Barbell Reverse Wrist Curl

Sit on a bench with your forearms resting on your thighs and your wrists hanging over your knees, palms down. Hold a barbell with a shoulder-width pronated grip. Let the bar drop slightly and then curl your wrists upward, lifting the bar by extending the wrists. Squeeze the top of the forearms and lower under control. Keep elbows fixed.

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Barbell Reverse Wrist Curl: how the movement is executed

How it is executed

Sit on a bench with your forearms resting on your thighs and your wrists hanging over your knees, palms down.
Hold a barbell with a shoulder-width pronated grip.
Let the bar drop slightly and then curl your wrists upward, lifting the bar by extending the wrists.
Squeeze the top of the forearms and lower under control.
Keep elbows fixed.

Muscles worked: Forearms
Primary muscle: Forearms
Equipment: BarbellBench
Movement pattern: Pull
Difficulty: Intermediate
What it is for: Hypertrophy

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