This exercise focuses on
the wrist flexor muscles.
Wrist curls are isolation exercises for the forearms, specifically targeting
the wrist flexor muscles.
Your forearms are a complex group of muscles composed of wrist extensors,
wrist flexors and the brachioradialis muscles, that rarely gets the attention it deserves.
This exercise focuses on the rhomboids, traps, lower lats,
wrist flexors, brachialis and brachioradialis.
Adding exercises such as the wrist curl to your training routine can help you prevent both minor and severe upper body injuries by strengthening
your wrist flexors and thereby enabling the wrists to withstand the stress they get placed under in most compound movements.
Elbow and arm stretching exercises are usually most important when rehabilitating an elbow or wrist injury and include
wrist flexors, wrist extensors, tennis elbow stretch and triceps muscle.
In order to fully engage and work
the wrist flexors, incorporate exercises such as barbell wrist curls, cable wrist curls, and dumbells wrist curls into your routine.
Unlike
the wrist flexors, this one has only one head which is the brachioradialis itself.
By doing both types of wrist curls, you'll strengthen both
your wrist flexors and extensors for a balanced wrist workout.
If we look at medial epicondylitis, it is an issue with
the wrist flexors (wrist curling) and some people call it «golfer's elbow».
Hanging exercises involve what is called straight arm strength and this type of body weight strength can significantly improve your grip strength,
your wrist flexors, your forearm strength and of course your shoulder strength.
By building greater strength in your hand and
wrist flexors & extensors or otherwise referred to as grip and forearm strength then you are concentrating on your bodies core strength even though most people do not often think of forearm strength as core strength.
Not exact matches
The forearm is made up of 20 different muscles, of which the
flexors and the extensors are of key importance since they regulate the movement of the
wrist, fingers and thumb.
The
flexors are also responsible for the rotation of the
wrist (the ability to turn your palm face up and face down.)
On the top side, the
flexor muscles work to flex (contract) your
wrist upwards, while the extensor muscles extend your muscles back to move your
wrist into a straight position.
The 2 forms of
wrist curls with blast your extensors /
flexors and the hammer curls will really work that brachioradialis for added size.
If you flex your
wrist more, then you shift the emphasis more to the
wrist and forearm
flexors, and also more on the fingers and less toward the thumbs.
These tendons are part of the forearm /
wrist / finger
flexor muscle group.
This involves nothing more than hand flexion — closing your hand around an object and squeezing — but it's great for building strong forearm
flexors,
wrists, hands, and fingers.
As you can guess, the
flexors are used for flexion at the
wrist and fingers and extensors for extension.
The
flexors allow your
wrist to bend inward.
Jumping Jacks, 20 reps Seal Jumps with Leg Switches, 20 reps Full Body Circles, 5 each way Arm Circles, 10 reps each arm, forward and back Elbows Circles, 10 each arm, forward and back
Wrist Circles, 10 reps Shoulder Twists, 5 reps each way Bodyweight Squats, 8 reps Squat to Stand, 8 reps Push - up Plus (Level 1), 8 reps Push - up Plus (Level 2), 8 reps Push - up Plus (Level 3), 8 reps Push - up Plus (Level 4), 5 reps each arm Cobra, 5 reps Striders, 5 reps each leg Striders with Rotation, 3 reps each side Hamstring Stretch / Hip
Flexor Stretch, 3 reps each side Band Pull Aparts, 10 reps Band Dislocates, 5 reps Backward Rolls into Hamstring Stretch, 5 reps Backward Rolls into Glute Stretch, 5 reps each arm Squat to Forward Lunges, 3 reps each leg Standing Glute Stretch, 5 reps each leg Cradle Walks, 5 reps each leg
However, drawing has always been characterised by its sense of immediacy and its physicality, emanating from the deltoid and trapezius muscles in the shoulder and back, streaming down to the
flexor digitorium muscles near the
wrist.