Incline Dumbbell Curl

How to do it

1. Set a bench to about 45 degrees and sit back against it with a dumbbell in each hand.
2. Let your arms hang straight down behind the line of your body.
3. Curl the dumbbells up without letting your elbows drift forward.
4. Squeeze, then lower all the way to a full stretch.
5. The incline puts the biceps on stretch before you start, which is exactly what makes it harder.

Muscles it trains

Percent of one session's target for that muscle. Anything at 100% finishes that muscle on its own.

Other ways to train this

• Cable Curl Cable machine
• Zottman Curl Dumbbells

Photos and form cues from free-exercise-db, released into the public domain.