Floor Dumbbell Skull Crushers

Just remember to concentrate on your grip you don t want to drop the weights and literally crush your skull.

Floor dumbbell skull crushers.

Laying flat on your back bring the dumb bells up over chest. Do 10 to 12 floor skull crushers followed by 6 traditional bar to forehead skull crushers. You re also able to perform these with different grips which affects how the triceps are recruited. Rest for one minute then repeat for four sets.

Lying skull crusher form. Skull crushers aka lying triceps extensions are a move traditionally performed lying down on a bench or exercise mat with a pair of dumbbells or an ez curl bar just one of many barbells at the gym you hold the weight over your face hence the name skull crusher with elbows pointing up then use your triceps the muscles on the back of your upper arm to straighten your elbow and pull. To perform the standard version grab a pair of dumbbells and lie face up on a bench with your feet flat on the floor. Dumbbell skull crushers are typically performed with a weight in each hand although you can also hold one dumbbell in two hands.

Let your elbow act as a hinge and bring the weights down past the ear lobe. You may not have access to a bench but the floor press takes care of chest training. With dumbbells each arm has to work independently. You ll sacrifice the amount of weight you can use because dumbbells are harder to control but that s not necessarily a bad thing.

Then rep out on close grip floor bench presses.