Barbell palms up wrist curl over a bench
Forearms Barbell
How to do it
- 1Sit on a bench with your feet flat on the floor and grasp a bar with a supinated grip, palms up.
- 2Rest your forearms on the bench, letting your wrists hang off the edge.
- 3Keeping the forearms fixed, exhale and curl your wrists upward as far as possible.
- 4Hold the contracted position for a brief pause, then inhale and lower the bar slowly back to the start.
- 5Repeat for the desired number of reps.
More forearms exercises
- Smith standing back wrist curlSmith machine
- Dumbbell over bench revers wrist curlDumbbells
- Lever gripper handsLeverage machine
- Dumbbell one arm wrist curlDumbbells
- Dumbbell one arm reverse wrist curlDumbbells
- Finger curlsBarbell
- Band reverse wrist curlResistance band
- Cable reverse wrist curlCable
See it moving
In the app every exercise comes with its animation and the muscle marked on the body, with the set timer and the rests counted.
See NiudThis page is for information and doesn’t replace a professional. If you have an injury or a medical condition, ask first. Data from the open catalogue hasaneyldrm/exercises-dataset, MIT licence.

