Arms · Bodyweight
Seated Forearms Stretch
How to do the seated forearms stretch, the muscles it works, and the mistakes to avoid. Pulled straight from the Kovo app's exercise library.
- Equipment
- Bodyweight
- Difficulty
- Beginner
- Logged as
- time
- Movement
- Extension
- Mechanic
- Isolation
How to do it
Sit tall and extend one arm straight in front of you at shoulder height with the palm facing down. Use your other hand to gently pull the fingers and palm back toward your body until you feel a stretch through the forearm. Hold, then flip the palm up and repeat to stretch the other side of the forearm. Switch arms.
- 1A stretch through the forearm and across the wrist
- 2Your extended elbow staying straight but not locked hard
- 3Tension easing as you breathe and hold
Common mistakes
- Yanking the hand back into a painful range
- Shrugging the working shoulder up toward your ear
- Pushing through wrist tingling or numbness
Muscles worked
The seated forearms stretch mainly works the forearms.
- ForearmsPrimary
- BicepsMinor
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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.