Standing Curls

I been stuck at 100 pounds at doing Standing Curls for like 8 months now.
I cant move up in that department...but can in the others.

Is that like a certain weight for Standing Curls that most people max out at
? Im 6' 2" and 225 pounds.

john wrote:
> I been stuck at 100 pounds at doing Standing Curls for like 8 months
> now. I cant move up in that department...but can in the others.
>
> Is that like a certain weight for Standing Curls that most people max
> out at ? Im 6' 2" and 225 pounds.
While everybody has some limit, why not change things. Without knowing
your goal, making no progress for 8 months seems pointless.

Do less weight for more reps, more sets for a while, or do more weight
less reps for a while. Play with changing intensity and volume. Maybe
even stop doing them at all for a few weeks.

Bob

Bob Volkmer <m...@volkmer.biz> wrote:
> john wrote:
> > I been stuck at 100 pounds at doing Standing *Curls for like 8 months
> > now. I cant move up in that department...but can in the others.
>
> > Is that like a certain weight for Standing Curls that most people max
> > out at ? *Im 6' 2" and 225 pounds.
>
> While everybody has some limit, why not change things. Without knowing
> your goal, making no progress for 8 months seems pointless.
>
> Do less weight for more reps, more sets for a while, or do more weight
> less reps for a while. Play with changing intensity and volume. Maybe
> even stop doing them at all for a few weeks.
>
> Bob

X2

Variety should certainly help. Google 'plateau' related to weight
training, too. I bet there are books out there related to increasing
your weight used in exercises.

Oh, and mini plates! I have a series of, well, basically they're
washers. Same size of hole as you'll find on an adjustable dumbbell.
Got the washers at a local hardware store and weighed them on a scale
at the convenience store where I was working part-time way back when.

I still have those plates right here: Four each of .19 pounds, .26
pounds, and .39 pounds. You might be stuck at 100 pounds on your
barbell curls, but I bet you could take two .19 or .26 (just over a
quarter pound) and add those to the mix and complete a set of -
where's my calculator? - curls with 100.38 pounds (using the pair of .
19'ers) or 100.52 pounds (using the pair of .26-pound plates).

Heck, you wouldn't even realize that you'd made that progressive
"jump".

Progressive resistance, John. If you can't find a washer with an
Olympic plate-sized hole then use the standard barbell or get some
duct tape and tape those mini plates on and move that weight.

Tiny increments make big muscles!

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