I get a lot forearm when doing preacher curls, why is that? Also is it safe to angle your elbow a bit outwards instead of completely straight, I find I can lift more weight this way, but it also might be cheating…
Edit: EZ Bar preachers
I get a lot forearm when doing preacher curls, why is that? Also is it safe to angle your elbow a bit outwards instead of completely straight, I find I can lift more weight this way, but it also might be cheating…
Edit: EZ Bar preachers
No danger with angling your elbow, if it feels good, your body can take it.
As for feeling it in the forearms, the brachioradialis does elbow flexion alongside the biceps and brachialis. Doing reverse grip curls with ez bar burns the brachioradialis pretty hard in my experience.
Also, try doing smaller jumps if you can, does your gym not have 1.25kg plates?
Nah, it’s a new, small community kinda gym, I actually have nagged them but because DBs over 15kg had fricking 5kg increments, but I always thought 2.5kg was fine for progressively overloading
Also I want to minimize branchioradialis involvement, they grow like weed and make my forearms look very disproportional
2.5kg is fine for compound exercises, but smaller muscles don’t grow stronger that quick, it’s especially noticeable on movements you can’t cheat to compensate.
What sort of unicorn are you? Alongside calves they’re the most stubborn muscles I got.
Stay away from pronated grip in that case, do curls in supinated position. Try out incline dumbbell curls or bayesian curls and see how those feel, personally I never feel it in my forearms on those, other than grip sometimes.
Genetics lol, my legs and branchioradialis are (relatively) strong AF but my delts and forearms are extremely stubborn, I have never heard of bayesian curls though, will try them, already do incline on one of my pull days