Wrist Rotations with Straight Bar
How to do the Wrist Rotations with Straight Bar 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 Wrist Rotations with Straight Bar
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Hold a barbell with both hands and your palms facing down; hands spaced about shoulder width. This will be your starting position.
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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.
- 3
Reverse the motion by flexing the wrist, rolling the opposite direction. Continue the alternating motion until failure.
Log it, see it on your body.
Every Wrist Rotations with Straight Bar 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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