An old instructor of mine, a man that was as big as a compact car, gave my a long speech about skull cruhsers...don't push it because once you blow out your elbows, they will never be the same. So I went light for years, then I got tired of not having big tricepes, so I bumped up the weight. So there I was, doing skull crushers on my back with 170 pounds on the EZ bar, and
BAM! My elbow started to throb like I was hit with a baseball bat in the funny bone. It took 4 months of babying it before it didn't hurt any more. Now I rack out 4 sets of 10 with a lot less weight. And every time I try to pound on the weight, I can feel that pain wanting to come back.
The moral of this story is, yes, get some good wraps (the ones above look good). But when you want to really rack out some weight for tri's, do dips, cable presses, kickbacks and some close-grip bench presses. Two-handed skull crushers (i.e. with an EZ bar or straight bar) allow you to put some massive weight on that will destroy your elbow joints.
Now that I'm done sounding like a pu$$y, I think I'll go do some skull crushers...GRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
