Preacher Curls and Charlie Horses
Nov. 12th, 2004 07:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Does anyone in the LJ BS Fitness Group know if using the preacher bench while doing curls has a better benefit than doing preacher curls standing and not using the bench?
Also, does anyone know anything about charlie horses?
Thanks,
Biff
Also, does anyone know anything about charlie horses?
Thanks,
Biff
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Date: 2004-11-12 03:18 pm (UTC)also, helps keep you from cheating by using body momentum.
Without a bench, if you are using dumbells (one for each hand) you get more overall strength in the muscles that are used to stabilize the motion. Especially if you try and lift both hands at the same time.
For my curls, I try and do a rotation movement as I come up, as the biceps control a good portion of the rotation of the lower arm.
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Date: 2004-11-13 06:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-11-13 02:44 pm (UTC)As for my lifting, which I just got back into doing, it was so that I can GAIN weight.
I was about 190 at Ft Drum in Dec 03.
By may 04 I was 160.
I am hovering around 165-167. I want 175 again.
But I am (was before I stopped lifting after my break up) benching more than my body weight!