Cable Preacher Curl

BicepsCableBeginnerIsolation
Cable Preacher Curl — start position
Start
Cable Preacher Curl — finish position
Finish
Muscles worked
PrimaryBiceps
SecondaryForearms

How to do it

  1. 01

    Place a preacher bench about 2 feet in front of a pulley machine.

  2. 02

    Attach a straight bar to the low pulley.

  3. 03

    Sit at the preacher bench with your elbow and upper arms firmly on top of the bench pad and have someone hand you the bar from the low pulley.

  4. 04

    Grab the bar and fully extend your arms on top of the preacher bench pad. This will be your starting position.

  5. 05

    Now start pilling the weight up towards your shoulders and squeeze the biceps hard at the top of the movement. Exhale as you perform this motion. Also, hold for a second at the top.

  6. 06

    Now slowly lower the weight to the starting position.

  7. 07

    Repeat for the recommended amount of repetitions.

In the app

Cable Preacher Curl appears when you own a cable stack and the day's window has room for it. Loads come from Rule 3 (Loads rise when earned, read from RPE, graded strong) and climb on the reps you actually did.

If a machine is taken the engine swaps a same-pattern movement and says why.

If you don't have a cable stack

Same movement pattern, same primary muscles — swap by what you have.

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