Smith Machine Skull Crusher
Position a flat bench under the Smith bar. Lie back with your head near one end of the bench and grip the bar slightly narrower than shoulder width. Unrack and bring the bar over your forehead with arms extended. Bend the elbows to lower the bar toward your forehead or just past it, keeping the upper arms vertical. Extend the elbows to press the bar back up along the fixed path.
TRICEPS · PUSH
How it is executed
- Position a flat bench under the Smith bar.
- Lie back with your head near one end of the bench and grip the bar slightly narrower than shoulder width.
- Unrack and bring the bar over your forehead with arms extended.
- Bend the elbows to lower the bar toward your forehead or just past it, keeping the upper arms vertical.
- Extend the elbows to press the bar back up along the fixed path.
- Muscles worked
- Triceps
- Primary muscle
- Triceps
- Equipment
- Smith machineBench
- Movement pattern
- Push
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
- What it is for
- StrengthHypertrophy
Variations and substitutions
Glossary and calculators
Compound exerciseA compound exercise moves more than one joint and loads several muscles at once — the squat, the deadlift, the bench press, the row.Warm-up setsWarm-up sets are the sets before the real work, with rising load and falling reps, that prepare the pattern and the nervous system for the target load.VO2 max calculator (Cooper test)What your VO2 max is
