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Band Skull Crusher

TricepsBandsBeginnerIsolation
Band Skull Crusher — start position
Start
Band Skull Crusher — finish position
Finish
Muscles worked
PrimaryTriceps

How to do it

  1. 01

    Secure a band to the base of a rack or the bench. Lay on the bench so that the band is lined up with your head.

  2. 02

    Take hold of the band, raising your elbows so that the upper arm is perpendicular to the floor. With the elbow flexed, the band should be above your head. This will be your starting position.

  3. 03

    Extend through the elbow to straighten your arm, keeping your upper arm in place. Pause at the top of the motion, and return to the starting position.

In the app

Band Skull Crusher appears when you own bands and the day's window has room for it. Loads come from Rule 3 (Loads rise when earned, read from RPE, graded strong) and climb on the reps you actually did.

If a machine is taken the engine swaps a same-pattern movement and says why.

If you don't have bands

Same movement pattern, same primary muscles — swap by what you have.

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