Straight Bar or EZ Curl ?

[Admin]

What do you use for bicep curls and why ?

 

[Rugby88]

Prefer straight bar

 

[Goosey]

Straight bar enables me to really achieve a good contraction of the biceps.
I purposely grip the bar with my pinky and forth finger, rather than my thumb and second finger.

The ez curl, after time gives me sore elbows, I believe it's due to the fact that the muscles of the forearm are getting a hit.

 

[Breadcooker]

Agreed, straight bar seems to work better for me too.

 

[bull]

You bastards must all have wrists made out of rubber. The straight bar destroys my wrists almost immediately.

 

[Goosey]

You bastards must all have wrists made out of rubber. The straight bar destroys my wrists almost immediately.

Flexible and strong, strong and flexible

 

[Bazza20]

I just like the ez curl bar because it always feels like its working the guns better than the straight bar.

 

[Darkoz]

I would have thought this was a no brainer

 

[Sydneysider Scott]

I tend to use the straight bar for barbell curls and the EZ bar for preacher curls


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[Neddysmith]

Usually use straight as it is just easy at my gym with the preloaded weights, but at the moment have been using db more and more, haven't use the ez bar for ages

 

[Grunta]

Ez bar first, move a lot more weight as the wrists are in a natural position.
Straight bar next, move less weight cos wrists are twisted out, but better contraction of the biceps.

 

[Big Mick]

Use both, depending on how I feel but ezy bar more often lately, went through a stage a couple of years ago where I was using straight bar exclusively, was thinking of going back to straight bar.

Does anyone use a close grip, ie hands next to each other in the centre of the bar, used to do them yeas ago.

 

[Grunta]

Use both, depending on how I feel but ezy bar more often lately, went through a stage a couple of years ago where I was using straight bar exclusively, was thinking of going back to straight bar.

Does anyone use a close grip, ie hands next to each other in the centre of the bar, used to do them yeas ago.

No, not any longer, the movement is way too short and awkward, not sure what it achieves.

 

[logan]

Straight bar hurts my wrists

 

[slash]

Read somewhere the main purpose of the bicep is to rotate the wrist outwards so ezy bar would defeat the purpose?

 

[Alpha Moth]

Read somewhere the main purpose of the bicep is to rotate the wrist outwards so ezy bar would defeat the purpose?

The main function of the biceps brachii muscle is NOT supination, it is elbow flexion.

 

[Alpha Moth]

Straight bar hurts my wrists

Try and keep your wrists a little bit extended, see how that goes

 

[Goosey]

The main function of the biceps brachii muscle is NOT supination, it is elbow flexion.

No, you are mislead and slash is correct, the brachialis is the shorter bicep the attaches to the arm and inserts into the forearm that's main function is to bend the arm

The two brachi heads supinate the hand and raise the arm over the head.

This becomes obvious if you goose neck your hand try to flex the bicep.

You can't

Now turn you hand around.

Now lift you arm over your head.

 

[Alpha Moth]

No, you are mislead and slash is correct, the brachialis is the shorter bicep the attaches to the arm and inserts into the forearm that's main function is to bend the arm

The two brachi heads supinate the hand and raise the arm over the head.

This becomes obvious if you goose neck your hand try to flex the bicep.

You can't

Now turn you hand around.

Now lift you arm over your head.

I didn't say anything about the brachialis? I said the main function of the biceps brachii is elbow flexion, and not supination (even though it does supinate, and also flexes the shoulder). What you are saying that the main function of the biceps brachii is forearm supination and shoulder flexion?

 

[Goosey]

I don't know WTF you're talking about now