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  2. Wrist curl - Wikipedia

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    The wrist curl is a weight training exercise for developing the wrist flexor muscles, the muscles in the front of the forearm. [1] It is therefore an isolation exercise. Ideally, it should be done in combination with the "reverse wrist curl" (also called wrist extension) which works out the muscles comprising the back of the forearms, [1] to ensure equal development of the wrist flexor and ...

  3. A Bodybuilding Coach Reveals the Secrets to Grip Strength - AOL

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    Teo finishes the session with wrist rollers, attaching a light weight to the pole using a band, and then rotating the bar upwards in his hands until the band is completely wrapped around it, then ...

  4. How to Do Reverse Curls to Build Forearms Like Popeye - AOL

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    Wrist positioning is important when doing reverse curls. Instead of extending your wrists up to start the movement, focus on keeping tension in your wrists to keep a strong, straight position ...

  5. Grip strength - Wikipedia

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    As finger flexor/extensors serve a function as wrist flexor/extensors, doing wrist extension exercises (sometimes called "reverse wrist curls") would also stimulate the finger extensor fibers. Doing fist pushups on the backside of the first finger bone would increasingly put pressure on the extensor muscles as weight was shifted from knuckle ...

  6. Extensor carpi radialis brevis muscle - Wikipedia

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    It is an extensor, and an abductor of the hand at the wrist joint. That is, it serves to manipulate the wrist so that the fingers moves away from the palm. The muscle, like all extensors of the forearm, can be strengthened by exercise that resist its extension; Reverse wrist curls with dumbbells can be performed.

  7. List of weight training exercises - Wikipedia

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    Leg curl machine. The leg curl is performed while lying face down on a bench, by raising a weight with the feet towards the buttocks. This is an isolation exercise for the hamstrings. [5] Equipment Dumbbell, cable machine or leg curl machine. Major variants Seated (using a leg curl machine variant); standing (one leg at a time).

  8. Arm wrestling - Wikipedia

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    The press (or "flop wrist press"; "triceps press") is an outside style which involves a competitor getting their body behind their arm to use their shoulder, chest, and triceps to press their opponent's hand and arm to the pin pad. Effective pressing requires proper alignment with the hips and non-competing leg positioned to avoid blocking the pin.

  9. Flexor carpi radialis muscle - Wikipedia

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    The tendon of the flexor carpi radialis is visible on the anterior surface of the forearm, just proximal to the wrist, when the wrist is flexed. It is the tendon seen most lateral, closest to the thumb.