Dips gives me pain ;-/ Go decline, incline and flat.
[quote]trapzking wrote:
Dips gives me pain ;-/ Go decline, incline and flat.[/quote]
Where? Shoulder pain? Elbow? Chest?
I somewhat agree on the different decline grades, good decline benches are rare, but that can be easily remedied by sticking a plate or two underneath the foot support base.
Dips are good too but tough on the elbows I find, and three plates hanging from a chain pinch my weiner.
‘A plate is 45 lbs, anything less is just a collar’.
Isn’t the decline bench great for the ego boost though?
I manage 3-4 extra reps with 315, it must be the lower range of motion because my Incline Bench is the exact opposite.
Incline 85%
Flat 100%
Decline 115%
[quote]TKOWKD1 wrote:
I somewhat agree on the different decline grades, good decline benches are rare, but that can be easily remedied by sticking a plate or two underneath the foot support base.
Dips are good too but tough on the elbows I find, and three plates hanging from a chain pinch my weiner.
‘A plate is 45 lbs, anything less is just a collar’.
Isn’t the decline bench great for the ego boost though?
I manage 3-4 extra reps with 315, it must be the lower range of motion because my Incline Bench is the exact opposite.
Incline 85%
Flat 100%
Decline 115%[/quote]
i believe its something to do with whats recruited as well, the higher u get the more shoulders and less chest u use such as military presses so it only makes sense that incline is a weight less than flat but higher than military
[quote]tg2hbk4488 wrote:
trapzking wrote:
Dips gives me pain ;-/ Go decline, incline and flat.
Where? Shoulder pain? Elbow? Chest?
[/quote]
Same here. Tore AC tendon 15 months ago. I used to do dips religiously. Now I use the decline to do presses and flies for chest. Also do skullcrushers on decline bench.
If you read Poliquin’s article he supports using the decline bench to hit the sternum part of the pec for his athletes.
True Story.
[quote]tg2hbk4488 wrote:
Dips instead of declines[/quote]
dips are great, and I feel them better than any ther upper body pushing exercise. And as soon as I started doing them my triceps thickened up.
But they arent safe unless you weigh hardly anything. Every lb you weigh over 200lbs is another lb that you will have to lift without being able to warm up for that exercise. And if your going all the way down thats a real big stretch with allot of weigh for a exercise that you cant warm up in. I stared having shoulder problems as soon as I started doing them to but thats another story.
When I go past parallel on dips I start to get a pain in my right rhomboid, it doesn’t prevent me from doing more reps or doing back work but it is annoying. Anyone know what it could be?
[quote]JoeG254 wrote:
When I go past parallel on dips I start to get a pain in my right rhomboid, it doesn’t prevent me from doing more reps or doing back work but it is annoying. Anyone know what it could be?[/quote]
Dips work the rhomboids.thats what u r feeling.