TIME STAMPS 0:01 Weighted Dips - 280lbs for 5 Reps 0:31 Extremely Painful Dips 0:55 EliteFTS & Bar Bend Collabs Coming Up & My Athletes in a Local Comp! 1:58 Change Your Grip, Change thew Width, Change the Kind 2:25 Make Sure You’re using the correct part of your hand 2:36 Horrible Grip Position 2:41 Keeping Wrist Locked like when punching 3:00 Direct Mind Muscle Connection by changing grip 3:20 For Triceps - Throttle ON 3:36 Fro More Chest Focus - Throttle OFF 4:00 If Still in Pain Consider Dips on Blocks or Boxes 4:33 If Not Strong Enough For Dips use Slingshot (Coupon Code: Die Empty) Haha 4:55 You can Do the Same thing as Slingshot with a Resistance Band (But I don’t make Money) 5:26 Changes you should make in your body 5:32 DO NOT Lead With your Chin! 5:52 Superhero pose in top position 6:04 Shoulder Blades in back pockets - Not Pulled Retracted 6:27 How Lower Body Position changes Muscle Focus 6:36 Slight Forward Lean by Crossing legs Behind you for More Chest Activation 6:48 For Triceps, Cross Feet in front of you to stay more erect 7:16 Starting in a shrugged position could make your shoulders angry at you. 7:35 The Descent of the Dip 8:00 Keep Hands Engaged and Push Elbows Out to Descend 8:12 Depth on the Dip? 9:00 How you reverse the Motion Matters Greatly 9:05 Cues For More Reps or More Power In Weighted Dips 9:32 Using Dip to Build Mass On your Chest or as A Chest Finisher 9:51 Dumbbell Fly Your Dips 10:18 Where to touch Your Chest on the Dip 10:40 Weighted Dip Benefits 10:53 Weight Belt or Chain? 11:28 Chains around Waist or Neck? 11:51 Keep Weights Close to your B…ody 12:04 How to attach weight around waist 12:12 Don’t Jump to Bar with Weight Dips 13:16 Outro
I absolutely love you brother! Your positivity and energy are completely infectious. Usually a few TH-cam videos are involved in my nightly wind down. Lol I can't include your videos in that process because I end up getting way too amped. So, here I am at 5 something on a Sunday morning, getting ready to go attack the day. Thank you for being such an integral part of starting my day off with positivity and just all around good energy. I am filled with gratitude because who you are and your willingness to share who you are with us. You are inspiring!
Team grindy-teary-uppy-impingey shoulders represent! Thanks Brian for the tips. Will try to implement them. Great to see you collaborate with bigger and bigger names. The industry needs more positive people like you.
These tips have really helped with pain. I have used weighted dips for years, but these tips have taken my dips to the next level. Thanks, there's so much quality content on here. God bless.
Something not mentioned here is that some peoples sternums do not actually tolerate dips. These are all helpful tips for people not getting sternum pain but for anyone watching and looking at the comments if your sternum (bone in the middle of your chest) hurts, try a shallower dip only to parellel, if that hurts. You cannot safely perform dips. Find an alternative.
It’s a good workout but I’m not going to do them again cause the pain I get in my chest I just did them for triceps but I found another workout for triceps and it works better for me.
Congratulations on the Table Talk podcast. Dave Tate is one of, if not the most, helpful and giving people in the fitness/lifting industry. The amount of knowledge that guy shares is incredible. I'm genuinely happy for you, man.
This the best dip technique video I’ve seen! Which is awesome because Dips are one of the greatest general pressing assistance Exercises(ohp or bench). Just ask Pat Casey (first guy to bench 600lb, and at a spelt 300lb he added 300 more lb and did dips)
Man I didn't know the chin/neck/shrug thing, was a thing. Took video of myself doing dips to see and wouldn't you know, I am guilty of the chin /neck/shrug thing. 🌈The more you know.🌈 Thanks for the advice.
"chains around the neck are better for selling protein powder" i laughed so hard at this some wee came out! So true Brian mate, love it! i don't get pain from doing dips but there's still some awesome tips that i'll use. thanks mate, keep up the good work. atb Tom from England.
