Comparision of bicep vs. hamstring training...

[Baoh]

I see your point, you are right, but in any pulling movement (especially the dl) your bicep is resisting a tensile overload exactly like the force your hamstring resists in the eccentric phase of the rdl

I am trying to approximate it to the SLDL action. If we wanted that kind of stretch on the brachial biceps, we'd need to have the arms behind the torso during the stretch.

 

[dude]

I see many people forgetting that there are two other muscles that are hamstring muscles besides the biceps femoris. You have the semimembranosis and semitendinosis muscles. These will definitely contract to extend the trunk when the thigh and leg are flexed. Also, when you are slowly lowering the weight it is you hamstring muscles that are working eccentrically to do that. I don't think you can quite compare the hamstrings to the biceps because the hamstring muscles also laterally and meially rotate the thigh while the biceps mostly flex and supinate the forearm.

 

[collegiateLifter]

A muscle has to contract in order to do work. bottom line.

 

[OMEGA]

Ok.... now with hamstrings we really have two types of exercises (there are a couple of others that hit the hamstrings indirectly) ... one being curling movements - whether standing, seated, laying, etc.. - and the stiff legged dead lift movement which is basically a heavy stretching movement. Think about it... your hamstrings do not contract during the SLDL.

So why do we not have a stiff legged dead lift variation for bicep training? All bicep training relys upon are curling movements... where is the heavy stretched movement for biceps? I mean, there is no denying you get growth for hams from SLDL.

Just a thought....

"So why do we not have a stiff legged dead lift variation for bicep training? "

we do its called Deadlifts

 

[djeclipse]

"So why do we not have a stiff legged dead lift variation for bicep training? "

we do its called Deadlifts

lol GOLD! K to you.

 

[GUARDIAN]

"So why do we not have a stiff legged dead lift variation for bicep training? "

we do its called Deadlifts

Shrugs & Incline Curls