Reverse Curls

Stand holding a straight bar at your thighs with a pronated (palms-down) grip, your hands spaced about shoulder-width apart. Wrap your thumbs around the bar for safety.Keep your chest up and eyes forward, and bend your knees slightly.

Pull your abs in tight and maintain the arch in your lower back to provide stability and prevent injury.

Without swaying at the hips, flex your biceps and forearms and curl the weight toward your shoulders in a smooth arc. Raise the bar to the highest position possible without moving your elbows forward until your forearm touches your biceps then squeeze the working muscles hard for a two-count. Lower the bar along the same path, stopping just short of lockout. Repeat.

TIPS

If you aren't accustomed to using the straight bar, use lighter weights at first. Make sure you warm up sufficiently before attempting to lift heavier weight.

Avoid using momentum to help you get through the lift; have a spotter help you through the sticking points. Using momentum causes you to lean back, shifting the muscular emphasis away from the working muscles, and could cause back injury.

Keeping a slight bend in your knees takes pressure off the lower back. Widen your stance to shoulder width for additional balance.

Keep your elbows back throughout the movement. Allowing your elbows to move forward reduces the stress on your targeted muscles, involves your front deltoids to a greater extent and lessens the overall effectiveness of the exercise.

Using a barbell lets you more effectively maintain a pronated grip throughout the exercise. The slight supination allowed when using an EZ-bar or dumbbells decreases the emphasis on the brachialis in this exercise, but you should include other supinated- and neutral-grip exercises at other points in your workout.

Keep your hands in line with your forearms throughout the exercise and lock your wrists in place, extended back slightly. Don't allow your wrists to flex forward during the set.

Until next week with your next powerful wrist and forearm strengthening exercise tip ~ creating powerful wrists and forearms is the secret to becoming an outstanding and memorable player!!

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