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What bicep exercises don’t suck? Straight bar curls, cable curls, preacher curls all suck to do. Hammer curls are ok
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Anonymous 5w

Underhand lat pull down with a close grip (keep your hands close together on the bar). Mike mentzer approved

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Anonymous 5w

Preachers are great. Chin-ups (palms facing you) are a great bicep exercise.

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Anonymous 5w

Machine preacher curls 5-8 reps n ill die on that hill

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Anonymous 5w

Hammers aren’t a bicep exercise

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Anonymous 5w

Changing up the rep range and pushing your sets harder may change your opinion. I used to dislike training biceps until I started training them with really high intensity

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Anonymous 5w

Why do they suck

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Anonymous 5w

Spider curls

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Anonymous 5w

What’s the particular issue you’re having with bicep exercises that make them suck?

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Anonymous 5w

Pullups

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 5w

…what are they then?

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 5w

Brachioradialis, one of your forearm muscles. A supinated grip is going to make elbow flexion utilize your biceps primarily, while a neutral or pronated grip is going to utilize the brachioradialis primarily. All elbow flexor muscles will be active to some extent during any kind of elbow flexion, so your biceps will be doing a little bit during a hammer curl, but you shouldn’t consider it a bicep exercise

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 5w

I disagree that they’re all too great tbh

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 5w

They arent fun:(

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 5w

Which exercises do you find fun? It’ll be easier to narrow down how to make bicep exercises fun from there. Bicep curls used to be my favorite for a while lol

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 5w

I like most leg and push exercises lol I just dislike most pull exercises. Probably cuz I have bad grip strength

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 5w

I get you on the grip strength part. I have that issue with deadlifts. Maybe you could try doing certain push up variations that target the biceps more. Or going for lower weight on your curls but higher reps.

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Anonymous replying to -> #8 5w

preachers are great, chin-ups are a little iffy, no reason to be including your back in a bicep movement

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 5w

Probably not the best best but it’s a good compound movement overall for bicep forearm and lats. I usually do that and then some bicep curls to further isolate the bicep

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 5w

This sounds so much better than assist chin-ups

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