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06-02-2004, 10:05 PM #1
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06-02-2004, 11:12 PM #7
if your looking for a reason not to do dips dont do em. but they are excellent for chest development as well as other things.
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06-03-2004, 04:01 AM #8
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06-03-2004, 07:25 AM #13Originally posted by aserecuba
im looking for something like the above. will dips make your chest explode? a chest routine without dips is worthless, etc.
lightwight!!!!!
Dips are not overrated and don't let anyone fool you into thinking that. If anything is overrated, it's gotta be the bench press and even flat db press, for purposes of building decent mass. Dips along with incline db press should be your first priorities, and on the top of the list in selecting exercises for chest.
Dips are the equivalent of the upper body squat. It's basically a movement that allows you to move through space. Anytime you do a movement standing or pushing/pulling vertically, you are bound to recruit more motor units to complete the lift and that has to do with hormonal secretions in the pituitary and adrenal glands. Most people don't know that and by doing dipping they're doing themselves a big favor. Dips are thought as full upper body movements where you work and recruit all of the upper body synergistic and stabilizer muscles. All guys that can dip more than 160 lbs for reps have big muscular chests. When was the last time you saw a guy that can dip 160lbs for at least 4 reps? Very few can do that because most people don't like doing dips.
The same goes for chins and pullups. If you can chin 180, you have big back and biceps. And a damn good grip.
The sissies can stick with just their bench press and ignore dips."Knowing is not enough, one must apply" ~ Bruce Lee
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06-03-2004, 07:57 AM #14Originally posted by AJbuilder
Dips along with incline db press should be your first priorities, and on the top of the list in selecting exercises for chest.
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06-03-2004, 09:06 AM #15
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06-03-2004, 09:07 AM #16
My benching sucks pretty much... Not as much effect and gain as I wanted...
When I added dips, when I got my new dipping station 3+ months ago, my pecs finally rose above the collar bone, and I got that nice ridge at the sternal attachment.
However the place where dips seem to have had the most effect for me was in my delts.
Was that the kind of feedback you were looking for?
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06-03-2004, 09:08 AM #17
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06-03-2004, 09:20 AM #20
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06-03-2004, 09:30 AM #21
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06-03-2004, 11:58 AM #22
dips are fine. IMO, too much triceps recruited.
Decline bench (slight decline, stack a few weights under one side of a flat bench support beam) isn't bad at all.
I alternate here and there. Do either one. After enough weighted dips, you'll feel a bothersome pressure in your sternum.
Again, switch up both.
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06-03-2004, 12:47 PM #23Originally posted by AJbuilder
Dips are not overrated and don't let anyone fool you into thinking that. If anything is overrated, it's gotta be the bench press and even flat db press, for purposes of building decent mass. Dips along with incline db press should be your first priorities, and on the top of the list in selecting exercises for chest.
Dips are the equivalent of the upper body squat. It's basically a movement that allows you to move through space. Anytime you do a movement standing or pushing/pulling vertically, you are bound to recruit more motor units to complete the lift and that has to do with hormonal secretions in the pituitary and adrenal glands. Most people don't know that and by doing dipping they're doing themselves a big favor. Dips are thought as full upper body movements where you work and recruit all of the upper body synergistic and stabilizer muscles. All guys that can dip more than 160 lbs for reps have big muscular chests. When was the last time you saw a guy that can dip 160lbs for at least 4 reps? Very few can do that because most people don't like doing dips.
The same goes for chins and pullups. If you can chin 180, you have big back and biceps. And a damn good grip.
The sissies can stick with just their bench press and ignore dips.
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06-03-2004, 12:52 PM #24
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06-03-2004, 01:30 PM #25Originally posted by Big Nes
dips are fine. IMO, too much triceps recruited.
Decline bench (slight decline, stack a few weights under one side of a flat bench support beam) isn't bad at all.
I alternate here and there. Do either one. After enough weighted dips, you'll feel a bothersome pressure in your sternum.
Again, switch up both.
unless your not leaning forward and loooking down
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06-04-2004, 08:20 AM #26
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06-04-2004, 08:56 AM #27
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06-04-2004, 08:58 AM #28Originally posted by Biasedbulldog
I have my doubts... I have yet to see any guys with three 45's and a 25 hanging off their belts...
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06-04-2004, 09:06 AM #29Originally posted by zxcager
Dips are that good eh?
I see ppl benching like crazy in the gym. Hardly anyone dips sets seriously. Or it's the 10 dips and 'that's it I'm moving on to DB more inclines'...
of course you see most people benching like crazy. It's cause in most fitness gyms, most people don't know how to correctly workout and eat, if they did they would be sporting 50 inch chests already."Knowing is not enough, one must apply" ~ Bruce Lee
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06-04-2004, 09:08 AM #30Originally posted by AJbuilder
of course you see most people benching like crazy. It's cause in most fitness gyms, most people don't know how to correctly workout and eat, if they did they would be sporting 50 inch chests already.
plus, unless you're a big boy already, only awy to hit 50'' is going ot be with heavy back work....lats make up way too much of the measurement for dips to be able to bump you up to 50''
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