Barbell Curls Guide
- Exercise Type: Isolation - focuses on targeting and isolating specific muscle groups, allowing for targeted muscle development.
- Targeted Muscle Groups:
- primary: biceps
- secondary: forearm
- tertiary: rotator cuff, transverse abdominis
- quaternary: upper back
How to perform?
This movement usually starts from the elbows and is in a fully extended position (against the thigh) with a supinated grip. Then biceps begin contracting to lift the weight, upward to shoulder. The second part of the motion is the eccentric phase that has the elbow joint slowly extending as weight is lowering back to the starting position.
Variations
- Concentration Curlsisolation
- Dumbbell Hamstring Curlisolation
- Dumbbell Preacher Curlsisolation
- EZ Bar Curlsisolation
- EZ-Bar Preacher Curlsisolation
- Incline Dumbbell Curlsisolation
- Machine Preacher Curlsisolation
- Nautilus Bicep Curlsisolation
- Reverse Dumbbell Curlsisolation
- Reverse EZ-Barbell Curlsisolation
- Seated Alternating Dumbbell Curlsisolation
- Seated Alternating Dumbbell Hammer Curlisolation
- Seated Dumbbell Curlsisolation
- Seated Hammer Dumbbell Curlsisolation
- Standing Wide Cable Curlisolation
- Standing Hammer Curlsisolation
- Standing Dumbbell Curlsisolation
- Standing EZ-Bar Cable Curlisolation
- Standing Alternating Dumbbell Curlisolation
- Standing Alternating Dumbbell Hammer Curlisolation
- Spider Dumbbell Curlsisolation