Exercise library / Arms
Skull crushers
Arms · Barbell
Sets, reps and RIR
Sets3 to 4
Reps10 to 15
RIR0 to 2
Single-joint work responds to reps and time under tension more than to heavy load.
RIR means reps in reserve: how many you could still have done when you racked it. RIR 2 is two short of failure.
Muscles worked
Primary: Triceps.
Estimate your one-rep max
Epley's formula, from a set you have actually done. It is an estimate, and it drifts above eight reps, so keep the input between one and twelve.
Enter a set to see the estimate.
What it is called elsewhere
- Norwegian Skull crushers
- Swedish Skull crushers
- Danish Skull crushers
- German Stirndrücken
- Spanish Press francés tumbado
- Italian Skull crusher
- Portuguese Tríceps testa (barra)
- Russian Французский жим лёжа
- French Barre au front
Related arms exercises
- Biceps curl
- Hammer curl
- Concentration curl
- Incline dumbbell curl
- Overhead triceps extension
- Triceps kickbacks
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