Elbow Pain from skull crushers.

[hairygary]

Does anybody else get this? I have been doing skull crushers for about 2 weeks every other day and my elbows are really sore. Maybe my technique is bad?

[X83]

Never had that problem with skull crushers, take an ibuprofen and the pain may go away in a while.

Are you doing these on a bench with the bar passing over your head dipping low?

[bruary17]

Does anybody else get this? I have been doing skull crushers for about 2 weeks every other day and my elbows are really sore. Maybe my technique is bad?

Maybe. take some cissus, fish oil or glucosamine/chrondriten. Mine snap crackle pop for my first few sets then they're good.

[RaginCajun]

it could be tendonitis. ice it, and ibrufen. or, lay off of push exercises for a while

[pebble]

You need to strengthen the tendon. Start with exercise that put less strain (no strain) on it and progressive add in more stressful exercise as you can

Band pushdown -->cable pushdowns -->skull crushers

[SHADO]

I used to get this when i did most tricep exercises that involved lifting weight over the head ie skull crushers with the bar/dbell

I think it was tendonitis, i just stopped doing them for a while, there's alot of other tricep exercises to do

[FireGuy]

People who do skull crushers fall into two groups, those with elbow pain and those who will eventually have elbow pain.

[SHADO]

People who do skull crushers fall into two groups, those with elbow pain and those who will eventually have elbow pain.

Gotta agree there, i stopped doing them years ago and never had elbow pain again.

I think of it like the centre of mass from your elbow to where you hold the weight (hands) is too great, hence putting a massive amount of pressure on the elbows.

[Ronnie Rowland]

People who do skull crushers fall into two groups, those with elbow pain and those who will eventually have elbow pain.

Fireguy is right! I am doing only pushdowns these days as dips also hurt my elbows and make them ache. Pushdowns done right hit all 3 heads of the tris including the long head that is targeted with skull crushers.