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Watching people struggle valiantly to squeeze out one or two last reps by calling into play every available muscle in their body to help move the weight adds nothing to muscle size or shape, but the practice does open the door to injury.
When your biceps (or any other targeted muscle) fail, it’s because they’re done. They’ve done all they can do. Adding momentum, bouncing up and down, engaging shoulder muscles, back muscles and more, bending and twisting and contorting the body in a desperate effort to get one or two more reps —these things do not help build and shape the biceps.
"Only working the biceps in ISOLATION builds and shapes the biceps."
This being so common tells me how few people follow—or even understand the dictum of mind-muscle connection, of “putting your mind in the muscle.”
If you can't feel the muscle working, it's because the muscle isn't working. If after a set of biceps curls you don't feel the biceps engorged with blood and the unpleasant feeling that comes with lactic acid buildup in the biceps due to correctly performing the exercise, it's because you're doing it all wrong.
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