Biceps thingy
- Thread starter Biggie
- Start date
it looks good, only criticism i have for it is that you dont train in a full range of motion. thus i believe that you will only be able to use all that strength in the anlge you trained in. I'd do it though, but i wont stop doing curls. i'd do a combo of the two.
Hoss
1
I've been using this method for a while, the pull up static and just bb curl static, when I started I noticed great gains after about a month or two.. I use this is combination with normal exercises (pull downs, curls, etc).. This is mostly done for size, not so much strength.. But with static you only notice a strength increase within 20 degrees up and down of the point you contract at, so a total of 40, which isn't bad.. But you're also weakening your GTO so you will notice strength increases in the full range of motion from that..
they had some great videos on that site. it just made me want to run out and hit the biceps all day long, unfortunately though, i just worked out the ol' ceptors. gotta wait a few day.s
Hoss
1
GTO = Golgi Tendon Organ... It's in your tendons; when you GTO senses that your muscle is pulling too hard on the bone(in fear of actually ripping the muscle off of the bone), your brain sends inhibitory action potentials to your muscle causing it to contract less..
That's about as in depth as I can go without typing 2 pages.. lol
That's about as in depth as I can go without typing 2 pages.. lol
Hoss
1
Not really, by doing static, or isometiric, exercises until failure (the pull up explained in the begining) you weaken(desensitize) the GTO.. By doing this, when you lift heavy the GTO isn't as sensitive, therefore it isn't telling your muscle to contract less. If your GTO gets desensitized too much, you run the risk of literally ripping your muscle off your bone, but this would take years of specific training..
What if you did pull ups like that, only go down very slow?
i agree with mreik. 
does this exercise lower ALL the GTO in your body? or just the GTO in your biceps?
if it only works in biceps, im guessin you could take any exercise and do negatives... for example, bench press and do negatives with a spotter?
if it only works in biceps, im guessin you could take any exercise and do negatives... for example, bench press and do negatives with a spotter?
Good thoughts, Mreik. But something that I'm thinking is that doing static strength training actually only strengthens within a 15 degree range of motion, so you'd have to actually perform the static strength in all the ROMs in order to really reap the benefits of full ROM. However, something like power curls with a slower eccentric would help.