How often should i work my biceps?
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The larger the muscle group you are working, the longer rest it needs. For larger muscles, quads, lats and chest it is about 5-6 days. For smaller muscles like biceps I would recommend 3-4 days depending on how hard you work them.
Do a hard workout 8-10 sets of 6-9 reps, then rest 4 days.
Then do a light workout 6-8 sets of 9-12 reps, then rest 3 days.
However if you are still sore on your workout day, rest 1 extra day after the soreness goes away. Good luck on those biceps.
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Do upper body one day, then lower body, giving each a day of rest in between workouts. U need to workout other muscle groups so ur growth & strength are balanced. Each muscle has a complimentary muscle that works with it. One pulls up, another pulls down. Read up, or get a trainer, or make friends at the gym with someone u observe doing a good workout. That person most likely knows some things to help u.
yeah you should only work any muscle group as fast as it can heal If you do any back exercise such as rows or pullups, you work your biceps during those exercises as well. So do a seperate arm workout once a week if you do back once or twice a week.
How often you should exercise any given muscle group is a little tricky question to answer. There are many factors that can potentially contribute to overtraining. However, the general guideline is to rest any muscle group at least 24 hours (48 hours preferred, but not always necessary).
Muscle sourness usually is not a good indication of overtraining, because as with overtraining in general there are a number of factors that can contribute to it. All things being equal "listen" to your body and track your progress. If you are not progressing you could be overtraining.
If you are interested, I can let you in on a "secret" to great biceps development. Try to focus on compound, multi joint movements and stay away from isolation exercises. In other words, there are more benefits working your biceps indirectly with deadlifts, bench presses, rows, chin-ups, squats, etc rather then with curls. If you want to work your biceps directly choose exercises like barbell curls, preacher curls, reverse barbell curls, etc instead of single arm concentration curls.
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