An old project of mine that I have down to a science at this point
Finished with a marginally challenging 6b+, that I want to repeat as I used a bit too much strength and too little technique to be happy with it. I did utter out aloud at 3/4 of the way to the top “are you fucking kidding me?” when I thought I was going to fall but I just pushed through it. Had to breathe quite heavily on a section prior to that. Lifting really helps here. I know how to breathe my way through an effort.
Post-workout meal: 2xPancakes with bananas & cottage cheese mixed with O’boy (sugar and cocoa basically). One pancake with pomegranate and raspberry marmelade and one pancake with maple syrup. Yum
Slightly cooled down back-picture @aldebaran:
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This looks tasty as fuck damn! And I’ve been only eatin garbage for months ughhh
Back still looks yummy like the pancakes ahahah
Why are you eating garbage fam?
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He says that all the time, then turns up looking like a fucking underwear model.
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Oh, he meant he’s been eating delicious shit and even then the pancakes looked good? If so, I appreciate the compliment
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No no I’m eating out all the time. Today double burgers and fries.
I guess because I’m going out and partying all the time…
But for real starting thursday I’m going clean
Sounds expensive
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Yeah it is… 15€ for a burger ughhh
And the alcohol as well. So I’m not gonna have a choice but to restraint myself anyway because money gonna be tight
I wish our resident financially responsible @danteism with his aptly named log would post more. Maybe he could inspire you in gaining whilst frugal.
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I know how I’m just going out all the time ahah I’m bored
Drinking pink gin and lemonade right now. Girly but delicious