Floor Skull Crushers
Floor Skull Crushers is a bilateral upper body exercise training the shoulder and elbow across the sagittal plane, using Dumbbell.
- Laterality
- Bilateral
- Planes
- Sagittal
- Equipment
- Dumbbell
- Primary joints
- Shoulder · Elbow
Demo video
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How to perform it
- 1Lie on your back on the floor, knees bent, holding a dumbbell in each hand pressed straight up over your chest.
- 2Keeping your upper arms still, bend your elbows to lower the dumbbells back toward the floor beside your head.
- 3Let the dumbbells lightly touch the floor and pause.
- 4Straighten your elbows to press back to the start — only your forearms move, no bouncing.
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Training profile
Fascial lines
Plane of motion
Training intent
MobilityRehab
Motor Control
Stability
Strength
Power
Tissue LoadingPerformance
Highlighted rungs are where this movement lives on the rehab → performance continuum.
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