One Arm Dumbbell Preacher Curl

BicepsDumbbellBeginnerIsolation
One Arm Dumbbell Preacher Curl — start position
Start
One Arm Dumbbell Preacher Curl — finish position
Finish
Muscles worked
PrimaryBiceps

How to do it

  1. 01

    Grab a dumbbell with the right arm and place the upper arm on top of the preacher bench or the incline bench. The dumbbell should be held at shoulder length. This will be your starting position.

  2. 02

    As you breathe in, slowly lower the dumbbell until your upper arm is extended and the biceps is fully stretched.

  3. 03

    As you exhale, use the biceps to curl the weight up until your biceps is fully contracted and the dumbbell is at shoulder height. Again, remember that to ensure full contraction you need to bring that small finger higher than the thumb.

  4. 04

    Squeeze the biceps hard for a second at the contracted position and repeat for the recommended amount of repetitions.

  5. 05

    Switch arms and repeat the movement.

In the app

One Arm Dumbbell Preacher Curl appears when you own dumbbells 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 dumbbells

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

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