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You wonder if pull-ups are enough for biceps? Can you fully train your biceps with this exercise alone or should you do additional exercises? After reading this article, you will know if pull-ups are enough for your biceps training, when it makes sense to do additional exercises and which ones are best for it.
Whether pull-ups are enough for biceps depends on your training plan. If you do a full body workout, the biceps are already sufficiently stressed by pull-ups. If you do a split workout, you can do additional exercises for the biceps.
Full body workout
In a full body workout, the biceps are already sufficiently stressed by pull-ups. Especially if you do another back exercise like rowing or lat, you don’t need to do another exercise for the biceps. If you want to get the biceps more involved in a full body workout, you can use an underhand grip in the back exercises. If you still want to do an isolation exercise for the biceps, you should make sure that you are fully recovered until the next training session.
Split Training
If you do a split workout, you can use the biceps much more than with a full body workout. Besides back exercises like pull-ups, lat pull-downs and rowing, you can also do isolation exercises for the biceps. Split training also allows you to target the long as well as the short head of the biceps with different grips. Other biceps exercises you can do include biceps curls, hammer curls and reverse curls.
Conclusion
Depending on the training plan you have, you can do more or less biceps exercises. In a full body workout, pull-ups are enough for the biceps. In a split workout, you can stress the biceps with additional exercises. Biceps exercises that you can do in addition to pull-ups include biceps curls, hammer curls and reverse curls.
Did this article help you plan your biceps workout? Feel free to share your experiences in the comments, I look forward to exchanging ideas with you. If you have any other questions about pull-ups, you can ask me there too, I’ll be happy to help!