ya cable skull crushers are awesome!! they deff hit your tri much harder IMO then free weights, cuz at the top it's still pulling away from u bs free weights at the top the pressure moves to chest and delts in the top position
Is it OK if Ive been doing skullcrushers with my hands positioned onto the outer grip? Im lifting 135x8 with the outter grips so my automatic assumption is that I should be using the inner grips
I do them with the outer grips, but i also grip them in reverse. the traditional skull crusher feel awkward to me, but doing it like that feels much better. that is just my personal opinion though.
Any movement and placement that the body has not done is usually awkward for anyone.
Inner portion of the bar definitely the way to go....but I hit somewhat of a plataeu doing skull crushers w/ a bar, and switched to doing them with cable, and the cable version is just awesome, constant tension throughout the whole movement, no "dead spots", and I also occassionally do them with a reverse grip.
It is hard to isolate the different heads of the tricep, but as a general rule: Any tricep expercise with a regulat straight bar grip primarily works the inner and long heads of the triceps. The wider the grip, the inner head gets more of the focus. You primarily work the lateral head when the palms are facing the midline of the body (palms facing each other).outter grip will hit more anterior delt and lateral head of tricep. I do em sometimes. Inner as said will isolate all the 3 heads of triceps much more. Try em on lower cable with bench as well. Burn.