Many of us dream about having the perfect body and the biggest muscles.
Whether its the desire to impress your partner or for your own self esteem, getting the strength and muscle mass you dream about may mean that your bicep workout becomes part of your daily life, if not a prominent feature.
If you are focused, driven to succeed and enjoy your bodybuilding regime, there is no reason why you cannot succeed.
However, when the desire to get into the gym and start training stems from negative feelings of having a weedy body, feeling inadequate with your team mates or being fed up looking like the scrawniest guy in the gym, the drive to get fast results and end the nightmare can actually result in obsession.
Before you know it, your bicep workout or gym routine can be overidden with excess and actually be detrimental to your health.
Not only that, you are so hell bent on seeing visible results quickly that you begin to go down the dark road of illegal substances and enhancers.
Dedication is one thing.
Complementing your bicep workout with illegal drugs, overtraining and using cheat movements in your workouts is another.
All this obsession does is result in excess, not success.
You will not reach your goals and be a successful bodybuilder if you lose sight of your long term goals, choosing to go for rigorous, short term solutions.
Because this is all that excess in the gym can be - short term.
The excess will catch up with you eventually, depending on your age and fitness levels.
After all, none of us are machines! You are less likely to reach burn out and more likely to see rewarding results if you are focused on a stable, long term plan of action.
Instead, obsession in the gym simply feeds your fear of underachievement so all planning and realistic goals are lost and you completely lose sight of what it is you are trying to achieve.
Instead, cheat exercises take over, resulting in the burn out we have touched on above but also leading to joint and muscle pain in the not too distant future.
So what evidence are we looking for when we talk about harmful exercise? Well, this can take many forms.
If you are concerned about a gym partner or have a feeling that your have let obsession take hold, have a look at how certain apparatus is being used in the gym.
Is overtraining a problem? Are very wide grips on the bench press being used? Are heels raised when squatting? How about bench pressing to the upper chest? These are only a handful of harmful exercises to check out.
The most important element when thinking about setting up a healthy and successful bicep workout or bodybuilding regime therefore is balancing the fitness program with other aspects of our lives, including family, friends and other interests, rather than letting the gym be the boss.
It is important to keep motivated and build up momentum when training, but do not over-train or feel the need to be in the gym more than three times a week.
Another critical factor is choosing the right exercises.
The aim here is to keep things simple by electing for the biggest, most basic exercises and without concentrating too hard on one area of the body at once - in fact, it is better to exercise one particular body part no more than twice a week with a combination of exercises.
This will help avoid any long term damage to the joints in the future.
Finally, focus on a long term strategy, rather than looking for short term results in an unhealthy manner based on harmful exercises and an excessive bicep workout, all detrimental to your joints and muscles.
Whether its the desire to impress your partner or for your own self esteem, getting the strength and muscle mass you dream about may mean that your bicep workout becomes part of your daily life, if not a prominent feature.
If you are focused, driven to succeed and enjoy your bodybuilding regime, there is no reason why you cannot succeed.
However, when the desire to get into the gym and start training stems from negative feelings of having a weedy body, feeling inadequate with your team mates or being fed up looking like the scrawniest guy in the gym, the drive to get fast results and end the nightmare can actually result in obsession.
Before you know it, your bicep workout or gym routine can be overidden with excess and actually be detrimental to your health.
Not only that, you are so hell bent on seeing visible results quickly that you begin to go down the dark road of illegal substances and enhancers.
Dedication is one thing.
Complementing your bicep workout with illegal drugs, overtraining and using cheat movements in your workouts is another.
All this obsession does is result in excess, not success.
You will not reach your goals and be a successful bodybuilder if you lose sight of your long term goals, choosing to go for rigorous, short term solutions.
Because this is all that excess in the gym can be - short term.
The excess will catch up with you eventually, depending on your age and fitness levels.
After all, none of us are machines! You are less likely to reach burn out and more likely to see rewarding results if you are focused on a stable, long term plan of action.
Instead, obsession in the gym simply feeds your fear of underachievement so all planning and realistic goals are lost and you completely lose sight of what it is you are trying to achieve.
Instead, cheat exercises take over, resulting in the burn out we have touched on above but also leading to joint and muscle pain in the not too distant future.
So what evidence are we looking for when we talk about harmful exercise? Well, this can take many forms.
If you are concerned about a gym partner or have a feeling that your have let obsession take hold, have a look at how certain apparatus is being used in the gym.
Is overtraining a problem? Are very wide grips on the bench press being used? Are heels raised when squatting? How about bench pressing to the upper chest? These are only a handful of harmful exercises to check out.
The most important element when thinking about setting up a healthy and successful bicep workout or bodybuilding regime therefore is balancing the fitness program with other aspects of our lives, including family, friends and other interests, rather than letting the gym be the boss.
It is important to keep motivated and build up momentum when training, but do not over-train or feel the need to be in the gym more than three times a week.
Another critical factor is choosing the right exercises.
The aim here is to keep things simple by electing for the biggest, most basic exercises and without concentrating too hard on one area of the body at once - in fact, it is better to exercise one particular body part no more than twice a week with a combination of exercises.
This will help avoid any long term damage to the joints in the future.
Finally, focus on a long term strategy, rather than looking for short term results in an unhealthy manner based on harmful exercises and an excessive bicep workout, all detrimental to your joints and muscles.