I can't say this enough, if you actually want a nice chest then you NEED to do dips. Only doing bench presses will not cut it.
"Oh, it's a bodyweight exercise..." BITCH PLEASE!
If you want a built aesthetic chest then you need to do them. It will work all parts of your chest (upper-lower) and you'll feel the burn at that. I'd have to put it up there as well for one of the best tricep exercises.
enjoy wrecking you're shoulders & elbows, dips are a meme exercise favored by reddit.
Liam Evans
this, absolutely destroyed my left shoulder with dips if you must do them, warm up very well by doing arm circles and pushups and stretching. Also ensure your rom is not too big
Kayden Myers
Dips are great, love the shape its giving my chest. Just need to to get the upper part down now. Anyone recommend incline flys? I do incline dbs but want to work it more
Chase Young
>""""""""""""""weighted dips""""""""""""
Parker Price
Incline dumbbell flys are great as well as cable crossovers
Bentley Stewart
what do you mean? Everybody should warm up before exercise, especially shoulders
Benjamin Baker
Enjoy destroying your shoulders
Just do bench press followed by dumbbell press.
Ian Campbell
Hurt my shoulder doing dips as well.
Brandon Wright
dips stretch your chest like no other, they are a GOAT exercise along with pull ups and push ups
do you even want to make it user? deadlifts are 500% riskier and everyone here does them religiously anyway. no excuses senpai
Luke Jones
you should warm up no matter what exercise youre doing you mong
Logan Anderson
because your form is fucking shit, you need to hold your shoulders back when you do them.
Jaxon Baker
My shoulders hurt when I do them. What do
Ryan Hughes
>deadlifts are 500% riskier That's a load of garbage dips, even when done correctly, are bad for your shoulders.
Daniel Williams
It really hurts my shoulder joints. Am I doing something wrong or is that normal? Oh well, doing them anyway
Jonathan Allen
The key to dips, is waiting untill you have enough strength to do them easily. Do not start lifting with dips, or you will push your shit in.
Aaron Allen
My shoulder dislocates easily and I cant do dips
So I supplement them with cable crossovers and then I imitate the motion of a dip with cables. easier on the joints, same workout
Mason Hall
Just use the cable machine don't fuck up your shoulder and ruin your compound lifts. I only do baby ROM dips
Thomas Bennett
You are shrugged when you are down in the dip. Try to keep your shoulders back
Adam Bailey
I feel like dips would be safer if they made the grip narrower so there's much less risk of flaring elbows
Jaxon Brooks
Retract your scapula prior to dipping down, just like you would retract your scapula before you bring the bar down in the bench press
Ayden Nguyen
what's with all these weak shoulder fucks? bad genetics, bad form or what? my shoulder will be sore but it's my actual muscle and not my joint.
Carson Walker
Thoughts on the dip machine instead? Straight bodyweight dips feels a bit uncomfortable on my shoulders
Josiah Collins
>weighted dips
Ethan Gray
not gonna make it. dips are essential but form is key.
Brody Nelson
this, I think they just have shit flexibility. I barely feel anything from bodyweight dips
Wyatt Gonzalez
I tried it but I always lean forward into my dips so the machine was useless
Jayden Nelson
is this exercise safe at all?
Brayden Richardson
I've done dips since I was 15, why are you all so gay?
Blake Brooks
>not doing dips using your bros boners as dip bars >making it
Aiden Nguyen
Problem is getting the sets in before they cum. If your bros are weak, you may only get one in.
my cage came with straight bars that i would insert sideways in the cage, but they're these hollow aluminum pipes that look like they're gonna break with a substantial amount of weight on them. these new ones hang from the long way of the cage so the support is much sturdier, and i'm not banging off the catches with plates and shit every time.
the only different is that the new ones measure 24 inches between bars, and the old ones were 22 inches. that's okay right?
Jonathan Davis
t. Someone who did dips for the first time today and enjoyed them
Gavin Rogers
All these betas that wont make it....what a shame
Brandon Jackson
T. Someone who tried dips once with shit form and exploded their shoulders.
My bench was stalled for 3 weeks until I started adding weight to my dips. Now my tris and my chest are exploding and I'm progressing on bench again. I also see carryover on the press.
Seriously considering replacing bench with weighted dips and using db bench as an accessory.
