Preacher Curl

Biceps · Barbell

How to do it

Preacher bench: the back of your arm on the angled pad and your armpits against the top edge. Lower until the elbow is fully straight even if it feels awkward, and curl without lifting the arm off the pad. The pad stops the shoulder moving, so the biceps works isolated and in its stretched position. You feel it a lot at the bottom. The classic mistake is not going all the way down for fear of the stretch.

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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