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
- 1
Hold a barbell with both hands and your palms facing down; hands spaced about shoulder width. This will be your starting position.
- 2
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.
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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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