Standing Biceps Cable Curl

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Standing Biceps Cable Curl — start position
Start
Standing Biceps Cable Curl — finish position
Finish
Muscles worked
PrimaryBiceps

How to do it

  1. 01

    Stand up with your torso upright while holding a cable curl bar that is attached to a low pulley. Grab the cable bar at shoulder width and keep the elbows close to the torso. The palm of your hands should be facing up (supinated grip). This will be your starting position.

  2. 02

    While holding the upper arms stationary, curl the weights while contracting the biceps as you breathe out. Only the forearms should move. Continue the movement until your biceps are fully contracted and the bar is at shoulder level. Hold the contracted position for a second as you squeeze the muscle.

  3. 03

    Slowly begin to bring the curl bar back to starting position as your breathe in.

  4. 04

    Repeat for the recommended amount of repetitions.

In the app

Standing Biceps 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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