Elbow pain doing skullcrushers

[Madd Hatter]

Just when I thought my lower back or my knee was gonna end my weight training and/or land me in surgery, my right elbow comes out of left field!

Today during pretty much all my reps of skull crushers, I was having some pretty bad pain in my elbow when it was bent and attempting to straighten it out. Pretty acute, very uncomfortable. I've gotten a couple times (not too bad) in the past (used to get it when I did tricep extension machine before I got serious too), and my weight today was not considerably more than in the past. I'm a little worried about it. I guess I don't know what I'm looking for here. Is there a replacement exercise I could do for my triceps (I'm doing the WBB routine) to complement the narrow bench, dumbell press, military press, lateral raises, and curls I'm doing on arm day? Anyone go through the same pain?

 

[gettinlarger]

do them on an incline. like, the same incline as a standard incline bench press. its like ... 30 degrees or something. but this puts less strain on the elbows. might wanna grab a spotter though with the heavy stuff.

 

[Heavy Weight Champ]

I had pain from crushers, i just droped the weight untill it nolonger hurt and worked my way back up.

Do you have pain even after the workout? If you do, i recommend seeing a specialist.

 

[Haz]

I had pain in my elbows from skull crusher too. You can try leaving them for the end of your workout when they are properly warmed up. This helps reduce the pain. Also, they'll be pre-exhausted so you won't do as much weight, which helps too.

However, I had to stop doing them altogether cause I injured my wrists. After two months when my wrists were fully healed, I started doing them again, and the pain is totally gone. So you might just want to other exercises until they fix themselves.

 

[The Architect]

I would say make sure your tri's are warmed up first, like doing some pulldowns. Go with a lighter weight at first then work your way up slowly. If the problem persists give that exercise a break and do some weighted dips.

 

[needsize]

The key is definitely a good warm-up, what I also do when an exercise starts to cause pain, is move to to later in the workout, so that you're not using as much weight, and start off with something else that doesn't put the same stress on your elbow.

Also, are you using chrondroitin, msn, and glucosamine, if not, find a supplement that has them in it, they're all really important for joint health.

 

[mishon1]

needsize is right u should probably concentrate on warming up a little better. that is probably where the problems is.

 

[Super Halo Man]

I have no problem with elbow pain in skullcrushers. Maybe a wider grip?

 

[GRIMMER]

Skull crushers esspecially Db are notorious for causing wlbow pain. Switch exercises to something like a Jm press or tate press and give them a rest for a while. If your looking for lockout strenght try the 4 board press as well they are great for tris and rarley hurt.

 

[MidwestJ]

skull crushers

Yeah I too get that pain once in a while but I figured out how to alleviate it.

I do a few sets of close grip bench before I do the crushers and sometimes even some pulldowns with a rope on a weight stack. Then...just start real light on the crushers. Go real easy for like 3 -4 warm up sets. That's a MUST for me as my liftin partner can go a bit heavier than me. Just go real slow on them and warm up good and you shouldn't have too many problems. Good luck