Arms · Cable · Isolation · Intermediate
Lying Cable Curl
Primary
- Main muscles
- Biceps
How to do it
- Grab a straight bar or E-Z bar attachment that is attached to the low pulley with both hands, using an underhand (palms facing up) shoulder-width grip.
- Lie flat on your back on top of an exercise mat in front of the weight stack with your feet flat against the frame of the pulley machine and your legs straight.
- With your arms extended and your elbows close to your body slightly bend your arms. This will be your starting position.
- While keeping your upper arms stationary and the elbows close to your body, curl the bar up slowly toward your chest as you breathe out and you squeeze the biceps.
- After a second squeeze at the top of the movement, slowly return to the starting position.
Swaps on other equipment
Each has the biceps as its main muscle and is also a pull, on a different piece of equipment.
Other bicep exercises
- Incline Dumbbell Curl · Dumbbell
- Incline Hammer Curls · Dumbbell
- Incline Inner Biceps Curl · Dumbbell
- Lying Close-Grip Bar Curl On High Pulley · Cable
- Lying High Bench Barbell Curl · Barbell
- Lying Supine Dumbbell Curl · Dumbbell
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