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Originally Posted by mitchcumstein
Ok, i saw your bicep thread so i came over here to see what you were doing and noticed a couple things. On Back day, do all your big lifts first and finish with biceps. If your hitting your bi's first then your Bigger lifts like BB rows will suffer. Those are the ones thatll put meat on your arms so you wanna be fresh so you can really move some weight. Id do it in this order if it were me.
*squats
*Deads
*bb rows
*pullups-these are great for bis
*and then do all the rest of the little lifts you do.
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I agree on one hand with you Mitch but the point you bring up is debatable in itself as there is another side to the coin.
* If he did his biceps first (as in prioritization), they'd be full strength for bicep work and therefore he'd lift his max efforts on direct bicep lifts like the barbell curl which mainly targets the biceps.
* BUT if he does biceps last after doing back work, then the biceps are heavily fatigued from the heavy backwork (which the biceps are an auxilery/assitance muscle) and therefore he will not have 100% effort for the direct bicep work.
It's a catch 22 as we all know heavy back work builds big biceps, but on the same token the biggest bicep builder is known as the barbell curl.
Thus is the reason I mix things up, sometimes I work biceps first, sometimes I throw them in last....same thing applies to grip changes (wide, medium, narrow)