Best Muscle Building Arm Exercise

Standing barbell curls may be the best muscle building arm exercise for stimulating lean muscle growth in your biceps. While very few people rely on this basic arm exercise, the results that you can gain by adding it to your arm workouts are nothing short of amazing!  When I first started getting serious about building bigger arms, I took a “back to the basics” approach and ditched all of the serious isolation movements like concentration curls, preacher curls, machine curls and cable curls and formed my arm workouts around standing barbell curls.

I focused on lifting as much weight as possible through a full range of motion without using momentum and the muscles in my lower back to move the weights.  Not only did I get a lot stronger quickly, I soon began to notice that the size of my biceps was steadily increasing as well. Over the course of 4 weeks I was able to add an inch of pure muscle mass to my arm by performing no other muscle building arm exercises.

Ever since this experience, I’ve made standing barbell curls a mainstay in my arm workouts. If I’m running behind at the gym and I don’t have time for a full biceps workout, I just make sure to get 2 – 3 heavy sets of barbell curls in and move on with my life without worrying about losing any size or strength in my arms! If you’re serious about pacing on muscle mass in your arms and you’re already focusing your efforts on training your triceps appropriately, then you may want to work in a few sets of heavy standing barbell curls into your arm workouts each week.  There is simply no better muscle building arm exercise that I can think of off hand.

Check out this exercise demonstration page if you want to learn how to perform the barbell curl with correct muscle building form. If you’re looking for a few other effective arm exercises then visit the muscle building arm exercises page and check out my favorite biceps exercises!

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