Arms · Cable
Cable Reverse Wrist Curl
How to do the cable reverse wrist curl, the muscles it works, and the mistakes to avoid. Pulled straight from the Kovo app's exercise library.
- Equipment
- Cable
- Difficulty
- Beginner
- Logged as
- Weighted reps
- Movement
- Extension
- Mechanic
- Isolation
How to do it
Set a low cable pulley with a straight bar and grip it with palms facing down, resting your forearms on your thighs or a bench with wrists past the edge. Keeping your forearms still, extend your wrists to raise the back of your hands, then lower under control.
- 1Forearm extensors on the top of your forearm contracting
- 2Forearms staying fixed while only the wrists move
- 3A controlled stretch as the bar lowers
Common mistakes
- Lifting your forearms off the support to assist
- Using momentum to fling the wrists up
- Going so heavy your wrists collapse forward
Muscles worked
The cable reverse wrist curl mainly works the forearms.
- ForearmsPrimary
- BicepsMinor
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- How to do the forearm extensor stretch
- How to do the forearm flexor stretch
- How to do the medicine ball hussafel carry
Last reviewed June 2026.