cramping biceps

[crabmasta]

every time i go to work out my biceps its like when i finish my two warm up sets they start cramping and shit, for my warm up i'll normaly just two sets of 20 barbell curls with no weight to get blood pumping. but the past few times its like they spend out out before my work out begins. my water intake is sufficaint. i dont overtrain my biceps for sure, and dont do them the day after back workout. any one else have this problem?

[BigBuck6]

The only time I have ever had this happen is when I haven't done heavy t-bar rows in a awhile and I really overloaded the Brachialis in which it took up to a weak to fully recover. I'm talking like 7-8 plates though so other possibles are heavy deads, rack pulls, or any other exercise that would put such extreme weight upon the elbow flexors. Could this be your case? Hope that helps!

[cherrydrpepper]

You look kind of young. Nothing wrong with that but it means your explanation of a problem is more prone to be off. I agree with BigBuck6. Are you sure its the bicep itself cramping? Its much more likely its either the brachialis on the upper forearm (I get tendonitis like BigBuck6 if I go too hard too fast on T bar rows also) or the tendon where the bicep meets the bone. We need more description more details please.

My suggestion is to switch to hammer curls dumbbell with strict form, followed by hammer curls with the rope. See if your bicep is feeling whatever it was bad before. If its not, probably tendonitis. Tendonitis can sometimes be mitigated by changing the hand position of an exercise which is what hammer curling versus regular curling does.

I had tendonitis in my left elbow. I took a week off just like Big. It got better. I stopped doing T bar rows which was the main offender causing my tendonitis. Try to isolate what exercise is irritating it. Is it barbell rows? Switch to seated preacher curls see if it doesn't hurt as bad. Still feels bad, switch to dumbbell curls, etc. Heck you could start a pull ups routine if you feel like putting biceps and back day together, and eventually work up to weighted pull ups.

Take some time off, try some things. Lastly there are some stretches that could help. I take an exercise band and I stand back about 10 feet away. I hold my arm straight out in front of me. I open and close my grip on the handle like i'm working my hand. What its really doing is stretching all those little extensors in the forearm. Get into stretching. Go to youtube. Type "bicep stretch" , "forearm stretch" etc. They can do miracles for your bodybuilding career.