Break it up into multiple cycles over time. As an example, 4 exercises for 12 weeks and then repeat with 4 new ones. Over time, your biceps will be exposed to multiple movement types without workouts taking forever and become stale.
@@CornFed_3 with all respect to Jay Cutler, it doesn't make any sense to focus on that much movements. You need 2 to 3 excercises and you don't need to change them at all until the time that you feel bored with them and lose motivation because of that boredom. Focusing on as little excercises as possible helps you to build up the technique, to master, to perfect, and progressively overload you muscle. When you switch to often, you just need to learnthenew technique at first, and only after that you'll be able to properly load your muscle
@@drunklorry3406, right, basically what I was getting at. For me, 12 weeks is a good time period to switch things up. Biceps are easy since they can be worked out more often as one progresses in weight lifting. To the point that 2-4 exercises split up between 2-3 days per week is plenty. I get bored over time so the 12 week thing is my preference, but over the course of a year, I’ll easily expose my biceps to 12-16 different movements. I find it beneficial to gain the most amount of size. I’m also 6’4” so my arms take extra work over others.
I think Jay meant 12-16 total sets. That would fall in line with what we know is an effective weekly volume. Lee Priest was high on volume and recommended 20.
@@arnar9478 agreed the man won multiple Mr Olympia. He didn't stutter. 12-16 different exercises 3-4 sets each. I hate when people try to tweak the formula like they've ever had more muscles than Jay 🤭. He said what he said!😤 So let's all strive to reach where he once was.
@@erenmeatrider Wrong😭🤣. Quit trying to shortchange the workout. The man said what he said! 12-16 different movements 3-4 sets each. U guys are cheating the workout already 😭 toughen up and accept the challenge!
12-16 sets🙁😧😨 Jay's right. I really will have the best biceps out here. I won't be able to feel my arms either but ok. Love it Jay. Push us to the impossibilities
Found a huge pump recently by single arm DB hammer curls superset with straight bar or cambered bar, inside grip curls to failure. Hammer DBs can be performed with light weight, anywhere from 20 to 30 reps and then straight to the standing bar curls. Always thankful for Jays insight
As always, great tips from the legend! Also, something to consider is that the biceps brachii supinate the forearm. So, really focusing on supination throughout the movement is a great cue for biceps development (i.e., a more neutral hand position biases the brachialis and brachioradialis more throughout the movement).
I remember trying to do a ton of fancy bicep variations in a workout one day. I couldn't move my arms without serious pain for about 4 days. Always sticking to 2-3 basic movements with 3 sets to form failure in the future.
@@magsvro6668 can you explain? How does protein affect pain level? I wasn't new to lifting so Idk mabye I stained a tendon or something. It felt a lot worse than my typical soreness.
I'm agree with Arnold when said that long biceps have more impact when you fatigue the muscle more than 90 degree. In fact twist and compress the muscles especially with lateral dumbells raise, but lift 90 degree could also works and it's good to change. Calves is more genetic problems that biceps but really nice biceps come also from natural genetic too. A pure natural person could understand the impact of exercise and what you can expect.
i like it when bodybuilders have some brains and apply intelligent programming instead of "let's add way too much volume and overtrain but since we're on peds it's fine"
I don't know whether Jay was pointing to his short or long head at the start. I think some people get confused about the anatomy. The long head is the outside, peaky part, which usually has a shorter belly than the (longer) short head on the inside. The long head is so named as it attaches higher up on the shoulder and unfortunately, is the cause of many frontal shoulder injuries I see in patients.
@@aakashkaushal1167 no he didn't. He said what he said. Quit trying to cheat the winning formula. Jay was multiple Mr Olympia he was definitely doing 12-16 exercises 3-4 sets each at his peak. How about we try to reach the goal instead of shortening it like it's in our human nature to do.
@@xCallxMExJJx that's the most ridiculous thing I've ever read. If your goal is to do 12 different bicep exercises in a workout, you're an absolute lunatic who knows zero about building muscle.
12 movements, 3 sets each? As in almost 40 sets per exercise? Holy shit man. I do about 5 movements with 2-3 sets each, and my arms feel blown up at the end of it, along with upper forearm cramps on MOST arm days because I do just a couple of sets of forearms after biceps.
Have the bicep movements that he talks about only one potentially would work the long head of the bicep. Your shoulders have to be behind you to work the long head, everything that he talked about except for maybe cable curls done in a specific way have your shoulders in front of you and only work the short head
Suppination is the key to the long head. Incline seated curls, 8to12 reps 4 working sets will blow them up. With hammer and barbell curls. All u need for bi's
I don’t think he meant 12-16 movements, but 12-16 sets, 3-4 sets per movement. Juice or not he’s got years n years of experience he def knows what he’s talking about.
You can use your hand/ fingers to target which bicep muscle you’re using if you Struggle to control them with your mind. For example: if you squeeze with the pinky and ring finger portion of the hand it will encourage the inside bi to activate more and if you squeeze more with the thumb, pointer finger you will target the outside bi more 👍👍
I work out 1 hour with 3 mins rest and I do one set of each workout of 10-12 reps, sometimes 15 it varies how I'm failing. Before I get bashed about this, I did try doing more sets and I noticed a negative effect such as getting weaker. THIS works best for me and I gain muscle, Idc about professional body building. I just want to be fit if that makes sense, I don't want to be huge and I just eat regular food with protein shakes obviously.
i had trouble with arms .or was never really worried about them when i was young. Actually i never done triceps and no one believed me.because i use to do pushups dips and hand stand presses every day and thought they were enough with my chest routine.wasn't till about maybe 26 i began training again and they blew up. I was preacher curling 250lbs maybe abit more,for 6-8 reps on my last set with a drop.super strict .was all about exaggerated eccentric holds at the time , then holding the squeeze for a bit at the top.but i was literally doing 9-12sets.on both bis tris 10-12/10-8/6-8 with a drop to failure.i was only 210 peeled.Natural never touched anything exept cell tech a few times .And my arms blew up.
