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Preacher Curls are great for isolating biceps and concentrating on them. It is called a ‘preacher’ curl since the slant board resembles a preacher podium. Instead of standing in-front giving a sermon, you will be sitting behind it and curling your arms with weights on it to focus on your biceps.

As always, it is better to see in a workout video how it is done. A video speaks a “trillion” words! Bodybuilder Frank Sepe demonstrates below how to properly do Preacher Curls.

Proper Way of Execution:

1. Sit with your upper arms resting on the preacher bench, and take a shoulder-width underhand grip on the bar with arms out straight.

2. Curl the bar up toward your shoulders.

3. Lower the weight back down to the arms’ extended position.

Today I would like to focus on how to do the Bicep Curl properly. I sometimes see guys in the gym doing it wrongly, and me too, I’m guilty of not exercising in proper form sometimes.

It is always helpful to see someone doing it properly, rather than reading it from a procedure.

So I put in here a workout video of Frank Sepe, demonstrating the bicep curls.

Proper Execution:

1. Hold a pair of dumbbells at arms’ length by your sides, thumbs pointing forward.
2. One arm at a time, curl the dumbbell up toward your shoulder, rotating your hand so palm faces upward.
3. Lower the dumbbell back down, and repeat the opposite arm.

Tips on doing Bicep Curls:

• Keep your elbows close to your body, use your biceps to curl the dumbbell slowly up to your chin
• Don’t sway back your back or rock your body for momentum, this will not train your bicep properly, but your back is also giving it some help.
• Hold for a second at the end of the lift, then lower the dumbbell slowly with a controlled motion to starting position. Do not swing the weight.

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Keep on exercising, enjoy!