How effective do you think hammer curl is for biceps?

[Anonymous]

Barbell curl causes pain on my forearms , so i've decides to hammer curl instead of barbell curl, but i don't know it'll be effective as barbellcurl is.

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[Jan1ssary_]

First of all, I can say you are doing something wrong with barbell curl.

1. You don't obey 90 C angle.
2. You are doing it too fast or too much slow.
3. You propably tighten your hands too much when holding from the bar.

First of all you MUST obey 90 C angle otherwise it will effect your forearms. All you need to do is just don't get your arms too much down, don't stretch your arms just keep it at 90 then lift it again.

Try to do it in the moderate speed, if you do it too fast it won't effect your muscles which is not coo' .. u can do it slow but remember not too much slow. Do it like 12 Reps 3 sets thats will be cool.

Don't hold the bar so tight.. if you do then it will effect to your forearms and u will be non-bicep guy.

Hammercurl is effective I also do that, you must obey 90 C angle with it too. When you are getting your arms down just do it slowly.

[BeerFarts]

It's pretty effective. After all, it's not called the neutral grips biceps curl for a reason. It does target your biceps... just not as well as barbell curls.

Another effective bicep exercise? Close grip pull-ups.

[redeyemindtricks]

Lol yeah... Honestly, there isn't terribly much justification for most guys to even DO biceps-specific work. If you do enough pulling exercises, yr biceps will develop accordingly.

Honestly, the only guys who really NEED to do these kinds of "finisher" exercises are guys who are on TRT (testosterone replacement) and/or anabolic steroids -- because those are the ONLY guys who **might** accidentally develop their musculature asymmetrically, if they're not paying attention to that.
"Natural" guys won't develop arms -- or anything else -- that are out of balance, because the body just doesn't work that way. (As an extreme example of this... If one side of yr body is injured in an accident, then, even working out THE OTHER SIDE of the body is enough to maintain like 95% of the symmetry and muscle mass while that side is healing. THAT is how much the body "wants" to balance itself, unless it's being flooded with external hormones.)

[redeyemindtricks]

Uh, curling shouldn't cause PAIN... anywhere. Especially not in yr forearms.

It's *somewhat* normal for barbell curls to cause pain in the outside of the elbows (tendinitis/ "tennis elbow"), in individuals with residual joint issues or old over-use injuries.
But... FOREARM pain from biceps curls is not normal at all.

The response to this sort of pain is to figure out what the problem is, and FIX it.
Not "ignore the problem, pretend it doesn't exist, and just move on to another movement". You know what happens when you do THAT, right? ... After a while, EVERY movement will cause pain.

[Welladjustedeyes]

A hammer curl focuses on forearms and the head of the bicep. While it will train biceps you won't see the same results. Try cable curls, preacher curls or concentration curls if you have access to those things

[nickstaa]

They're ok, but you would probably want to do more if you're targeting biceps.

[Mario21]

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