Biceps question.. [Archive]

ronasor

31-07-2007, 05:58

is there a way to focus the exercise of the powerball on the biceps muscles? because it mainly work on the forearm and ill like to know about it...

WORMSS

31-07-2007, 06:26

Buy LOADS and LOADS of them, and life them lots and lots of times?

ronasor

31-07-2007, 06:29

Buy LOADS and LOADS of them, and life them lots and lots of times?
buy loads of what?...
but i want to focus the training on the biceps because eventually the biceps and the forearms will become uneven...
(btw... youtube is dead?)

WORMSS

31-07-2007, 06:33

was referring to buy loads of powerballs [to get lots and lots of weight] and then use them as weights... ... i guess my humor is lost of a few people :(

ronasor

31-07-2007, 06:37

well comparing my english humor to hebrew... i can say its dead :).
and i can say 47$ is quite "expensive" in my country... u know... stock market and all...
if the dollar wasnt so high i probably had about 20 pb's right now :D

WORMSS

31-07-2007, 06:46

Dollar High? ow dear.. the Dollar is Dropping like Wild fire compared to the Pound Sterling... well it was the last time i looked.. but.. well, I'm lazy. :)

lhnova

31-07-2007, 11:49

I don't think you need to worry about unevenly training your arm, the powerball works the whole arm right up to the shoulder. Of course there are certain areas such as the forearm which are worked harder but powerballing uses your whole arm all the time. However if you want to put more strain on the bicep during a run hold the ball up at about head height in front of you and turn your hand so that your palm is facing you. That should give your bicep more of a workout.

Other than that, use weights if you want to really train individual muscles for size, power etc.

Linus

Adrena1in

31-07-2007, 13:42

...hold the ball up at about head height in front of you and turn your hand so that your palm is facing you. That should give your bicep more of a workout.

Yes, I was going to say that. When you Powerball like this you'll see your bicep twitching as it's worked. However, you can also hold your arm in the bicep curl position, but then twist your wrist so that your palm is facing sideways or even away from you, and this will also work the bicep.

However, if you REALLY want to work your biceps then curling heavy weights would probably be more beneficial.

(And I understood your joke, WORMSS! ;) )

lhnova

31-07-2007, 14:15

(And I understood your joke, WORMSS! ;) )

yup me too :D

but I think it would have been much more obvious if you had spelt LIFT correctly ;)

Linus

WORMSS

31-07-2007, 14:18

lhnova

31-07-2007, 14:26

arrr, i see it now.. i was thinking... "NO, i just installed Firefox 2, it has auto Spell checker", but I just noticed i wrote life, so of course it is spelt correctly, just the wrong word all together...

yeah lol, unfotunately Firefox's spell checker doesn't have a sense of humor ;)

Linus

Physioblue

31-07-2007, 19:54

Adrena1in is absolutely right. Because the biceps are made of two muscle bellies you should train them both to get the best result.
That means bending your elbow to 90 degrees and powerballing with your palm upwards and also with your palm downwards.
(BTW Tim, doing it with your palm sideways works a muscle called Brachioradialis - the one that pops up near your bicep but runs along your forearm. :p)

ronasor

01-08-2007, 07:25

Dollar High? ow dear.. the Dollar is Dropping like Wild fire compared to the Pound Sterling... well it was the last time i looked.. but.. well, I'm lazy. :)
well it does drops like crazy fire against the pund sterlin... but it rising like hot air baloon against the Shekel...
each dollar now worth ~4.3 shekel... so imagine the pain..

tutton

17-08-2007, 20:40

Powerball supply videos on how to target certain areas on your top using the powerballs at http://www.powerballs.com/exercise_videos/