Press ups help Biceps?

[Gunn]

Hey lads and lasses, just wondering do press ups train biceps at all, and is there an exercise that can do biceps that does not involve any weight lifting equipment? i dont think there is but worth a try.

[Statistic]

Get a pull up bar from argos/index and fix it to your door - You can do chin ups (undergrasp) - these will work your biceps among other muscles.
You can increase effectiveness by holding the exercise at the bend - with the chin over the bar, or even better hold the exercise at the mid point with elbows at 90 degrees.

Press-ups do not work the biceps although depending on how you do them they may be active as support muscles, in other words they may support the other primary muscles being worked ... etc, etc ...

JZ

[Gunn]

im rather tall for my doors, i do use a pull up bar at a gym i go to, just wonderin if there is any other exercises that you do not need that sort of thing.

[Jamie T]

Gunn, why do you not want to use weights? Is it that you're young and don't want to stunt any growth or that you don't have the money and/or space for weights? I guess you could use the weights at the gym if you wanted to.
In an old issue of Men's Health, there was a pure workouts book that had ' how to's ' on every part of the body, including home workouts (minus weights). One bicep exercise in there was to hold your wrist with one hand to create resistance and do an ordinary bicep curl.

cheers

[Gunn]

I do use weights, i have dumbells at home, but for the more complex kit i go to a gym, i just find this a hinderance as i have very little time to go to the gym so i was just wondering if there was an exercise that can help me. Cheers for the help!

[Thrithraing]

Why don't you just use the dumb bells? Aside from anything else there's a million exercises you can do with them.

Apparently, when you train you will also train the opposite muscle 8%. So in theory, press ups will help your biceps but not very much.

[Gunn]

My dumbells are too light for me now, im not into low weight high reps, im into high weight low reps so they really arnt doing anything for me, i am waiting to get new ones.

[rambo]

You're pretty much stuck there mate, i think you'll need to rearange your routine during the day to make more time for going to the gym. Have you thought of that.

[Muzza]

Pack a bag full of bricks and curl it?

[Thrithraing]

Ah right...

Well, as Rambo says, I think there's no way around it really. I just bought a metal dumb bell/ bar bell set from Argos; it does the job and it'll last forever.

[Thrithraing]

Ah right...

Well, as Rambo says, I think there's no way around it really. I just bought a metal dumb bell/ bar bell set from Argos; it does the job and it'll last forever.

[Gunn]

Cheers for the help guys, looks like i will have to get some more dumbells and go to the gym more.

[cliffy]

pullups are the best bicep exercise without weights.
Press ups dont help biceps much.
Biceps are overrated.

[Gazza85]

I think the bullup bar is best, just think of how many kilos your lifting on each go.

[cliffy]

Damn right