Exercise cues/tips:

• Setup with an EZ bar holding the wider grip

• Keeping the elbows soft throughout, curl the bar up by bending the elbows and then control the eccentric phase down

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Muscle groups targeted:

• Biceps

 

Exercise progression:

• Preacher EZ bar curl

 

Exercise regression:

• Straight bar bicep curl

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❗Marcolin et al. (2018) found the EZ bar curl to elicit the greatest EMG activity of biceps brachii and brachioradialis while performing different variants of bicep curls.

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