Cross Body Hammer Curl

How to do it

1. Stand tall holding a dumbbell in each hand at your sides with a neutral, palms-facing-in grip and feet hip-width apart.
2. Keep your elbow pinned to your side and curl one dumbbell diagonally across your body toward the opposite shoulder.
3. Brace your core and keep your standing posture still, resisting any urge to lean toward the working side.
4. Squeeze the biceps at the top where the dumbbell crosses toward your opposite shoulder, then pause briefly.
5. Exhale as you curl across and inhale as you lower the dumbbell back down the same diagonal path.
6. Alternate arms with control; do not swing the dumbbell or shrug your shoulder to add height to the curl.

Muscles worked

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