I’ve only come accross one post which may be related to what I am about to post…so anyone with some genuine help, please reply!
I have a pain in my left elbow, yes it is from doing Skull Crushers on a incline/decline.
My question for advice is have you ever experienced the same problem? if so how did you overcome it? and what kind of thing have you done to Triceps since to give them enough stimulation?
Yes, I get the same thing. My solution? Don’t do skulls.
I use weighted dips as my primary tricep worker, usually followed up by pressdowns and or overhead dumbell extensions.
Skull crushers (usually with a barbell or EZ bar) tend to put a lot of stress on the elbows causing pain and tendonitis. The best thing you can do is to stop doing them! Or only use lighter weights.
I’ve found other exercises to replace skull crushers and no longer have to deal with the pain. I will do flat and decline triceps extensions with dumbbells with no pain. And of course, you have close-grip benches, dips, pin pushes, board presses and various triceps pressdown movements (straight bar, angled bar, rope, etc.).
I just recently fully recovered from the same thing. My problem may be worse than yours since it has taken me about 8 weeks to recover. My solution is that I no longer do any lying extension/skull crusher sort of movements. Dips, cg bench presses, etc anything to avoid putting the immense strain on the tendon that you get with skullcrushers.
Just remember this-Skull Crushers should be named Elbow Crushers. Any type of tricep extension exercise like Crushers cause elbow pain and tendonitis very commonly.
[quote]wings_931 wrote:
I’ve only come accross one post which may be related to what I am about to post…so anyone with some genuine help, please reply!
I have a pain in my left elbow, yes it is from doing Skull Crushers on a incline/decline.
My question for advice is have you ever experienced the same problem? if so how did you overcome it? and what kind of thing have you done to Triceps since to give them enough stimulation?[/quote]
I’m recuperating from what sounds like the same problem. Is it a pain leading to that little boney bump along the inside of the elbow? Did some internet research and I’m pretty sure it’s the same thing that they call baseball or golfer’s elbow.
Also try warming up with band press downs.
Thanks people for the positive feedback…
Seems like everyone is saying pretty much the same thing - stay away from Skull Crushers! (who named them that anyway?)
I thinki’m gona try out some other movements to avoid the pain and see what happens.
Thanks again, much appreciated.