The Concentration Curl: An Analysis Of Arm Exercises For Women

When choosing arm exercises for women, you have to include biceps exercises if you want the best looking arms. Many women only do triceps exercises because that’s where the arm flab hangs from.

Why? Because there is so much misinformation and misguided opinions out there that you are probably doing the wrong exercises. But don’t beat yourself up because it’s not your fault.

And it’s my goal to give you the truth behind the different arm exercises for women. Why is the truth so important? Because some of the most highly recommended exercises are the most dangerous.

Without further delay, here is my analysis of the concentration curl:

1. Description. Gym bunnies across the globe do these day and night in hopes of getting the bulging biceps of their dreams. Why? Maybe because the one and only Arnold can be seen doing them in his hysterical documentary, Pumping Iron. Once an exercise gets celebrity status its over

2. Technique: Sit down, grasp a dumbbell with one hand, keep your palm facing forward and place your elbow against your thigh or inner knee. Bend your arm and lift the dumbbell up. Then, slowly return the dumbbell to its original position.

3. Most common errors: Using a yanking motion to get the dumbbell up. This uses momentum, not muscle to perform the exercise. Pushing the elbow with the inner knee to get the weight up.

4. Bottom line: There are a couple issues with this exercise. First and foremost, exercising one arm at a time is very inefficient. Second, because of the position your body is in, it’s virtually impossible to do this exercise with a lot of weight. And you need to use a lot of weight for the fastest arm toning.

So now you know two things about arm exercises for women. One, you should be doing biceps exercises. And two, you shouldn’t be doing concentration curls. Look out for my next analysis!