Dips Exercise

Dips exercise

Dips Exercise

The Dips exercise focuses on using your own body weight, or a machine if you need the assistance, to work your entire upper body. The dips exercise is a great way to finish your chest routine. If you’re doing shoulders on chest day, it’s also a good transition into your shoulder routine.

  • Main Muscle Worked:    Chest
  • Other Muscles:    Shoulders, Triceps
  • Type:    Strength
  • Equipment:    Parallel bars
  • Level:    Intermediate

Dips exercise

Begin fully extended on the bars, and lower yourself carefully. Try not to put too much strain on your neck, look forward while you perform the exercise.
Dips Exercise:

  1. Start by hovering above the bars, and then move down slowly until you feel a slight stretch in the chest.
  2. If your not getting the full range of motion, look for assistance by using a machine or elastic bands.
  3. Once you feel the stretch in your chest, move back to the starting position as you breathe out.
  4. If you don’t have access to parallel bars, try using chairs from around your home or office as in the YouTube video below.

If you want to increase resistance during the dips exercise, you can add weight via a weight belt, backpack, or by holding a dumbbell with your legs.

Popular Dips Workout

Here is Instructional Fitness explaining the dips exercise:

The dips exercise is great to do outside of the gym, as well. All you need to do dips is a stable object, like a chair:

Celebrity personal trainer, Simon Waterson, who trained Chris Evans in Captain America says about the dips exercise:

Anything involving your own bodyweight is tough. Start slowly and just go halfway down. As you gain confidence, allow your chest to get lower, until your elbows reach 90 degrees, which is a full repetition.

Reverse Dips

Reverse Dips just means you’re doing the dips exercise with your arms turned around, behind you. What’s great about reverse dips is that you can literally do them anywhere. Not only could you use a bench, but also a table, chair, or other stable, elevated object.

In the reverse dips exercise, celebrity trainer to Jay-Z and Beyonce, Margo Borges, says:

Lock your knees and lower your body toward the ground until your elbows are bent. Then, go up until your arms are parallel to the ground. For an extra boost, keep one leg in the air throughout the exercise, changing legs each rep.

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