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Old 10-09-2009, 04:54 PM   #10 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by RedLefty View Post

This is where your point that "the body doesn't know whether it's chinpus or curls" falls a little flat, even just talking about the biceps. Chinups work so many other, larger muscles besides the biceps that there's potential for more muscular microtrauma, more growth and more endocrinological goodness. The bicep may not know what the exercise was, but the body does.
Good point. What if I changed it to something like supinated grip dumbbell curls vs. any of the following: neutral grip dumbbell curls, barbell curls, or hammer curls. That makes a better point to what I'm arguing. Well, trying to figure out, not arguing.
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