EZ-Bar Skullcrusher

Triceps · Barbell

How to do it

Lying with an EZ bar or dumbbells, arms vertical or angled slightly back. Lower **bending only the elbow** to your forehead or a bit behind your head, then extend without slamming the lockout. Angling the elbows back puts the long head of the triceps in a stretch, and that is the head that grows most. You feel the back of the arm. The classic mistake is moving the shoulder and turning it into a press.

Variants

The drawing shows one way of doing it, and the technique above describes that one. Almost every exercise has variants — standing or seated, the grip, the bench angle — and is still the same exercise: if you do it another way, write it in the exercise note and you will have it every time you train it.

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