Beth Skwarecki is Lifehacker’s Senior Health Editor, and holds certifications as a personal trainer and weightlifting coach. She has been writing about health for over 10 years. Curls are the classic ...

The quest for eye-catching biceps is an endless one, and often, it requires more than a simple standing dumbbell curl. Sure, the basics of biceps training are great, but it's too easy to cheat ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The spider curl is a variation of the biceps curl that utilizes a straight bar, dumbbells, or an EZ-bar. Spider curl's form is a ...

If you want big biceps and arms, do curls. If you want bigger biceps and arms, do different kinds of curls. Variations as simple as a change in wrist position or source of resistance allow you to ...

The first versions of the barbell were found in the 1860s in European gymnasiums, but Alan Calvert of the Milo Barbell Co. is credited with the first barbell patent in 1902. For the past 123 years, ...

Ah, biceps curls. In all likelihood, this is the exercise that first prompted you to set foot in a dimly-lit, musky weight room all those years ago. Sure, since then, you've learned that the biceps is ...