Wrist Rotations with Straight Bar

ForearmsBarbellBeginnerIsolation
Wrist Rotations with Straight Bar — start position
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Wrist Rotations with Straight Bar — finish position
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Muscles worked
PrimaryForearms

How to do it

  1. 01

    Hold a barbell with both hands and your palms facing down; hands spaced about shoulder width. This will be your starting position.

  2. 02

    Alternating between each of your hands, perform the movement by extending the wrist as though you were rolling up a newspaper. Continue alternating back and forth until failure.

  3. 03

    Reverse the motion by flexing the wrist, rolling the opposite direction. Continue the alternating motion until failure.

In the app

Wrist Rotations with Straight Bar 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.

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