{"id":13556,"date":"2019-11-28T06:35:12","date_gmt":"2019-11-28T06:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newlife.com.cy\/?p=13556"},"modified":"2019-11-28T08:40:51","modified_gmt":"2019-11-28T08:40:51","slug":"dumbbell-reverse-curl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newlife.com.cy\/en\/dumbbell-reverse-curl\/","title":{"rendered":"Dumbbell reverse curl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<h2>Exercise details<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Target muscle:<\/strong> Brachioradialis<\/li>\n<li><strong>Synergists:<\/strong> Biceps Brachii, Brachialis<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mechanics:<\/strong> Isolation<\/li>\n<li><strong>Force:<\/strong> Pull<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Starting position<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Stand with a dumbbell in each hand.<\/li>\n<li>Pronate your wrists into a shoulder-width reverse (overhand) grip.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2>Execution<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Keeping your elbows by your sides, exhale as you curl the dumbbells toward your shoulders until your forearms are nearly vertical.<\/li>\n<li>Hold for a count of two and squeeze your biceps.<\/li>\n<li>Inhale as you return the dumbbells to the starting position.<\/li>\n<li>Repeat.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2>Comments and tips<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Keep your body still and your upper arms by your sides.<\/li>\n<li>Keep your wrists straight.<\/li>\n<li>Maintain a shoulder-width reverse grip.<\/li>\n<li>Instead of curling both arms at the same time, you can, of course, alternate your arms.<\/li>\n<li>Using the reverse grip puts your biceps brachii into a mechanically disadvantaged position, which forces your other forearm flexors (i.e. your brachialis and brachioradialis, especially the latter) to work harder.<\/li>\n<li>See also the EZ bar reverse curl.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exercise details Target muscle: Brachioradialis Synergists: Biceps Brachii, Brachialis Mechanics: Isolation Force: Pull Starting position Stand with a dumbbell in each hand. Pronate your wrists into a shoulder-width reverse (overhand) grip. Execution Keeping your elbows by your sides, exhale as you curl the dumbbells toward your shoulders until your forearms are nearly vertical. Hold for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[731,745,759],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-askisiologio","category-askiseis-antivrachionion","category-proponisi-dynamis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newlife.com.cy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newlife.com.cy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newlife.com.cy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newlife.com.cy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newlife.com.cy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newlife.com.cy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13558,"href":"https:\/\/newlife.com.cy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13556\/revisions\/13558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newlife.com.cy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newlife.com.cy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newlife.com.cy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newlife.com.cy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}