ez curl vs straigh bar for biceps

[babyfaced monster]

i usually use the straight bar, and HUGE diff between these two???

 

[michaelcoutts]

i prefer the straight bar

 

[louden_swain]

Absolutely no difference. . . .the ez bar is designed to help eliminate stress off of the wrist. Other than that a curl movement is a curl movement.

 

[Egomaniac247]

The weird thing is that a ez curl bar fucks with my wrists for some reason...I just don't feel right holding it with heavy weight. I'll take the straight bar anyday.

 

[Fatty4You]

I find the eZbar much more comfortable on my wrist. However, i do strait bar and remove stress by holding the bar with my grip way out wide. I feel that this also changes the angle that i am doing the curl in a slightly different way, so i feel that curling with eZbar and the strait bar are variations on the same exercise.

Also, on the Ezbar i can have a narrow grip sometimes for more variation.

-Fatty

 

[needsize]

From what I understand, the EZ curl bar on the wide grip has the wrist supinated to a degree, which takes the stress off the bicep muscle, similar to what a hammer curl does

 

[Madd Hatter]

The weird thing is that a ez curl bar fucks with my wrists for some reason...I just don't feel right holding it with heavy weight. I'll take the straight bar anyday.

Same here. Weird indeed. So I do seated preacher's with a 30lb straight bar, alternate with standing hammer curls.

 

[WarriorPL]

Straight all the way. I've hurt my wrist with the ezbar.

 

[jerkbox]

straight bar hurst my wrists....here's a question: ez bar close or wide grip?

 

[Fatty4You]

straight bar hurst my wrists....here's a question: ez bar close or wide grip?

From what i have been told, close grip emphasizes the more lateral part of the bicep, and wide grip emphasizes the more medial part of the bicep. How true this is? I don't know.

-Fatty

 

[Tarheel]

I like the close grip on the EZ.

 

[gymtime]

The different hand positions in the ez bar and straight bar will make little difference, if any. I use whichever bar is more readily available.

As for close/wide grip, I've always found the wider/shoulder-width grip to be more effective than close grip.

 

[Lord_Suston]

I prefer straight bar at shoulder width, I feel any naroower makes it easy to help with you delts rotating your shoulders back to lift the weight. Ez curl never felt right for me so I avoid it

 

[gymtime]

I prefer straight bar at shoulder width, I feel any naroower makes it easy to help with you delts rotating your shoulders back to lift the weight. ....

I agree. I always "feel it" more in my shoulders when I use close grip. It's easy enough to cheat on a regular wide grip, no point in making it easier by incorporating the delts.