I've only once seen a person doing concentration curls irl. This was in 2011. The guy doing those was a strongman competitor, easily one of the biggest and strongest people in town (during the same workout he casually benched 315 for reps like it was nothing).
Biceps are very important muscles for many strongman events and having underdeveloped biceps is very dangerous on events like the atlas stone (high risk of tearing your biceps if they're too weak to handle the load)
Pretty much every variation of any exercise has a specific name, but a thing I've noticed is that you don't actually need to know the name of an exercise to perform it.
I started doing these before I do preacher curls. It really hits hard but I hate doing them. I feel like a boomer tuff guy or something when I do these and try get them over with quickly before people make fun of me
No they aren't. OP is a zoomer queer who only does cable curls. People hate on these because they can't cheat like every other curl so you can't do as much weight.
They're easy to cheat on if you position your elbow on mid thigh and have an upright torso like OP picrel. The top half of that rep is mechanically advantaged.
Pretty sure all boomers just threw hay bales around all day long on the family farm that they regretted selling 40 years ago when they could have waited for 500x price increase.
>russian twists (especially with a broomstick on your shoulders) >preacher curls >dumbell flyes >skullcrushers with a swiss bar >pullovers >any squat done on the balls of your feet or referred to as a "knee bend"
Dumbbell flies physically do nothing for the pecs. You're literally just pretending to squeeze air together while holding dumbells in your hands, supported by your shoulder and arms not your chest. You have to use a cable machine so that the resistance is actually fighting you when you squeeze together, imitating with dumbbells is doing literally nothing. Then people swear up and down how great it is even though they're also doing: >incline presses >flat presses >cable crossovers >pushups >yadda yadda
Then try to say it was the dumbbell fly that worked.
Was always a fan of lying on the ground gripping your gym bro's ankles. Dragon flag up and he shoves your feet forward or to the side and keep going until you fail. Bonus points if you have a second buddy smack the shit out your stomach on each downstroke with a thai pad or foam roller.
>skullcrushers with a swiss bar >pullovers
These are actually based though
Dumbbell flies physically do nothing for the pecs. You're literally just pretending to squeeze air together while holding dumbells in your hands, supported by your shoulder and arms not your chest. You have to use a cable machine so that the resistance is actually fighting you when you squeeze together, imitating with dumbbells is doing literally nothing. Then people swear up and down how great it is even though they're also doing: >incline presses >flat presses >cable crossovers >pushups >yadda yadda
Then try to say it was the dumbbell fly that worked.
Dumbass, db flies are for the stretch, which is more important for hypertrophy than the squeeze anyway.
I did these in HS and college. I graduated HS in 2008. I'm going to do these tomorrow in public to fuck with zoomers. Thanks for trip down memory lane.
Bench press
I've only once seen a person doing concentration curls irl. This was in 2011. The guy doing those was a strongman competitor, easily one of the biggest and strongest people in town (during the same workout he casually benched 315 for reps like it was nothing).
>Strongman competitor
>Doing concentration curls
lmao wtf why?
Biceps are very important muscles for many strongman events and having underdeveloped biceps is very dangerous on events like the atlas stone (high risk of tearing your biceps if they're too weak to handle the load)
Tbf briceps are a very functional muscle for just moving shit around
>why would the largest single muscle in your arm be important if you want to move heavy shit
that would be the tricep
I do them, but I'm 34, so it's perfectly fine.
I didn't know these had a name and thought they were the same as any other curl just sitting down
Pretty much every variation of any exercise has a specific name, but a thing I've noticed is that you don't actually need to know the name of an exercise to perform it.
weightlifting is like the opposite of shitty shounen battle anime because the names LITERALLY do not matter
Squats
>doing concentration curls
>daydream about what to have for dinner tonight
>consentration curls
>have ADHD
>doing concentration curls
>concentrated
>REALLY FUCKING CONCENTRATED
>transcend to meditation curls
>achieve enlightenment AND get a biceps pump
buddha looking kind of swole
>doing concentration curls
>Allies liberate the gym
>mfw
Underrated
I started doing these before I do preacher curls. It really hits hard but I hate doing them. I feel like a boomer tuff guy or something when I do these and try get them over with quickly before people make fun of me
are these really boomer? I used to do these before swapping them out for incline seated curls
>quintessential boomer workouts
eating in the changing room
No they aren't. OP is a zoomer queer who only does cable curls. People hate on these because they can't cheat like every other curl so you can't do as much weight.
They're easy to cheat on if you position your elbow on mid thigh and have an upright torso like OP picrel. The top half of that rep is mechanically advantaged.
boomer ≠bad
Pretty sure all boomers just threw hay bales around all day long on the family farm that they regretted selling 40 years ago when they could have waited for 500x price increase.
My dad does these. Wrist curls are also pretty boomercore
>Squats
>Deadlifts
More zoomers do squats and deadlifts now than ever. These were rare lifts in public gyms 10 years ago
Concentration curls are great for bicep aesthetics, it’s a necessary accessory imo
They seem pretty convenient to me if you workout at the gym
workout at home*
This has been an occurence way too often lately, wtf is going on
stop the weed
it's all from meditation I'm high as fuck on god
workout is a noun, you mean work out.
bro I'm barely functioning rn
I like to sit down when doing my one-handed supinated curls to make sure my form is just right. Does that count as concentration curls?
Tour all the cable machines maxing out the weight doing quarter reps
>russian twists (especially with a broomstick on your shoulders)
>preacher curls
>dumbell flyes
>skullcrushers with a swiss bar
>pullovers
>any squat done on the balls of your feet or referred to as a "knee bend"
how the fuck do you do russian twists with a broomstick on your shoulders when youre supposed to hold the weight in your hands?
>preacher curls
>dumbbell flys
what's bad about these?
Mostly outdated/alternative exercises
Not sure what’s the point of preachers when weighted chin-ups or ez bar curls hit bicep better
Dumbbell flies physically do nothing for the pecs. You're literally just pretending to squeeze air together while holding dumbells in your hands, supported by your shoulder and arms not your chest. You have to use a cable machine so that the resistance is actually fighting you when you squeeze together, imitating with dumbbells is doing literally nothing. Then people swear up and down how great it is even though they're also doing:
>incline presses
>flat presses
>cable crossovers
>pushups
>yadda yadda
Then try to say it was the dumbbell fly that worked.
this exercise nukes your abs though. boomer wisdom.
Was always a fan of lying on the ground gripping your gym bro's ankles. Dragon flag up and he shoves your feet forward or to the side and keep going until you fail. Bonus points if you have a second buddy smack the shit out your stomach on each downstroke with a thai pad or foam roller.
>skullcrushers with a swiss bar
>pullovers
These are actually based though
Dumbass, db flies are for the stretch, which is more important for hypertrophy than the squeeze anyway.
retard
haha this is so true. wtf are they doing.
>hmm, this exercise allows me to sit down just like I do at home
Tricep pushdowns with 1 billion dropsets all taken to a rpe2.
i always do skull crushers is this better?
i think using a barbell works better on the muscle
compound then crushers then pulldowns to failure
I did these in HS and college. I graduated HS in 2008. I'm going to do these tomorrow in public to fuck with zoomers. Thanks for trip down memory lane.
i just been doing barbell curl at the end of every workout , and its been helping i think
Just try out the movement. I prefer old school movements since they tend to work.
“I used to be able to squat 600lbs when I was your age” x failure
letting the towel “accidentally” fall off in the sauna when a twink walks in
bench dips