Wrist Rotations with Straight Bar
Wrist Rotations with Straight Bar is a isolation strength exercise using barbell that trains the forearms.
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Primary muscles: Forearms
How to do it
- Hold a barbell with both hands and your palms facing down; hands spaced about shoulder width. This will be your starting position.
- 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.
- Reverse the motion by flexing the wrist, rolling the opposite direction. Continue the alternating motion until failure.
Track it with MyoAmigo
MyoAmigo pre-fills every set of the Wrist Rotations with Straight Bar from last time, charts your estimated 1RM trend so you can see strength move without testing a true max, and flags a stall with a concrete fix. It also credits this work toward your weekly Forearms volume on the MyoMap heatmap. New to the movement? Start with picking a working weight and progressive overload.