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Barbell Wrist Curl

Barbell Wrist Curl

Sit on a bench with your forearms resting on your thighs and your wrists hanging over your knees, palms up. Hold a barbell with a shoulder-width supinated grip. Let the bar roll down to your fingertips, then curl it up by flexing your wrists. Squeeze hard at the top and lower under control. Keep elbows pinned and only the wrists moving.

How it is executed

  1. Sit on a bench with your forearms resting on your thighs and your wrists hanging over your knees, palms up.
  2. Hold a barbell with a shoulder-width supinated grip.
  3. Let the bar roll down to your fingertips, then curl it up by flexing your wrists.
  4. Squeeze hard at the top and lower under control.
  5. Keep elbows pinned and only the wrists moving.
Muscles worked
Forearms
Primary muscle
Forearms
Equipment
Barbell · Bench
Movement pattern
Pull
Difficulty
Intermediate
What it is for
Hypertrophy

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