What is the main difference between these two? I've tried looking up some videos, but they seem to be the same thing, with exception of one video where a guy only lowers the bar down to his forehead for skull crusher demo? Thanks.
bent arms (motion mainly from the elbow) vs straight arms (motion from the shoulders) as far as I can see. looks like the variation in Skull Crushers is a bit of a red herring, I've also seen SCs with starting position above the forehead, to middle point behind head and return, so cutting out any rest position. I need to work on triceps so got to teach myself this one next
Skull crushers are a tri exercise that pivot at the elbow. Pull overs are a lat and chest movement that pivot at the shoulder with almost straight arms. Pull overs are a great mass building movement that really helps add width and thickness tho your upper back and shoulders.
http://www.bodybuilding.com/exercises/detail/view/name/straight-arm-dumbbell-pullover It lists it as a chest exersice here but myself and everyone I know feels it in the lats and delts more than anything.
I just wanna thank JaxMMA cuz I've decided to just vary my routine as much as I can w/out forgetting things. I totally forgot about pullovers and I'm going to definitely add them into my lat routines.
I tried some Skull Crushers last night with 15kg. Keeping the elbows solid and pointing up vertically was challenging.
The best exercise I have found (an article in a mag.) is to combine the 2. With a bar, you start with the skull crusher lowering the weight to your forehead, move the weight back behind your head, move the wieght back to your forehead and then finish pushing the weight back to the start position. The workout from the mag. said to do these sets: #1 - 30 reps #2 - 12 reps #3 - 10 reps #4 - 8 reps #5 - 6 reps #6 - 30 reps This really increased my strength.
