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Barbell Reverse Wrist Curl

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.

How it is executed

  1. Sit on a bench with your forearms resting on your thighs and your wrists hanging over your knees, palms down.
  2. Hold a barbell with a shoulder-width pronated grip.
  3. Let the bar drop slightly and then curl your wrists upward, lifting the bar by extending the wrists.
  4. Squeeze the top of the forearms and lower under control.
  5. Keep elbows fixed.
Muscles worked
Forearms
Primary muscle
Forearms
Equipment
Barbell · Bench
Movement pattern
Pull
Difficulty
Intermediate
What it is for
Hypertrophy

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