My upper body routine right now is really simple...
Bench Press
Weighted chin-Ups
Shoulder Press (seated)
Chest-Supported Row
I’ve been doing weighted dips lately, and it feels great, it’s just I don’t know which pressing exercise it could replace, it’s a vertical movement like shoulder press but targets the musculature more similar to bench, right?
I don’t do the three of them because I only train as a complement for my soccer training.
Which pressing exercise would you ditch to include dips? Thank you
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12-03-2020, 03:11 PM #1
How to include dips in an upper body workout?
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12-03-2020, 03:17 PM #2
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12-03-2020, 07:45 PM #4
Although dips are in the vertical plane, they aren’t even remotely similar to an overhead press. Dips require downward scapula rotation, whereas overhead press requires upward rotation. Dips mostly resemble a decline bench press, to which they would substitute for a regular bench press in your case. As the guys above mentioned, it would be a good idea to have A/B variations of your split and include dips in place of bench for one of the days. Whatever you decide to do, make sure you have at least one overhead press in your routine. They are such an important movement for promoting structural integrity of the shoulder girdle that the only acceptable substitute for them is other shoulder press variations and perhaps a landmine press. Nothing else comes close. Also, if you have the option, do them standing and not seated.
Last edited by leidenesLK; 12-03-2020 at 07:59 PM.
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