How to do the Cable Preacher Curl

Steps

1. Place a preacher bench about 2 feet in front of a pulley machine.
2. Attach a straight bar to the low pulley.
3. Sit at the preacher bench with your elbow and upper arms firmly on top of the bench pad and have someone hand you the bar from the low pulley.
4. Grab the bar and fully extend your arms on top of the preacher bench pad. This will be your starting position.
5. Now start pilling the weight up towards your shoulders and squeeze the biceps hard at the top of the movement. Exhale as you perform this motion. Also, hold for a second at the top.
6. Now slowly lower the weight to the starting position.
7. Repeat for the recommended amount of repetitions.

Tracking it in OneRep

Add the cable preacher curl to a routine and your previous weight and reps sit beside every set, so the decision to add load is made by what is already on the screen rather than by memory. Exercise history and volume trends are one tap away, and logging works offline for the gyms where signal does not reach.

Because OneRep tracks food on the same timeline, a stall on this lift can be read against what you were actually eating that month — which is the difference between a programming problem and an eating one. More on that in tracking progressive overload without a spreadsheet.

Where the instructions come from

The steps above come from free-exercise-db, a public-domain exercise dataset. They are general guidance, not coaching for your body: if a movement hurts, stop and get someone qualified to look at it.