Bench dips or paralell bar dips

[bigstan22]

Which type of dips hit your triceps harder/grow them more effectively?


Bench dips, where you place your hands on a bench behind you and your legs on a bench in front of you, lowering your arms to 90-ish degrees (elbows to your sides) or, the paralell tricep dips, also with a 90 degree bend.

Am trying to decide which one to put into my work out

[makeitbrahs]

Parallel bar with weights

[bigstan22]

Sorry I forgot to add "and why?"

[Narsedax]

Yeah, I agree. I have a 40lb weight vest right now that I use on bar dips, but once I max that out, I'll have to link weights to my hips or legs. Much easier on parallel bars. I also find bar dips work a lot more muscle groups. Bench dips focus on just triceps, but bar dips, you're actually dipping your whole body weight and it really hits your back as well

[bigstan22]

I've done bench dips before, and I find if you have a small napsack or pack you can load some weights onto there, and wear the napsack backwards. So instead of it being on your back it ll be on your chest. Bam. Takes some inconvienience away from bench dips

[CarD1]

Don't faack up doing bench dips.

-too much weight
-lost form
-tore rotator cuff

The struggle is real. Do not go overboard if you do bench dips