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Personally I think that's just as stupid. Who is going to put as much effort into training forearms as legs.
I never train forearms, calves extremely rarely and you can't tell.
As much as people bag the bros. If you just want to look good spending most of the time training your mirror muscles is the best bet.
Rugby88
I have Ep1c Calendar kunce
haha - now your just nit-picking - of course most people wont train forearms/calves as hard as other bodyparts - I am talking to main muscle groups -
Legs
Back
Arms
Shoulders
Chest
Saying that though it is not very hard to destroy forearms and calves - 5-10 mins of HIT (weights) and that will be plenty.
I have been thinking this exact thing. Plenty of shit put on people who refuse to train legs but they don't look any more stupid than someone who can squat and dead 300kgs but have arms like a 12 year old netball player. An unbalanced physique looks dumb regardless of which bit is left behind.
Goosey
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for shoulder health mainly...
If people worked the bicep curl as hard and the intensity of work was as hard as the other exercises then results would be different.
one set would be sufficient, two max, if you need to do three, you didn't work hard enough.
but the regular (heavy) bicep curl with a barbell should be in the top 10 list of exercises, this is not an "arms only" exercise, it's an "everything exercise" when it is done correctly...and heavy.
the leverage is so great that when in the half way position it works the back as much as a set of heavy stiff legged deadlifts and the downward pull on the shoulders works the entire shoulder girdle, if you could do a strict curl for bodyweight, that would be an amazing feat of strength, and one would look pretty muscular, Ive only seen a few do this; Grimek, Pearl and Reg Park.
If people worked the bicep curl as hard and the intensity of work was as hard as the other exercises then results would be different.
one set would be sufficient, two max, if you need to do three, you didn't work hard enough.
but the regular (heavy) bicep curl with a barbell should be in the top 10 list of exercises, this is not an "arms only" exercise, it's an "everything exercise" when it is done correctly...and heavy.
the leverage is so great that when in the half way position it works the back as much as a set of heavy stiff legged deadlifts and the downward pull on the shoulders works the entire shoulder girdle, if you could do a strict curl for bodyweight, that would be an amazing feat of strength, and one would look pretty muscular, Ive only seen a few do this; Grimek, Pearl and Reg Park.
Not nit picking at all. You were the one that said to train all muscles equally which in my opinion is stupid.
I also wouldn't train arms as hard as chest, back or legs either.
Calves and forearms, couldn't really be bothered with 5-10 min personally.
