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Tips for dips

Anyone got tips on dealing with a partial SLAP tear in shoulder? Trying to avoid surgery

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Incredible to see Alan still learning and sharing new things after accomplishing so much in his lifting career. One of the best guys in the fitness industry!

Great advice! Really nice seeing a fitness video with applicable tips without going overboard with crazy editing ..

What helped me was only doing the concentric part for a while, with the tip of my feet helping initiate the motion. This way I could fully control and adjust my position to make it pain free (my issue on dips was shoulders, had to learn how to engage the chest more)

Only ever seem to get occasional shooting pain in the lateral head of my triceps when doing dips on dip bars. Wearing sleeves solves it, though. You''ve recommended ring push-ups. Ring dips would be an obvious suggestion also since they, unlike bars, target various stabilizer muscles.

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I always felt like my sternum was splitting apart while doing dips so I avoided doing it, I'll explore the mobility through pushup variants, thank you! This made me remember that there was a machine at my old gym where you could do seated dips, and i really loved the angle and the pump this gave me, looking forward to it!

Even though I do weighted dips and weighted pull-ups, I always warm up with heavier band assistance, lighter band assistance, body-weight unassisted, then weight added. At a training stage when top sets are assisted, it's especially good to warm up with lots of assistance, less assistance, then the top set's level of assistance. Thanks Alan.

Great tips - I never get on with dips as they hurt my elbows, however I may try and build back up to them now using some of these tips

What about pain in the elbows?

Total reps - ladders 1,2,3,4,5, x 4 = 60 reps. Turn the other way on v dip bars

Dipping with a 10 pound plate for a guy that weighs 200 pounds is a 5% increase. That would be like adding 20 pounds to a 405 lb squat.

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Dude yeah I feel them like crazy across the low sternum or diaphragm area

I can currently do only 6 unassisted body weight dips per set. Should I just use drip back to using a band until I can do more unassisted reps or just keep going with body weight? I don’t get any pain…just not strong enough to do more than 6. Thanks Alan, you are the man!!! 🤘 💪

Also... let a partner hold your feet; find a dip station that is narrow enough, unfortunately these days many are too wide; there is grip tape you can buy at the hardware store (for outdoor steps, for anti-slip) that is great to have on the dip station handles if your gym will allow it (not good on the wrists/shoulders if your grip is moving during the rep.)

I used to be unable to do bodyweight dips due to shoulder pain, but after doing long sets of slow and controlled dips on an assisted dip machine for a couple months, I was able to progress to normal dips pain free!

The slingshot works absolutely wonderful on the dip

Is it true that when I dip, you dip, we dip?

That sternum pain so unique too like the bone is about to break in half lol

I started DB Pullovers 1 year ago because of NHs video. Tried Dips before but always had sternum pain altough i regressed to RTO holds for 2 months. I revisited dips 5 weeks ago and was suprised to discover that the sternum pain was gone.

How about dead stop dips, stopping at bottom after slow eccentric before concentric?

How much can you dip, Alan?

When I combined dips with shrugs in supersets, the pain in my shoulder joints went away.

Assisted dips are life-saver. It helps me progress my ROM slowly then I can dip without it (my ROM is still questionable though, I cannot put my shoulders below my elbows)

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Last tip is the most useful one

the enabler for me was trying different grip widths. I used to dip as a last exercise in my old gym and just accept the shoulderpain the following 1-2 days. now, in my new gym where the dip station has varying widths I can dip painfree my going wider

Hurts my wrists

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A low-bar-squat position seems safter for taking a dump in the woods, the "exit" is further away from the calves...

Angle of the dip bars matters too

does this work for people who are black like me?

I suck at squats and DL's but I'm a dip freak. 😂

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I had the dips trust, until he bit my elbows. Had to take him out to pasture.

Certain ab machines also injure my xiphoid process like dips.

Yeah every time I try to put dips back into my program I end up dropping them as with bodyweight it feels like my sternum is going to tear open. Guess I need to just resign myself to using some heavy assistance for a good while, Alan is pretty much the first I've seen being honest about that instead of telling us to just stop being wusses.

Dips are amazing. I can’t imagine training without them.

Never had a problem with dips. Used to do three sets of 25, all the way down to the bottom with a slight pause.

Hey Alan, long time dip enthusiast. What’s your philosophy on doing dips and keeping your arms parallel to the ground vs deep dips past parallel like you show in this video?

I've had luck with keeping my scapulas retracted and down, and keeping my abs braced, with pelvis tucked, for as much of the movement as possible. I engage the muscles of my back as much as possible. I have to use band assistance to do them like this. It winds up being tricep and back dominant. Dips for me always aggravated my AC joint horribly. So far this is working, though it may not be a chest dominant movement anymore. We'll see.

Tucking knees to chest leaning forward and treating it as a pushup in the cannon ball position is the way

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I used to do them all the time. Since I tore my labrum its over and out

Dips sometimes hurt me in my collar bones when I do my working set towards the end. I try to work through it until I hit muscular failure or get close to it, which usually means doing 2-3 more. The exercise still works, the pain doesn't stop me from doing it once a week and progressing with good enough speed. I understand there might come a point in the near future when I will have to change something up because with big enough load the pain might become too severe but I'm not at that point yet and for me the exercise has good enough stimulus to fatigue ratio that the pain is still worth it. I can push them further than the bench press without a spotter, they don't fatigue my forearms as much and I don't have a problem with the stability requirements.