Machine Preacher Curls

Biceps · Machine

How to do it

Sit in the machine and set the seat so **your armpit is wedged at the top of the pad** and the pivot lines up with your elbow. Grip the handles underhand, curl, squeeze for a second and lower to a full stretch without the plates resting. The machine pins the arm completely and gives tension through the whole range, bottom included. The classic mistake is not going all the way down for fear of the stretch: the bottom is exactly where a preacher curl works.

Variants

The drawing shows one way of doing it, and the technique above describes that one. Almost every exercise has variants — standing or seated, the grip, the bench angle — and is still the same exercise: if you do it another way, write it in the exercise note and you will have it every time you train it.

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