I've seen several training schedules and none of them involve dips. I have to wonder why that is, dips are among the best ways to build up your upper body. Infact, if your'e familiar with the UFC you may know a guy by the name Carlos Newton. He's a big muscly jiujitsu master, my god this guy is cut. But the thing is he never lifts weights. The only thing he's done to get more muscular (besides jujitsu) are dips. If doing only dips can make someone as strong as it made him, I would imagine it'd be a hell of an asset to your routine.
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howcome no one here does dips?
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Soshyopathe
Master Don Juan
he's cut, not huge. Dips aren't a great mass builder unless you start hanging weights off your belt. And most of our splits have pecs and tris on seperate days. The dips work both of them. They're a good overall excersize though.
The Great Juan
Don Juan
My current split i do chest and tri on the same day so i'm doing dips, they are a great exercise. This is what my chest-tri day looks like:
Chest:
Flat bench press
Incline dumbell press
Dumbell flys
Triceps:
Dips
Close grip bench press
Although i've been thinking about giving arms their own day so this might change.
Chest:
Flat bench press
Incline dumbell press
Dumbell flys
Triceps:
Dips
Close grip bench press
Although i've been thinking about giving arms their own day so this might change.
"I just moved here from Florida."
That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?
She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."
She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.
I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.
Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.
DJ Girevik
Senior Don Juan
I just started doing 5 rep, high set routines on it with the chin assist machine (because I can't do 5 reps of dips yet). It left me sore for 4 days after only about 4 sets! Needless to say, I'm doing more dips from now on...
misunderstood??
Master Don Juan
I'm currently doing chest and triceps on mondays and I do dips after i am done the chest porition of my workout.
PiNkMaGGiT
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erm... what are dips? Can somebody please explain them to me cause they sound like a good exercise. Thanks 