Weights for curls

[LiftingDukkha]

Holy god there are some very strong curlers here. I suck & have always sucked, but a few years ago I got into them for awhile. I use the EZ-bar but stand against a wall, starting with the bar against my legs focusing exclusively on starting the rep without any swing; also, strictly keeping the elbows at my side/as much in the original starting position as possible. The best I've done on this is 149 for 1 rep. My goal was to break 155 which was the record mark in my high school many moons ago performed by this beast who shattered 315 on the bench press when he was in 9th grade/14 years old. By the time he graduated high school he was pretty gigantic so I figured if, even as an adult, I could approach his curl mark, given that I suck at curls, I'd be somewhat happy.

But I highly doubt I'll ever approach 200 let alone more on a strict curl. Jesus.

 

[coldblue1955]

150lbs. i can curl.

 

[Extra_Strong]

Damn, I thought I was the only other one. Also, I do not train eyebrows or temples.

silly fucker ha ha...

 

[mekannik]

silly fucker ha ha...

Hey! I am serious about bulking and do not want to overtrain.

That being said - I rarely train my cheeks either.

 

[Micker]

Man this 5x5 I am doing is really upping my curls also. I could do like 135 or a bit m0re before I started for a rep. I just did 135 for 5 good reps yesterday!! I feel like I am on the juice, but I never touched the stuff. I am amazed as I only do 2 sets of curls total for my arms during the week. I think I was overtraining my arms before. I used to do 12+ sets for biceps, way too much now that I look back.

 

[tay1506]

I can curl maybe 130 but thats almost my body weight so i dont feel to bad

 

[JLowe]

ive gotten 135 with decent form, but my curls seem to change daily. some days im prolly as week as 125 and others perhaps as strong as 140. 140 i have gotten though on ez-bar. my form isnt that strict in any of the curls, but im not that concerned because i dont plan on competing anyway. anything i do would be passable though

 

[siamesedream]

I never have tested my 1RM on curls, but one thing I pride myself on is that I do curls more properly than anyone I've ever seen. I always have someone monitor me while I do curls also and tell them to make sure I am using no momentum, to make sure the sides of my arms never leave the sides of my torso, and to make sure I keep my back perfectly straight, and to make sure I drop the bar all the way down until the barbell touches my legs preventing my arms from straightening out any further before I bring the bar back up.

I was at the gym a while back and one guy wanted to try doing curls the way I do them (that is - the proper way), so he had me show him how to do them right and he couldn't curl even ONCE half of the weight that he normally "curls" for EIGHT.

 

[NorgePrecision]

I trained my biceps for the first time in a long time the other day. It was after a big back workout. I think I did 10 sets involving db curl, reverse bb curl, bb curl, and hammer curls. My arms were very sore for the next two days.

Is it bad to lift biceps more than once a week? I know with smaller muscles like calves and abs you can work them more than once a week, but I remember hearing something about overtraining biceps with more than once.

 

[sidney61199]

Your either all beasts or are hitting the juice. Some of the weight people are describing is what you'd see in flex or muscle mag with the pro body builders doing them.