Alternate Hammer Curl
How to do Alternate Hammer Curl
- 1
Stand facing forward with two dumbbells in each arm and palms facing into your thighs. This is your starting position.
- 2
Keeping your elbows and upper arm fixed in space, curl the weight in your weakest arm, contracting your biceps. Curl the arm until the dumbbell reaches shoulder level.
- 3
Squeeze the bicep at the top of the movement, then slowly lower back to the starting position.
- 4
Repeat the action on the other side.
Form cues
- Variation: as you lower one arm, you can be lifting the other simultaenously.
- Perform the reps very slowly and don't use momentum to help you!.
- Keep your torso and upper arms stationary and make sure you don’t rock your body back and forth when lifting the weights.
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