Tennis ball biceps

Nicko · Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 11:38 pm Post subject:

I can definatly see where you are comming from there are a few things you gotta realize though, one is that YOU ARE 16 and you are not even 18 or 20. a man doesn't even really start to fill in untill they are about 18 and finish when they are 20ish, just look at the high school kids and compare the grade 9s to the 12s, massive difference. In the years to come your muscles will naturally fill in more, don't try and rush them and don't supplement yourself to death if that is what you are doing, you can end up doing things like stunting your growth and pull joints and injur yourself since your bones have not hardened and your joints and socekts are not yet developed.

from your age and from your muscle development I may be wrong but I would assume you really do not know all that much about training, or training properly. now I could be wrong and you do know what your are doing. and I have seen some arms like that on ectomorphs and your arm just may be naturally like that.

now here is the advice I can give you. Know that the bicep has 3 different heads which can be exercise. basically you exercise each head just by the way you hold the weight, holding the weight palm down will exericse one head, holding the weight palm up will exercise another, and holding the weight sideways (like in a hammercurl) will exercise the last head. I would think the reason for your bicep turning out like that is because you may only exercise one head, (the one where your palm is facing up) and/or do not lift using full range of motion. so in short I would suggest focusing on full range of motion if you are not already, and changing some of your arm exercises, try throwing in a reverse barbell curl, a hammer curl, dumbell/cable cross overs, or some others that hit the muscle a different way

just look at your bicep and move your wrist around you will see what I mean, when the palm faces up the muscle flexs, when you turn it 90 degrees the muscle is partially extended and when the palm is facing down it is fully extended, each way exercises it differently

http://www.shapefit.com/biceps-exercises-drag-curls.html

happy lifting

markrocooper · Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 4:30 am Post subject:

no im not on steriods. and i dnt want to be. cause apparently they skrew with your mind. and also your gentals
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Vincent Valentine · Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 9:46 am Post subject:

You're way to young to be on steroids anyway.

testokitty · Girly Man Joined: 18 Apr 2007 Posts: 9 147 Pumps S. Bucks

This question is easily answered:

It's about genetics. Some people have shorter muscles, some people longer. And when your bicep muscles are the shorter type, when they develop they tend to leave a gap between the elbow and the muscle (when flexing that bicep). Now, when you have longer biceps muscles, your arms look more "full" when they develop, so to speak. When you have shorter type of bicep muscles, they tend to grow thicker, but they leave that gap. Of course it's a matter of taste which type you prefer. I personally have short muscles, and i've been training 9 years and always had that gap. But then again, i kinda like the so called "tennis ball look" that the shorter muscle type gives Smile

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Nicko · Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 12:33 pm Post subject:

oops sorry it is the tricep which has 3 heads. your right the bicep only has two

hmm... so you claim that it is all in the width of your grip? I would say that the way you grip the weight, either regular, hammer or inverted, would exercise the muscles differently. just the same as the width of the grip (I don't use barbells at all)

hey, mark, if you don't know body types you should really look up ectomorph, messomoprh, and endomorph. it will give you a good idea of what you got to work with and how you can train and I hate using this word but "limitations" (to an extent) you have on your body

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Nicko · Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 3:28 pm Post subject:

supinate your long and short bicep head? supinate is rotating so your palm faces up do you mean extension?

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Nicko · Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 5:15 pm Post subject:

I didn't notice, if you know the correct terminology for things like bicep and such and you know anitomical movements I would say you know english pretty well.

if you grip the weight with your hand pronated (palms down) forces your muscle to extend more, which may or may not help fill in the gap. that is atleast how I would try exercising if I had a big gap and wanted to get rid of it, but yes Genetics do play their role