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Lying high cable curl

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Target your brachialis with the lying high cable curl, an isolation and pulling exercise. Your biceps brachii and brachioradialis act as synergists.

Assisted inverse leg curl with lat pull-down machine exercise

Assisted inverse leg curl on lat pull-down machine

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Activating your knee flexors, especially your hamstrings, the assisted inverse leg curl with lat pull-down machine can be dangerous.

Cable reverse wrist curl

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Use the cable reverse wrist curl to overload your wrist extensors and build your forearms. However, for wrist safety, avoid going very heavy.

Lying cable skull crusher

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Target your triceps brachii with the lying cable skull crusher, an isolation exercise. Keep your elbows in to avoid chest and shoulder recruitment.

Standing cable row

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Compared with the seated cable row, the standing cable row stimulates the recruitment of many more stabilizer muscles in your legs and core.

Inverse leg curl on lat pull-down machine

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If you don't have access to a leg curl machine, try the inverse leg curl on lat pull-down machine, an isolated pull exercise that targets your hamstrings.

Cable down-up twist

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Use the cable down-up twist, an isolation exercise, to strengthen and stabilize your core, and to strengthen the twisting movement pattern of your torso.

Seated cable twist

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Use the seated cable twist, an isolation exercise, to strengthen and stabilize your core, and to strengthen the twisting movement pattern of your torso.