I did dips yesterday and today my chest hurts, (not the muscles), but the chest bone between the pecs and the chin area. When I press on this area of my center chest its sore (again it's not muscle soreness but more like the chest cavity). Am I leaning forward to much? Going to deep? Or maybe I shouldn't be doing them.
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Thread: Chest pain from dips
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02-08-2008, 05:00 AM #1Registered User
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Chest pain from dips
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02-08-2008, 05:34 AM #2diet soda addict
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probably has to do with the positioning of the handles you used. most of the machines people use for dips have 2 postions that you can flip......the closer the handles are the harder your triceps will have to work.....if the handles are the farther apart your chest comes into play much more.
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02-08-2008, 05:42 AM #3Registered User
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I know exactly what you mean. Did that in my twenties the bone/cartilege actually buckled; couldn't do dips for years. Most likely back then I was doing them too deep and too fast (youth
). Lay off the dips for a while; monitor how your chest feels doing benches or anything else & be careful getting back into dips; but hope you can.
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02-08-2008, 05:43 AM #4The show goes on
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yesOriginally Posted by someday
on chest day I have em wide and on arm day I have em close.
I get the same thing though when I do them wide. it goes away in a day or so and it has been happening less and with less intensity.
I think the breast bone just gets stronger along with the muscles
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02-08-2008, 07:36 AM #5Registered User
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Yesterday was the first day doing them in a long time, I just did them in place of dumbbell benches. I was doing weighted dips last summer and they didn't hurt as much as when I done them yesterday.There are no adjustments on this machine but I try to keep my elbows pulled in close to me.
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02-08-2008, 08:11 AM #6Enjoying Life
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it could be due to over training or using too much weight.
i'd say to give it a few weeks off, then start back using lighter weights and work your way up and if the pain returns, back off or give it more time to heal...just my $0.02.
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02-08-2008, 08:14 AM #7Registered User
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It is the cartiledge connection on the bone that has displaced - did it myself last year at a hardcore gym when they fixed the flye machine for initiation ceremony [ how they get their kicks ] - it will take a month or so to resettle. Keep the elbows tucked and monitor it as you do them - its a pain but it will improve.
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). Lay off the dips for a while; monitor how your chest feels doing benches or anything else & be careful getting back into dips; but hope you can.
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