Eccentryx / Exercise Atlas / arms
Reverse wrist curl
Forearms on bench, palms down; extend wrist up against gravity through full ROM.
Muscles
- Primary
- forearm extensors
- Supporting
- None listed
Mechanics
- Pattern
- joint control
- Equipment
- barbell, dumbbell
- Geometry
- Variable Range
- Energy model
- Glycolytic Pathway (10-90s)
- Target feel
- Extensor burn on the back of the forearm — opposite side from wrist curl.
- Progression
- Higher reps (15-25) with light weight; add load when strength baseline builds.
- Regression
- Band wrist extension if DB too heavy for any reps.
Watch for
- Too heavy — extensors are weaker than flexors, start light
- Lifting forearms off bench — isolate the wrist joint only
- Skipping full ROM at top extension
Substitutions
- Wrist curl
- Reverse curl
- Band wrist extension