How do you curl this??

[sammyg]

Hey,

    I was wondering how to curl a plate when it has a huge lip on it?? Do you just hook your thumb around the lip?? Or do you hook it with your fingers??

Bit hard to explain, but i just need to know.

Thanx

[Nathan Say]

Have the letters facing up & hook your thumb over the lip with your fingers on the other side.

[sammyg]

Oh ok thanx

[Guest]

Here is another Q on plate curling. Do you curl using the elbow/bicep or the wrist or just the fingers keeping the elbow and wrist static?  ???

[Nathan Say]

I don't think I know what you mean genetic   ???

[Tyrannosaurus Dave]

I think he means, is this a biceps curl or a wrist curl.  People do both, but the plate wrist curl is much harder IMHO.  If you are curling using the whole arm = biceps, bending at the elbow, then most people just call it a plate curl.

[Guest]

Dave you got it right.

But let me just get it straight. When people say that they do plate curls in their routine they are just doing bicep curls and substituting a dumbbell with a plate.

Please HELP! I have been doing it using only my fingers for the movement. Elbow bent but static at a 45deg angel wrist straight pinching the plate with the plate pointing up into the air. I then lower the plate with only my fingers moving and then pushing it up to the start position again using only the fingers . No wrist or elbow movement at all.

This really works the “”larger muscles”” in the hand itself. I can do 10 reps +/- 45 seconds time under load.

Does any one else do this and does it sound worthwhile doing?   ???

[Jager]

I just tried them the other day, they seem to be pretty hard.

How much weight do you guys use in a plate wrist curl?

[Nathan Say]

Before I figured out how to add weight, I could do 16 reps with a 25. I can do 4x6 with a 35 now. Hopefully by the end of the year I'll be able to do a 45, that's one of my main goals this year.