I have recently started adding weighted dips and pull-ups a couple times a week to my training program in hopes of breaking through a bench plateau and just to mix things up a bit. I am interested in anyone else’s experiences with these exercises and what kind of results they’ve had.
I am just coming back from a shoulder injury , I have just started doing dips with my own weight , but I used to dip with weight and have always pulled up with weights .I prefer dipping with weights over bench press because of the safety factor
Dips have certainly helped my bench when I competed in PL.
However, they didn’t do anything for my chest in terms of development even in the wide, leaning forward posture.
Overall a very good movement often overlooked nowadays.
Just my 0.02.
[quote]Radjxf wrote:
Dips have certainly helped my bench when I competed in PL.
However, they didn’t do anything for my chest in terms of development even in the wide, leaning forward posture.
Overall a very good movement often overlooked nowadays.
Just my 0.02.[/quote]
Rad, do you mean that you got zero growth from the movement or that that it just wasn’t aesthetically pleasing development ? Like how flat bench pressing does put muscle on me, but its only lower chest and doesnt result in a decent looking chest.
Heavy chins and dips are staples of my back and chest days. I love doing both. In fact, I don’t think I’ve done a back workout for years that didn’t have heavy chins in it at some point. Chins are usually my first movement when I train back.
For a while, I stopped doing dips, but then I noticed that my bench progress was starting to lag. Once I added dips back, my bench started to improve again. I do dips as my second or third movement in my chest workout. I usually start with inclines.