Manami demonstrates the Zottman curl, which flips your grip halfway through: palms up as you lift, palms down as you lower. This hits your brachialis and forearms harder than a standard curl, building arm strength and chin-up power.
In this video, we're going to show you the correct way to do a Zottmann curl. We have Manami here. Manami, do you want to demonstrate the Zottmann curl? Now, the great thing about the Zottmann curl is you're coming up with the strong angle, so you're coming up in a supinated position, and then you're lowering, lowering the weight pronated, which then creates a lot more tension and torque on the bicep brachialis. So what I'm going to get you to do is just keep that retracted as you do it, just turn and lower it. So you can see the bicep brachialis, the tension that that creates. So come up and now turn, keep the shoulders back, keep the shoulders back, keep the shoulders back. One thing to tweak this, right? So as you come up, pull the wrist back that way. Now come up, pull the wrist back on that strong angle, turn it around, and then you can see the tension that it creates here on the bicep brachialis specifically and the forearm. And that is one of the secrets to developing arm strength and developing your arms. Is to really work that bicep brachialis, which is often a— straighten the arm completely at the end, straighten the arm completely at the end, come up, come up, come up, come up, come up. Let's do one more. For the folks watching at home, this is one of the secrets to really developing arm strength and also helping with your chin-ups. Perfect. Oh, you can do one more, you want to do one more? It's all right, do one more, do one more, right? That's right, that's right. If you've enjoyed this video, like the tips, make sure you subscribe to our channel for more.
