Lying Cable Curl

BicepsCableIntermediateIsolation
Lying Cable Curl — start position
Start
Lying Cable Curl — finish position
Finish
Muscles worked
PrimaryBiceps

How to do it

  1. 01

    Grab a straight bar or E-Z bar attachment that is attached to the low pulley with both hands, using an underhand (palms facing up) shoulder-width grip.

  2. 02

    Lie flat on your back on top of an exercise mat in front of the weight stack with your feet flat against the frame of the pulley machine and your legs straight.

  3. 03

    With your arms extended and your elbows close to your body slightly bend your arms. This will be your starting position.

  4. 04

    While keeping your upper arms stationary and the elbows close to your body, curl the bar up slowly toward your chest as you breathe out and you squeeze the biceps.

  5. 05

    After a second squeeze at the top of the movement, slowly return to the starting position.

  6. 06

    Repeat for the recommended amount of repetitions.

In the app

Lying Cable 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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