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Wrist Rotations with Straight Bar

Wrist Rotations with Straight Bar is a beginner strength exercise using barbell. It works the forearms.

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Main muscles
forearms

How to do it

  1. Hold a barbell with both hands and your palms facing down; hands spaced about shoulder width. This will be your starting position.
  2. 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. Reverse the motion by flexing the wrist, rolling the opposite direction. Continue the alternating motion until failure.

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General information, not medical advice: start light, learn the movement before adding weight, and ask a qualified coach or doctor if you are injured or unsure. Exercise data from the Free Exercise DB (public domain).

Wrist Rotations with Straight Bar: muscles worked and how to do it | Hominin