dips/pull ups everyday?

[Ben844]

My buddy says he does a few sets of dips and pull ups every time he works out (3-4 times a week) and that it's fine because it's just body weight. He's pretty big and seems to know his stuff so I usually trust what he says. I've always done them with my chest/back once a week. What do you guys think?

[vincerich]

It's not automatically a bad idea. It depends on your workout schedule. If you can bang out a large number of dips and pull-ups with your body-weight, then a few sets 3 times per week probably won't be much of an issue, and if you do full-body workouts, you'll probably end up doing pull-ups and dips (with or without weight) 3x/week anyway.

[NZninja101]

When it comes to dips and pull ups every day, I'd say it's probably not a good idea unless you're quite strong in a bodyweight sense. Because if that's the case, then the chins and dips probably are just like warm up sets, pumping blood into the muscles and aiding recovery not so differently to the way cardio can do so if it is used sparingly and NOT intensely. But if you're struggling to do many reps on these then I'd say you shouldn't do them all the time, just when the program calls for it. Either way I'm sure your friend stays a long way from failure on these considering he does them so often and doesn't want them to mess with his progression.

[coreywedel12]

My buddy says he does a few sets of dips and pull ups every time he works out (3-4 times a week) and that it's fine because it's just body weight. He's pretty big and seems to know his stuff so I usually trust what he says. I've always done them with my chest/back once a week. What do you guys think?

i used to play football and we were required to do 50 total reps of dips 2 days a week. we were supposed to do them anywhere within our scheduled workout and it didnt matter if we did 25/25 or 10/10/10/10/10 or 18/12/12/8. from doing this i noticed a big increase in size and strength.

hope this helps. keep up the hard work!

[JohnUSA]

IF you tear the same muscle, the same way everyday, not only are you limiting your range of motion and limiting growth, you are also denying said muscles rest and recovery... rest and recovery are just as important as the exercise.

[tomsfish]

i think it depends on where you are at on these.last year 10 pullups or 10 dips was a compound lift for me,this year i warm up with them when i go to the gym.if you can do 50 pushups in a row,i dont see that doing a couple of sets of 10 every day will tear your muscles up.if you cant do many,then it would.

[Tyciol]

OP ben, 3-4 times per week isn't every day, it's every other day.

IF you tear the same muscle, the same way everyday, not only are you limiting your range of motion and limiting growth, you are also denying said muscles rest and recovery... rest and recovery are just as important as the exercise.

Sleep usually happens every day, so the muscles are still getting time to recover. It's not 'the same way' if he changes up the reps or does more weight or something.

Obviously if he pushed to crazy limits it'd probably take more than 1 day of rest, but the guy he's talking about might be one of those ones who holds back from training to those extreme limits but still trains progressively each day to see small but gradual improvements right?

[Makaveli3]

pull ups are really good