Reverse Cable Curl

What it is

This isolation movement primarily strengthens your biceps and also engages your forearms. You perform it using a cable machine, curling a straight bar with an overhand grip. It helps develop upper arm definition and grip strength.

Technique tips

• Use an overhand grip, hands shoulder-width apart.
• Keep your upper arms locked stationary against your sides.
• Curl the bar smoothly, moving only your forearms.
• Squeeze your biceps at the top of the movement.
• Control the bar's return to the starting position.
• Breathe out as you curl up, breathe in as you lower the weight.

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.