Finger Curls
How to do the Finger Curls with correct form, the muscles it works, and where it fits a training plan you actually stick to.
Forearms
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Barbell
How to do the Finger Curls
- 1
Hold a barbell with both hands and your palms facing up; hands spaced about shoulder width.
- 2
Place your feet flat on the floor, at a distance that is slightly wider than shoulder width apart. This will be your starting position.
- 3
Lower the bar as far as possible by extending the fingers. Allowing the bar to roll down the hands, catch the bar with the final joint in the fingers.
- 4
Now curl bar up as high as possible by closing your hands while exhaling. Hold the contraction at the top.
Log it, see it on your body.
Every Finger Curls set you log feeds Ascend's anatomy heatmap — so your forearms volume is visible at a glance — and counts toward your bodyweight-strength tier.
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