3 Reasons Why You Aren’t gaining Biceps Fast
‘Why my Biceps aren’t growing?’ Is the most common question asked
by many gym fanatics. The answer lies in the question itself if you
ponder. Your nutrition is good, you are gaining good muscle growth
everywhere except Biceps.
Killer biceps are what men strives for but few are lucky to got them.
While the rest struggles all their life. Especially, if you have thin
arms, building biceps haven’t been a piece of cake for you.
Why worry? Here we will be sharing 3 reason which will help you
know the reason behind your underdeveloped biceps.
1-Lifting too much weight.
Overtraining is the foremost reason behind the slow growth of biceps
muscle. Our muscles lift to a certain limit but exceeding that limit and
lifting a lot of weight will cost us not only by giving injuries but also
in the form of undeveloped biceps. Instead of lifting heavy weights try
perfecting your posture for maximum muscle isolation and growth.
Direct arm workout shouldn’t be done with heavy weights. Muscle growth is
achieved with cellular swelling. The best way to get this cellular
swelling is by lifting lighter weights along with higher repetition
sets.
Try using a weight that will let you achieve 10 or 12 repetitions. While
working out with lighter weight squeeze your muscles as hard as you can on
each rep. Ensure that you feel burn in your muscles and not in
joints.
Not using battling ropes.
Another reason behind your failure is that you aren’t utilizing
battling ropes in your workouts. Many gyms now a days have sets of battle
ropes. These ropes are one of the best bicep building tools one could ever
asked for.
Battling rope exercises can be done in 2 ways;
- Inverted rows. Loop the rope over the top of a chin up bar, then grasp the rope ends in each hand. Now lay your body back towards the floor. Perform the rows by using your body weight until you can’t pull your arms back.
- Hand over hand rows. Attach one end of the rope to a sledge and do hand over hand rows for the total ropes’ length. You can use any weight in this workout that will allow you to take 50 seconds to complete each set.
This exercise will provide you multiple benefits. Not only it will
help you gain bigger biceps but will also widen your back, thicken
forearms and strengthen oblique muscles
- Not maintaining a mind-muscle connection. You might not be feeling and focusing on the biceps working during workout. Establishing a mind and muscle connection is very important during any workout and it makes a huge difference in muscle growth. Instead of curling the weight up you need to focus and feel the biceps working. But to do this you have to choose light weights.
Just remember, while lifting weight think about squeezing the bar towards
your body rather just thinking about lifting weight. It will enhance the
bicep contraction during each repetition.
