Strength exercise

Incline Hammer Curl

How to do it

  1. Sit back on an incline bench set to roughly 45 degrees and let both arms hang straight down at your sides, holding a dumbbell in each hand with a neutral, palms-in grip.
  2. Keep your shoulders pinned against the pad so your arms hang slightly behind your torso for a deep stretch at the bottom.
  3. Brace your core and press your back into the bench to stop your shoulders rounding forward.
  4. Curl both dumbbells up toward your shoulders while keeping your palms facing each other, working the biceps and brachialis through the neutral grip.
  5. Exhale as you curl up and inhale as you lower the dumbbells back to the stretched position under control.
  6. Keep your elbows fixed at your sides throughout; letting them drift forward turns tension away from the target muscles.

Muscles worked

BicepsMuscles located in the upper arm, primarily responsible for flexing the elbow. All Biceps exercises

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Type
Strength
Equipment
Dumbbells
Primary muscles
Biceps
Measured in
Reps and weight