**slfmade's 20 week lean bulk/cutting log**

[Sgt. Hartman]

Yep, you were following it wrong. LOL I was saying that I'm not really feeling the muscle contractions with the skull crushers like I do with push downs. I'm going heavy but I feel it in my forearms more than I do in my triceps, plus it almost feels like it's pinching my ulnar nerve (funny bone) when I come down to my forehead. Kinda weird I know!

No worries though. Tbody said in his other post he believes skull crushers to be one of the best mass builders for triceps. So even though I'm not feeling it very much, I'm gonna stick with and see where it goes.

My opinion, take it for what it's worth. The reason you're not feeling much for triceps is because you're only doing 1 exercise for them. They're not some tiny body part that can be exhausted in 1 exercise of straight sets. If we were talking about rest-pause training or some other form of HIT I could see the point, but three sets of one tricep exercise is not enough to stimulate growth IMO. And if you're performing the WO in the order that you have it posted on the first page, then your CNS is fried by the time you get to triceps and even though you're giving what you think is maximum effort, your mind-muscle connection and ability to contract the muscle to it's fullest extent is not possible.

Play around with your form though and see if that helps. If you're feeling it in your forearm, try doing it more like video 1, making sure the upper part of your arms are 90 degrees to the floor with your elbows as close together as possible. But I wouldn't recommend going as far down behind the head as that guy does, looks like tendonitis waiting to happen to me.

[auslifta]

My opinion, take it for what it's worth. The reason you're not feeling much for triceps is because you're only doing 1 exercise for them. They're not some tiny body part that can be exhausted in 1 exercise of straight sets. If we were talking about rest-pause training or some other form of HIT I could see the point, but three sets of one tricep exercise is not enough to stimulate growth IMO. And if you're performing the WO in the order that you have it posted on the first page, then your CNS is fried by the time you get to triceps and even though you're giving what you think is maximum effort, your mind-muscle connection and ability to contract the muscle to it's fullest extent is not possible.

Play around with your form though and see if that helps. If you're feeling it in your forearm, try doing it more like video 1, making sure the upper part of your arms are 90 degrees to the floor with your elbows as close together as possible. But I wouldn't recommend going as far down behind the head as that guy does, looks like tendonitis waiting to happen to me.

Good post