Pain during skull crushers....

[Uthinkso]

So I was doing my second set of skull crushers yesterday and felt an odd pain in my left shoulder. I stopped immediately, and took a 2-3 minute rest then went back and tried one more. Sure enough as soon as I get to the 90 degree position it feels like somebody is pulling my left shoulder away from my body. Mind you I tore this rotator cuff six years ago. I was using an EZ curl bar with a 25lb plate on each side. So maybe 65lb at the most, not a lot of weight even by my standards.

Ideas??

 

[P-funk]

stop doing skull crushers.


does your shoulder hurt during other movements?

 

[Uthinkso]

stop doing skull crushers.


does your shoulder hurt during other movements?

It hurts when I do dumbell flys laying on a flat bench. Other than that its been perfect. I avoid DB flys for that reason, and only work the skull crushers in here and there. I'll take them off the list and its business as usual.

 

[danzik17]

Just dump them if they don't work for you - I can't do skull crushers either.

For some reason my left arm just doesn't agree with the movement - last time I did them even with light weight my elbow gave out and wouldn't support almost any weight for weeks.

There's plenty of exercises to replace it if you don't like it.