How do you perform this exercise?
- Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart and hold a dumbbell in each hand, palms facing forward.
- Extend one leg behind you, balancing on the toes of that foot.
- Keeping your upper arms stationary, exhale and curl the weights while contracting your biceps.
- Continue to raise the weights until your biceps are fully contracted and the dumbbells are at shoulder level.
- Hold the contracted position for a brief pause as you squeeze your biceps.
- Inhale and slowly begin to lower the dumbbells back to the starting position.
- Repeat for the desired number of repetitions, then switch legs and repeat.
Which other muscles are involved?
Forearms.
How do you log your sets?
How do you track progressive overload?Source: ExerciseDB catalogue and demonstration. Related movements are options to compare, not equivalent loads or a prescribed progression.
