Arms · Bodyweight
Neutral Wrist Roller
How to do the neutral wrist roller, the muscles it works, and the mistakes to avoid. Pulled straight from the Kovo app's exercise library.
- Equipment
- Bodyweight
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
- Logged as
- Weighted reps
- Movement
- Flexion
- Mechanic
- Isolation
How to do it
Hold a wrist roller bar in front of you with both hands, arms extended at shoulder height and a weight hanging from the cord. Keeping your thumbs up in a neutral grip, roll the bar to wind the cord and lift the weight up to the bar. Once it reaches the top, slowly reverse the rolling to lower it back down under control.
- 1Feel your forearms burn as you wind the cord
- 2Keep your arms steady and let only your wrists do the rolling
- 3Control the lowering just as hard as the lifting
Common mistakes
- Do not drop your arms as they fatigue; hold them up
- Avoid swinging the weight to gain momentum
- Do not let the weight free fall on the way down
Muscles worked
The neutral wrist roller mainly works the forearms, with the front delts assisting.
- ForearmsPrimary
- Front DeltsSupport
- Upper TrapsMinor
- Side DeltsMinor
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More forearms exercises
- How to do the wrist curl
- How to do the conans wheel
- How to do the farmers walk
- 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.