The movement uses grip manipulation to really work your biceps—by resting the top of the vertical dumbbell on your palms, rather than gripping the sides, you put maximum tension on your bicep, and less on the forearm.
The Wide D Grip Pulldown Bar is a more “shoulder friendly” way of training lats. If you have some old shoulder injuries you may find the neutral grip more comfortable, especially on wide grip pulldowns.
The close neutral grip lat pull-down, or close grip v-bar pull-down, is a mass and strength building exercise which primarily targets the latissimus dorsi (Lats) muscles. But the upper back (Rhomboids) is also heavily stimulated during this exercise because of the close grip bar, plus the biceps and forearms get a good workout since you’re using them to pull the weight.
The dumbbell bicep curl is a single-joint exercise for building bigger and stronger biceps. It is important to choose a weight that you can control for the desired number of repetitions without using the momentum from your back to perform the movement.
Want to target your biceps? This is the exercise for you. The cables provide constant tension throughout the movement even at the peak.
An upper body bicep workout that uses your bodyweight as the leverage. You can make the exercise easier or harder by moving your feet further away or closer to the TRX anchor point.
This exercise isolates the biceps and allows a greater range of motion than standard bicep curls as your arms hang beneath your body.
No idea why they are called Spider Curls. Just do them. They are a snazzy exercise to help manipulate that force curve and allow more tension in the upper range of motion. A place many people don’t quite get to!
A slight twist on a standard bicep exercise. The use of the EZ curl bar means it is a bit nicer on the wrists (providing you hold it right!) and is a different sensation due to the positioning and rotation of the forearms.
This variation of the barbell bicep curl helps engage the extensors in the forearms which often can be the weak link for people when it comes to training!
Like with most exercises, there is always a slight variation to refresh an exercise. Hammer curls are just that – making what was old – new again!
There are many possible variations for this movement. For instance, you can perform the exercise sitting down on a bench with or without back support and you can also perform it by alternating arms; first lift the right arm for one repetition, then the left, then the right, etc.