Barbell Biceps Curl

Start

Finish

How to do it

Stand with a shoulder-width underhand grip on a straight bar, elbows at your sides, and curl the bar to chest height before lowering under control to straight arms.

Muscles worked

Primary: biceps · Also works: forearms

Equipment

Barbell, Full gym

Common mistakes

• Rocking the hips forward and back to heave the bar up once the set gets hard
• Letting the elbows travel forward at the top so the bar ends up over the chin with no tension
• Bouncing out of the bottom rather than starting each rep from a dead stop

Variations

• Wide-grip barbell curl
• Barbell curl with a three-second lowering phase

Can't do this one? Swap it for

• EZ-Bar Biceps Curl
• Dumbbell Biceps Curl
• Cable Biceps Curl

Take care: ABROFIT automatically removes this movement for anyone who has flagged a elbow problem. If that's you, use one of the swaps above and speak to a physio before loading it.

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