Why do we focus on Bench Press so much when Weighted Dips are the superior lift that have far greater atheletic benefits, fitness benefits and overall far better strength carry over into the real world.
Muscular development isn’t even a legitimate reason as Weighted Dips still come out on top for that, hell, even Weighted Pushups are superior to Bench Press for muscular development aswell as all the other things I mentioned.
OHP is the superior upper body lift. Followed by pull ups and then the power clean.
Jaxson Morris
Retired vidya gamer anime Fat neckbeards can’t do Dips or Chin-ups so they aren’t considered hip around here
Logan Fisher
if it helps me get a chest like lu's then im all for it
Nicholas Edwards
I have no idea how to do them correctly so I don't wreck my elbows
Jonathan Lee
The only reason I don't do dips is because I get shoulder pain when I do them. I can't keep my shoulders back. They always curl inward. Is this muscle imbalance related? What are some exercises I can do to fix this?
Gavin Garcia
Try with facepulls
Mason Davis
Thanks m8
Carson Collins
I do weighted dips every workout. They're a god tier exercise.
I did weighted push ups for a few months. I was just wearing aback pack with blankets in it around weights. Problem is I had to stop because it gave me really bad back pain out of nowhere. (the weight was always on my upper back).
Blake Bailey
my collarbones and sternum hurts like hell when i do dips any suggestions? i am 190cm 112kg and can do pullups with 60kg extra weight and 160kg bench, so no i am not that fat or unfit it just hurts?
Adam Rodriguez
No such thing as muscular imbalances since there’s no way too define “balanced muscular developement” reliably. You probably did too much volume wtih dips too soon, your other pressing volume stresses you shoulders. So if you did your normal pressing volume than just threw a bunch of sets of dips in at the end you probably just over exerted your shoulder a bit. Start with 1 set then build up sets slowly or cut down on some of your other pressing volume while you work them in. You might just have shoulders that don’t tolerate dips very well, they are by no means a neccesary exercise.
Joshua Robinson
This sounds made up, as I'm same height, but around 92 kg and couldnt imagine being 112 and having that much extra weight on Pull ups. Post body, I want to see what this looks like.
Dylan Carter
Better lift, but also harder on your shoulders. I quit them because i didn't want my cuffs fucked.
Aaron Davis
dips are a good exercise when you're on massive amounts of PEDs like Lu to protect your joints, otherwise just do dumbbell presses honestly.
Robert Rogers
Lean more forward on your way down. By your explaination youre going straight down which puts all of your weight on your collarbones.
Most injuries occur on the bench Press not those other lifts
Josiah Murphy
I was able to do 5 dips and 8 chinups even when I got to a point of 240lbs weeb neckbeard. Not an excuse at all.
Blake Evans
I don't know how to do them without fucking up my shoulders. I've watched dozens of form videos at this point and I just don't know what the fucking deal is.
Henry Turner
NONNEGOTIABLE
Andrew Campbell
I feel like people are more afraid of dips than they are deadlifts on here
Noah Hughes
Felt a stabbing pain in my sternum on my last rep and now it hurts everytime I do it fuck me
Tyler Garcia
Based on what? Because I can tell ya know bench is probably the most popular exercise above all others.
Dips are popular, but not done as often and people literally can't ego-lift with dips like they can on bench. If you aren't retarded I don't think you're going to hurt yourself the way that doing a ton of volume + weight on dips necessarily wil.
At least in my experience. I find that my shoulders don't feel right as opposed to bench.
I did dips as my main chest / tricep movement when I started lifting. Occasionally I'd do dumbbell press, but dips were my go-to. I kept adding weight until I stalled out at around 105 lbs for 5 reps, and switched to bench. I mainly do close grip bench, but the first time I tried regular I did 2 plates pretty easily at 180. That was after about 10 months of serious lifting. The point of this blog post is that you can absolutely build good carryover strength to bench with just dips. I think I'm going to stop benching for a few months and work on my weighted dips again.
