Cable Preacher Curl

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General info

Force type

Exercise type

Mechanics type

Level

Targeted muscles

Biceps (look at the image)

Accessory muscles

Forearm

How to perform exercise

Place a preacher bench about 2 feet in front of a pulley machine.
Attach a straight bar to the low pulley.
Sit at the preacher bench with your elbow and upper arms firmly on top of the bench pad and have someone hand you the bar from the low pulley.
Grab the bar and fully extend your arms on top of the preacher bench pad. This will be your starting position.
Now start pilling the weight up towards your shoulders and squeeze the biceps hard at the top of the movement. Exhale as you perform this motion. Also, hold for a second at the top.
Now slowly lower the weight to the starting position.
Repeat for the recommended amount of repetitions.

Variations: You can also use an e-z bar attachment or even a single hand bar so that you can do one arm at a time. This exercise can also be

What muscles work?

If the correct technique is followed, the following muscle groups work: Biceps, and auxiliary muscles: Forearm

Weight and number of repetitions

The number of repetitions and working weight depends on your goal and other parameters. But the general recommendations can be presented in the form of a table:

Goal	Sets	Reps	Weight, %1Rm	Rest between sets
Strength	2-6	1-5 reps	100-85%	3-7 min
Mass gain	3-6	6-12 reps	85-60%	1-4 min
Fat burning	2-4	13-25 reps	60-40%	1-2 min

In order to make the training more diverse and effective you have to change the number of repetitions and the working weight. It is important not to go beyond certain values!

Goal and number of variations		Level	Weight*	Reps*
			kg

*Specify the weight and the maximum number of repetitions that you can perform with this weight.

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