Barbell Wrist Curl
Barbell Wrist Curl trains 1 of the 18 muscle groups Full Coverage tracks: Forearms 90%.
How to do it
- Sit on a bench and rest your forearms on your thighs, palms up, wrists just past your knees.
- Hold a barbell and let your wrists drop back, letting the bar roll to your fingertips.
- Roll it back up and curl your wrists as high as they go.
- Squeeze, then lower slowly.
- Rolling to the fingertips is what makes this a grip exercise as well as a forearm one.
Muscles it trains
Percent of one session's target for that muscle. Anything at 100% finishes that muscle on its own.
- Forearms 90%
How it compares
Compared with the Wrist Curls, it loads every muscle to the same degree. It needs Barbell where the other uses Dumbbells + Bench. Compared with the Conventional Deadlift, it loads Lower back / erectors 85 points lower, Hamstrings 70 points lower, Glutes 70 points lower.
Other ways to train this
Other exercises for the Forearms
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