Finger Curls

ForearmsBarbellBeginnerIsolation
Finger Curls — start position
Start
Finger Curls — finish position
Finish
Muscles worked
PrimaryForearms

How to do it

  1. 01

    Hold a barbell with both hands and your palms facing up; hands spaced about shoulder width.

  2. 02

    Place your feet flat on the floor, at a distance that is slightly wider than shoulder width apart. This will be your starting position.

  3. 03

    Lower the bar as far as possible by extending the fingers. Allowing the bar to roll down the hands, catch the bar with the final joint in the fingers.

  4. 04

    Now curl bar up as high as possible by closing your hands while exhaling. Hold the contraction at the top.

In the app

Finger Curls appears when you own a barbell 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 barbell

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

With cable
With dumbbell
With barbell

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