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Summary: To stretch the bicep and forearm you need to find your range of motion to avoid injury during muscle elongation. Learn how to do do bicep stretches with tips from a fitness instructor in this free stretching video.
Carol Childers has been a physical fitness trainer for 23 years. She is experienced in yoga, pilates, sports conditioning, core strength training and nutrition. She currently works...read more
"To effectively stretch the bicep front part of the arm and the lower part, the forearm, connects into the bicep, we're going to take our arm out to shoulder height, keeping a slight bend in the elbow joint, find your super nature palm back towards your body, and that's my active range of motion right there, that stopping point. Now, if I want to add in passive resistance, and what I'm doing is elongating and facilitating that stretch up, out and over, I can press against. Now, the goal here would be not to pull back, and flex that elbow joint out of line. We just want to press up, out and over, leaving the elbows soft, and press against the hand and then we reverse it by pointing our fingertips up towards the ceiling and again, pressing out and through, thinking of elongation when you're pressing against the opposite hand and not pulling back. Again, keeping a slight bend in the elbow, holding ten to thirty seconds on each side."
eHow Article: Bicep & Forearm Stretches