Dumbbell Standing Preacher Curl

BicepsDumbbellIntermediate
Hold a dumbbell in each hand with an underhand grip. Stand tall with your back straight, abs engaged, and feet shoulder-width apart. Rest the back of your upper arms against the back pad of a preacher curl bench, ensuring your elbows are fully extended. Keep your upper arms stationary throughout the exercise. Exhale as you curl the dumbbells upward by flexing your forearms, ensuring your palms are facing upward. Inhale as you lower the dumbbells back down to the starting position, maintaining control and tension in your biceps. Repeat for the desired number of repetitions.

How to perform the Dumbbell Standing Preacher Curl

  1. Set up. Set up in a stable, balanced starting position appropriate for the Dumbbell Standing Preacher Curl using your dumbbell.
  2. Brace and execute. Brace your core, control the descent, and move through a full pain-free range of motion while emphasizing your biceps.
  3. Reset. Reverse the movement under control and reset between repetitions, keeping your form crisp on every rep.

Coaching cues

  • Move with intent — every rep should feel deliberate, not rushed.
  • Drive force through your biceps rather than momentum.
  • Keep your breathing steady: exhale on the hard part, inhale on the reset.

Common mistakes

  • Using too much weight and losing positional control.
  • Cutting the range of motion short and missing the target muscle.
  • Letting your spine round or hyperextend instead of staying neutral.

Detailed cues, common mistakes, and demonstration video are available in the Fitly app.

Build a free routine

Stage exercises here, then sign up to save them as a real Fitly routine — synced to web and mobile.

View staged routine (0)

Related exercises

0 exercises staged Save your routine — sign up free.