Biceps Curls With Dumbbells – An Advanced Technique

Biceps curls with dumbbells can build great biceps, but there is a better way to do them to get bicep and shoulder definition. Most people neglect working the bicep in this manner, so we found video explaining how it is done.

Biceps Curls With Dumbbells Video “No Money Curls” by Jeff Cavaliere

We created a group of exercises which we named “Bulletproof Your Body.” Taking a look at different muscle groups, we’re looking at not only increasing size and strength, we’re also looking to have these parts of your body as free from injury as possible. One of the things we will look at is dumbbell bicep exercises.

It’s crazy how many trainers are all over the place who will have you do really dangerous stuff. In fact, we’ve witnessed firsthand, a trainer telling a person to do this exercise called the good mornings, which could really harm your lower back. Probably around 5% of the entire population might benefit from that movement. However, what happens for the remaining 95% is that they are likely to develop lower back problems caused by the exercise.

Ok, let’s take it one muscle at a time. For now, we’ll take a look at your shoulders and biceps. Many guys really focus on these because these muscles are readily visible, especially in the coming summer time. All the guys are really after having those nice muscular arms and shoulders. There’s this exercise which is similar to a bicep curl, but different, which we call the “No Money” curl. Remember the regular curl where we have two dumbbells, then standing up, we raise it from our thighs to our shoulders with our upper arm just firmly fixed in place to our side and not moving, only bending at the elbows? It’s similar. The thing is, this movement cannot truly isolate only the biceps because one of the muscles of the biceps runs all the way up to the shoulder attachment. Therefore, when you curl the bicep, it also works out your shoulder joint. In fact, if you overwork your biceps, your shoulder joint hurts to. There’s really no way to counteract that. Since only the front part of the joint is developed, you’ll have a tendency to hunch. You’ll see this on some people who lift weights – the more they develop their shoulders, chest and biceps, the more they hunch forward. The rotator cuff of the shoulder is often overlooked. Our goal now is to have a different kind of shoulder rotation to counteract this. The reason it’s named the “No Money” curl is because if you gestured that you had no money, this is what it’ll look like. Imagine someone borrowing money from you and you had to gesture whether you had money or not, this is probably what you’d do. Combining it with the curl, you curl from the starting position then rotate your shoulders back to this “No Money” position. The top of the motion has you rotate your shoulders back, so you work both the biceps and the rotator cuff. The sequence of movements are: curl up and a bit to the side, rotate shoulders back, then return to starting position.

This one-two punch movement is definitely a bullet-proof exercise. Not only are you working out your biceps, you’re also protecting and strengthening your joints. If you look at yourself in the mirror, you’ll see your shoulder rotating outward and back, exercising the rotator cuff. Doing this the usual way doesn’t involve the rotator cuff that much.

The Bullet-Proof exercise series will tackle all the major body parts and joints that you need to strengthen – you never know how small weak points in your body would lead to huge injuries like weak ankles affecting your back and posture. In fact, this might probably affect your shoulder joints too.

This series is very exciting! You really want to get into a program that focuses on strengthening you all throughout, not just the parts that look good at the beach. AthleanX is really a must. This program is specifically created for pros – strengthening and conditioning them in a way that still preserves their health and well-being. This is the core principle for AthleanX.

All the other programs online don’t necessarily have this in mind.

You can get more strength gains when you’re not injured right? Then stick to AthleanX and stay healthy and get stronger at the same time. Give biceps curls with dumbbells done the way Jeff suggests in the video.