HOW TO PERFORM THE SKULL CRUSHERS CORRECTLY

there are a very few people who know how to perform the skull crushers with perfect form and hit the triceps correctly.

when you lay down on the bench, don't hold the arms straight up, but incline them slightly in diagonal toward your head. arms are still straight, no bending in elbows. in this way you not only hit the triceps better, but you also remove the weight from the shoulder joints and the rotatory cuff. if you have elbows issues, lowering the weights just past your forehead will solve your problem. performing the exercise in this way is also much much safer since you prevent the weights from hitting your head (they are called skull crushers for a reason).

a few more recommendations:

-don't do them with the straight bar

-don't do them with the EZ bar

-go with the neutral grip, palms facing each other

-go with high reps (8-12)

-keep the elbows toward inside and parallel to the body

the skull crushers are the only exercise to stimulate all the three muscles of the triceps: the lateral head, the long head and the medial head. all the other tricep exercises behind head stimulate only the long head. that's due to the position of the hands.

if you want to stimulate the medium head, turn the thumbs inward.

if you want to stimulate the lateral head, turn the thumbs to the outside.

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