Arms · Barbell · Isolation · Beginner
Wrist Rotations with Straight Bar
Primary
- Main muscles
- Forearms
How to do it
- Hold a barbell with both hands and your palms facing down; hands spaced about shoulder width. This will be your starting position.
- Alternating between each of your hands, perform the movement by extending the wrist as though you were rolling up a newspaper. Continue alternating back and forth until failure.
- Reverse the motion by flexing the wrist, rolling the opposite direction. Continue the alternating motion until failure.
Swaps on other equipment
Each has the forearms as its main muscle and is also a pull, on a different piece of equipment.
Other forearm exercises
- Seated Palms-Down Barbell Wrist Curl · Barbell
- Seated Two-Arm Palms-Up Low-Pulley Wrist Curl · Cable
- Standing Olympic Plate Hand Squeeze · Other
- Standing Palms-Up Barbell Behind The Back Wrist Curl · Barbell
- Wrist Circles · Bodyweight
- Wrist Roller · Other
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