How To Skull Crushers : Full Guide To Do Skull Crushers

The Skull Crashers is one of the most famous exercise to get bigger triceps , but a lot of people find difficulty doing skull crush or they doing it the wrong way and one of people question about this exercise  :What is a skull crusher workout? , Should I do Skull Crushers? , How do you do triceps skull crushers? ,  and more questions about the skull crush , and in today article we will cover this question and more . 

What is a skull crusher workout ? :

So a skull crusher workout is a one of the oldest exercise to target the triceps muscles , and it has a lot of variation but they much similar in the position because you will be lying on a bench and your arms are perpendicular to your body and your elbows and your wrist should fixed and be opened ad the shoulders width and the main movement is that your half of your arm stay fixed while the other half your forearms should move and do the extension , and it will focus more on your long head triceps and lateral head .

  How do you do triceps skull crushers ? :  

Now let talk about the proper form to do the skull crushers because it a big problem for a lot of people , so for the start let begin from the bottom till your highest point as always your feet should always stick to the ground as for your lower back it depend on you and how you feel comfortable with when you are arching your back or doing the skull crushers with a flat back with no arching but i should say that for a beginner you will go with the light weight till you we able to perform it with a good form , and for your back i will say a bit of arching will be good for you and that just to prevent any injury .




 Now i should point to your elbows and your wrist should be opened shoulder width and also when you lowering the weight you should keep them at this width because a lot of people flared their elbows as they let the weight go down so keep in mind to lock your elbows while doing the exercise , another thing is about your arms position a lot will say that your arms should perpendicular with your body but my experience taught me to go beyond 90 degree because when you let you arm to go beyond that degree you will be putting an extra resistance for your triceps and that the point of the exercise so for your arms position they should be more than 90 degree with body and less than 100 degree.



And how you can know that it's easy just feel your body and when you feel uncomfortable for you to handle and control the weight and you feel like you are engaging other muscles like your lats to control than is too much for you you just need to get your arms backward a bit and that the  angle that your stop point and the right angle  , and i repeat when you are doing the skull crush always lock your elbows and if you find difficult to do it lower the weight to perform it with the correct way . 

Should I do Skull Crushers? and  What do Skull Crushers target?

Well no one can answer this question but only you can because there isn't such a thing one best exercise for triceps or biceps but you should perform more than one exercise to get a good result and talking about the skull crushers it depend on you if you find it comfortable with you and easy to do because people are different in their body and every one is unique so who work best for you doesn't mean will work best for an other guy  , so to know the answer add the skull crushers to your triceps routine and give it the time to see result about 3 weeks , and for the question of what do skull crushers target if you been reading this article you know that will target your triceps your long head and lateral head .

Skull Crushers Variation :

You can perform the skull crushers with dumbbells or kettlebells or on a straight bar  or E-Z bar and in a different angle on a  flat bench or incline bench or even decline bench also you can do the skull crushers with cables or with rope so you have a plenty of varieties in this exercises . 

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I should point that there is a variation called 45 degree where you will letting your hand more than 90 degree with the bench and it's just the same one i already mentioned earlier in the article ,that will put an extra resistance on your triceps.

Skull Crushers Benefits :

In this part we will cover some of the benefits of doing skullCrushers 

Stronger triceps

Strong triceps means bigger lifts in the pressing exercise like bench press and having a stronger triceps is a very important factor in the heavy lift beside that we don't forget it roll in the powerlifting movements like snatch and clean and jerk  , stronger triceps tend to assist decrease wear and tear on the elbow joint.

Healthy Elbows

Healthy joints and that by having the muscle connection needed to let your muscle do the work instead on putting that much stress on your joints .  Stronger triceps (along with correct modifications just in case of elbow flare-ups) are key to not solely increasing pressing performance however minimizing overuse injury to the joints and connective tissues.

Bigger Arms

why is that ? simply because the triceps is covering ⅔ of the arm that means by having a bigger triceps you will have a big and lean good locking arm and that a thing that a majority of people don't know , they think that the key of having bigger biceps but the truth is the bigger your triceps are the bigger your arms will be  . 

   

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