Reverse Barbell Preacher Curls

Biceps · Barbell

How to do it

Grip an EZ bar **overhand**, palms down, at shoulder width, and rest the backs of your arms on the preacher pad. Curl to shoulder height, squeeze for a second and lower slowly to a stretch. The reverse grip loads the brachioradialis and brachialis, not the biceps, so you lift considerably less than you expect. The classic mistake is loading it like a normal preacher curl: with a pronated grip the wrist gives out much sooner.

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.

Also works: Forearms

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