Cross Body Hammer Curl

What it is

This movement effectively targets your biceps. You perform it by curling a dumbbell across your body towards the opposite shoulder, maintaining a neutral hand position. This isolation exercise is excellent for building strength and definition in your upper arms and forearms.

Technique tips

• Stand tall, keeping your core engaged and stable.
• Keep your elbows fixed, allowing only your forearms to move.
• Exhale as you curl the dumbbell, inhale as you lower it.
• Focus on squeezing your biceps at the top of the movement.
• Control the descent, slowly lowering the weight back down.
• Prevent your body from twisting; lift with your bicep.

How to track your progress

Log the weight and reps of each set. Straddly turns every set into an estimated one-rep max, so a heavier single and a strong set of eight both count as progress, and it flags a personal record the moment you beat your best.