Camden Fisher
post that big chest then faggot
Luis Anderson
oh wow, your bench press was stalled for a WHOLE THREE WEEKS WOW!
you're a novice lifter, you have no idea what the fuck you're talking about, and you need to stop giving advice here until you put the actual time into lifting and know anything about it
fucking faggot
Brody Price
hey heyyy....why the mean words? no say sorry to user
Christian Phillips
Dips are really the shit. I'm 54 and can't do barbell or dumbbell presses any more. No shoulder pain at all with dips. My chest is better than ever.
Jayden Nguyen
>File: a7rrXNL_460s.jpg (55 KB, 460x574) Oh my god I thought I was the only one
Noah Wood
enjoy cracking your sternum doing dips
Xavier Morales
Dips hurt my shoulders less then benching does
Hunter Sanders
How fucking out of shape are you that you get injured through a body weight exercise, stick to /fat/ threads buddy
Justin Phillips
My sternum cracks and pips when I stretch Feels good mon
Sebastian Martinez
>I'm 54 What the fuck user
Dominic Ramirez
IT POPS IT FUCKING POPS FUCK YOU AUTO CORRECT WHAT THE FUCK IS A PIP
Owen Russell
Not him but my sternum got injured from body weight dips when I was an active and very in shape kickboxer
Jose Ross
Some people's anthropometry isn't suited for dips. They end up seriously injuring their shoulders. All it takes is one wrong rep and you're fucked
Robert Green
> What is dipping with good form? > What is retraction and depression of the scapula
Fucking magnets, man.
Nolan Nguyen
I bet you kiss girls, faggot
Grayson Nelson
I actually get that effect with "Arnold-Dips" too, but it just doesnt make sense to me.
Jackson Collins
T. Shit form
Austin Bailey
Did you not warm up and pack your shoulders?
Aiden Nguyen
Not 100% true. For people who are not so much in to body weight-exrcises, its pretty damn hard. I started doing that shit, after i pressed the 100kg and i sucked at the beginning.
Christian Hill
post injection pain
Levi Hughes
stop using memes you don't understand
Angel Jones
If you do dips you're retarded.
hurr push through pain durr just do it with perfect form
Lifting is a long term thing. You're not an athlete, even if there was some athletic benefit to gain from doing shit like this you're not getting it. You're a guy trying to look good and stay healthy. You want your joints healthy for as long as possible to make lifting sustainable. 5 years down the road, you're more likely to not be a fat sack of shit if you can still lift without pain, than if you did your 200 pound dips.
t. someone who's not in his early 20s anymore
Benjamin Carter
>t. 25 year old
Evan Scott
>itt: anons making up bullshit Dips ruined my shoulders, took my job, burned down my house, molested my children and BLACKED my wife
Jack Lewis
I'm actually 30 and I had to stop doing much shoulder work for over a year because I used to think that some pain during dips was okay.
It's all fun and games as you're getting used to the bodyweight part of the movement, and feeling some discomfort there might be something you push through, but once you seriously try to incorporate dips into your routine you're generally fucked, because then you HAVE to add weight. I barely benched 100 kgs when I was doing dips with 50 kgs hanging off my waist for reps, so if your bench reaches some respectable number you will have to have a huge amount of weight fucking up your shoulder joins and even your elbows.
Injuries are cumulative, unless you want to stop physical activity after a few years you should start caring for your joints yesterday.
Jackson Peterson
> You want your joints healthy for as long as possible to make lifting sustainable.
> Don't do one of the single best exercises to strengthen your rotator cuff, guys. You'll die.
Logan Howard
>Don't do one of the single best exercises to strengthen your rotator cuff, guys.
Luke Morgan
You have to go back to le reddit nigger. >muh shoulders
Luis Harris
I fucked my upper back up a while ago. Can't do dips anymore. Is there any good alternative? To compensate I've just been doing more bench.
Nicholas James
your*
Angel Thompson
I think the best is to be able to do one to two with good form. Just do sets of singles/doubles untill failure and you will get strong enough to do them quick. I was able to add two dips every week to my sets that way, in less than two months I was able to bang out 3x10 easily. A lot of dipping is form.
Michael Roberts
and I fucked my one shoulder up doing bench, doesn't mean bench press is bad for you.
Just like bench, shoulder positioning is key for both exercises.
Jason Robinson
Push ups are underrated way too much in the regulat fitness world I think. People regulate them to warmup exercise but there are plenty of ways to add weight and get strong. Really if you get hurt or have pain doing push ups you should stop going to the gym untill you get that shit sorted. Push ups are one of the best exercises for shoulder health.
Cooper Ward
Weighted dips are for morons. Ring dips on the other hand, are the single best push exercise in existence.