BICEP AND SHOULDER HEALTH
5 Key Things You need to know
1. Your biceps muscles all attach inside of the shoulder joint
When you train your biceps, the scapula must stabilize.
If your biceps are tight, shoulder function is affected from the shoulder being pulled forward...
5 Key Things You need to know
1. Your biceps muscles all attach inside of the shoulder joint
When you train your biceps, the scapula must stabilize.
If your biceps are tight, shoulder function is affected from the shoulder being pulled forward...
2. Your Biceps help to raise your arm forward
Anytime you do a front delt raise, you are also working your biceps a little bit
If your upper back is weak (extremely common), doing this exercise contributes to that Front-of-Shoulder-Tightness
Anytime you do a front delt raise, you are also working your biceps a little bit
If your upper back is weak (extremely common), doing this exercise contributes to that Front-of-Shoulder-Tightness
3. Preacher curls make this worse
This exercise as its conventionally done is quite lousy
The line of force is straight down and not in line the biceps,
And it puts the biceps tendon under massive stress
Additionally, it forces the shoulders into a protracted position
This exercise as its conventionally done is quite lousy
The line of force is straight down and not in line the biceps,
And it puts the biceps tendon under massive stress
Additionally, it forces the shoulders into a protracted position
4. If you have "tight" shoulders, You probably have tight biceps and tight anterior delts
You need to get this area massaged and stretched
This can be manually, a massage gun works fantastic for this
You need to get this area massaged and stretched
This can be manually, a massage gun works fantastic for this
5. Posture MATTERS during bicep exercises
Biceps are easy to train. You are only doing 2 main exercise
bicep curls
hammer curls
maybe pronated curls
That said, if you already have kyphotic, rounded shoulder posture, you need to be mindful when you are doing your exercises
Biceps are easy to train. You are only doing 2 main exercise
bicep curls
hammer curls
maybe pronated curls
That said, if you already have kyphotic, rounded shoulder posture, you need to be mindful when you are doing your exercises
If you are slouched over on all your exercises, and especially if you get into cheating and using momentum, you end up in the hunched gremlin position
And you are making your posture and shoulder issues worse
Do not do this
And you are making your posture and shoulder issues worse
Do not do this
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