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    Well I have been on this forum for awhile and learned that biceps are seemingly useless and more of a beach muscle. However i would still like to gain muscle and mass in my biceps. Usually my workout consists of more than one exercise for each "muscle group"(etc. bench/dumbell bench for chest and dips/tricep pulldown for tris) but I dont know any other bicep exercises. I do one warm up set and then 3 sets from there on. Is this one exercise enough to gain mass and muscle on my biceps?

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    Quote Originally Posted by BringDaBlitz94 View Post
    Well I have been on this forum for awhile and learned that biceps are seemingly useless and more of a beach muscle. However i would still like to gain muscle and mass in my biceps. Usually my workout consists of more than one exercise for each "muscle group"(etc. bench/dumbell bench for chest and dips/tricep pulldown for tris) but I dont know any other bicep exercises. I do one warm up set and then 3 sets from there on. Is this one exercise enough to gain mass and muscle on my biceps?
    Your biceps aren't useless. The problem is that too many n00bs focus on the muscles that they can see in the mirror and ignore the rest. So your body ends up look disproportionate and open to injury.

    Here's a place where you can find a wide variety of exercises.
    So many cries of inequality stem from one of group
    of people doing little or nothing and then bitching
    about another group that actually does something
    to improve their lives.

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    How often are you doing it? How much, how often, and which upper body pulling movements (Like rows and pullups/pulldowns) do you do?
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    Guess biceps might be useless if you never intend to use your arms to do anything

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    Also, it's not that the biceps are useless, far from it. Doing 12 sets of curls in one workout is useless. Some of us, myself included, have probably gone overboard when talking about direct arm work in the past. There is nothing wrong with direct arm work, but I just feel that a lot of people spend an inordinate amount of time training isolation arm movements.
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