Let the dumbbells hang at arm s length with your palms facing.
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Slowly curl the bar up to the top and bring it a few inches from.
Hammer curls target the long head of the biceps as well as the brachialis and the brachioradialis one of the forearm muscles.
Hold a dumbbell in each hand with a neutral or hammer grip while standing with feet hip width apart.
You can opt for free weight barbell biceps exercises such as ez bar curls reverse grip barbell curls or you can opt for machine cable exercises like cable preacher curls cable rope hammer curls and standing cable curls.
Then lower the dumbbell and curl the other one.
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Repeat your set by alternating arms for the desired number of reps.
A shoulder width grip may be the most comfortable for most people and it s the best for working the long outer head of the biceps.
How to do it using a regular preacher bench grab an ez curl bar with both hands using an underhand grip palms facing upwards.
However if you really want to focus your short inner biceps head take a wider grip.
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Either way keep these curls strict.
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Grab a pair of dumbbells and lie with your chest against a bench that s set to a 70 degree incline.
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Keep your arms against your sides and curl one dumbbell while keeping your wrist neutral and straight.
This movement also engages stabilizer muscles including the anterior deltoid the upper and middle trapezius the extensor carpi radialis and others.
Hammer curls increase the bicep size and length.