The Zottman curl flips your grip halfway through: palms up as you lift, palms down as you lower. This creates extra tension on your biceps and forearms, especially if you pull your wrist back on the way up. Fully straighten your arm at the bottom of each rep to get the most from it.
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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 do is just keep that retracted as you do it, turn and lower it. So you can see the bicep brachialis, the tension that that creates. 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. 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.