an endorsement: decline skull crushers

[go Yankees]

I think Control may have mentioned this, otherwise, I read it in MuscleMag, which, apart from promoting MuscleTech supps, has cool pics and training articles

Anyway...do skulls on a decline bench. I did them two days ago, and I could really feel a stretch in my tris at the bottom. It feels like an easier motion than doing them on a flat bench.

Anyone else do them like that?

[Shibby]

I've never tried it. Do you keep your arm position the same?

[ROCKILLER]

I would assume you would keep your upper arm straight up still so the position would be different, arms closer to you sides. if that makes any sense

[Shibby]

So you keep your arm position the same as if you were on a flat bench, you wouldn't adjust to the level of decline?

[go Yankees]

no, you do adjust for the decline...you try to keep your upper arm perpendicular to the floor, so it's like a rope pressdown, if you were lying on a decline bench

overall, it feels like a comfortable way to do skulls, and your ROM is greatly increased...or so it feels to me

[Shibby]

I'll have to try it next arm day.

[BBAddict]

I did decline skulls yesterday as a matter of fact. I definitely felt the stretch better and really feel it today. I usually follow up skulls with close-grip benches with the same bar and I did the same with the decline--very effective, IMO.

[infiniti1982]

ive been doing them for a while and like them a lot better than flat bench ones. you can get the same stretch on flat, but you really gotta try and hold the right angle with you arms, with the decline bench its automatic because of the way your upper arm is positioned.

[twizzbeats]

I do it, it works great

[Ashop]

Like them myself.

[go Yankees]

I followed it with 1-arm rope extensions...killer...

[meat12]

i'll have to try those

[Control]

I think I mentioned those in the thread I started about my favorite isolation exercises. The way I do them is sort of hard to explain though. I start off extending the weight to a point behind my head (very difficult) untill I can't do anymore reps, then i extend straight up till I finish the set. That probably doesn't make any sense. It's easier to show somebody than to explain it...

[go Yankees]

yeah...hmm...I'm trying to picture it and I'm seeing you on an incline, not decline bench, so I guess I'll just have to take your word for it. I'm sold anyway, they feel great

[Control]

Another good exercise for the triceps is close-grip incline bench press. It gives you that meat that hangs down over your elbows.