9:51 was the best visual I've ever witnessed..... it's not much pain I feel but tendon snapping and sometimes I hear a pop, that's why I've switch from chest focus to triceps. Your triceps might enjoy an Impossible Dip
Started to watch your vids, and now for me it's like: New training - new PR. Thanks for all your tips, Brian, you doing amazing job. Can you give some tips about squats at my home gym, if i don't have a rack, or something like that. At every squat session i need to first press that a little bit heavy barbell above my head, and then after i finish my squats i need to press it the same way again.. But, a front squats a lot easier at that point, but doing just a front squats that probably not that effective.. With love from Russia (Platonic) :)
Are you using a bench with rack for your squats? Many many years ago I did and I agree, front squats seemed easier, until you're rolling the center of gravity too much on your toes. Lower the pins and treat the bench like a box squat to rack and unrack, still walk away for the reps in between
You'll end up getting used to high bar but that pressing overhead isn't good for the shoulders, esp if the bar doesn't quite land in any shelf on your back...
@@LatimusChadimus Well, i have a kind of bench, but it's actually not for a press, it's for a core training, and max weight... something about 130kg. About my shoulders, yeah, that's true, so i just stopped doing squats with a barbel, and started to do it with a 20kg plate in my hands and 10kg backpack behind me. Of course, after that my biceps pumped as hell, but that's really cool way, just to make sure, that biceps are healthy. I don't have a rack, or some thing like that. But sometimes i using it for some help, to lift it not from the ground, but from a little bit of height Thank you for some tips!
Do a hip belt squat standing on two boxes or objects of the same height. Not a pure substitute for the barbell squat but a pretty good alternative. But if i was you i'd buy a set of heavy duty squat stands if i could.
@@garysellars8914As soon as i finish my studying and start making money, then i ll definitely buy a rack or maybe something like that. Until then i ll try to figure that out, because everything i have, that a bench for core training, barbel and 2 dumbbells. Kinda poor home gym, yeah, but atleast something. Thanks for a respond!
Yes I notice I can do Dips on boxes/Flat sutfaces, not handles. It's so frustrating because I LOVE this exercise! Side Note: I've not watched Brians vids since his injury a while ago. I'd forgotten how good his vids are! 👏🏾
Another tip for those who do heavy dips, have a closed chest. The moment your chest opens, the rep is lost. Awesome video Brian! My favorite fitness channel.
Alright guys, ive been seeing Brian under 200k subscribers for WAY to long. This channel will make you strong! Tell your friends, family, dogs, everyone!
Awesome band tip Brian. Used to ring dip often, but whenever I don't so them, my technique and strength goes to crap. I like to ease into it. Plenty of reps, low intensity, higher frequency
Lookin forward to ur workout with dave. Dave was nice enough to sign the elitefts belt that I ordered last week. I was so freakin stoked when I got it!
i wear my chains like a backpack: loop behind the neck, in front of shoulders and back behind my lower back again. longer lengths like figure 8 on it's side (infinity sign) with karabiner forming the cross behind mid back. way easier to put on and off, no danger to sensitive zone ;)
Just bought a pair of gymnastics rings because I‘m confined to a home gym. I see them in the background in a lot of your videos and was wondering if you have any pointers with ring dips and if adding weight to these is a smart idea?
With them being suspended from your rafters (I'm assuming), just keep an ear out for any structural damage. You should be okay, unless you and the weights total like 600 pounds or something. =P
GERGtheNERD they hang from a steel beam we use to hang engine blocks from so the structure shouldn’t be a problem but I got lingering shoulder/s injuries and from what I can tell, stability plays a big part
Great video! Some of these tips I've never seen before! Slingshot/resistance band assistance is far better than the conventional way of putting it around your legs.(You can keep your leg hair now!) If I may, could I suggest that you do your dips looking forward Mr. Alsruhe? In my (rather limited) experience, it has helped me push more weight, be more stable, and protect my shoulders. Would love to hear you thoughts, and keep up the good work!
That would be craning your neck under load similar to the deadlift. I would highly advise that you don’t do that. Unless you are just talking about keeping your neck neutral, then I would agree. But if you just look straight forward, you are sticking pressure on your spine it doesn’t want
@@BrianAlsruheOfficial I'm sorry if I wasn't very clear. In my mind I was suggesting that you look at a point on the floor in front of you. My bad. I agree that craning your neck is a terrible idea on dips.
Thanks Brian I have a weight vest that I put on and do my dips with on parallel bars, what I was going to say how ever is I am going to stop bent over rows because my lower back gives me nothing but trouble, but I just bought some viking press handles and I will have to go with that and put more weight on the vest for dips , not sure what to do about my lower back pain , it is arthritic because I am 57 years old now , but have no intention of taking my foot off the accelerator pedal, that is not an option , I shall just find a way .
Such a cool video Brian. I can only do about 6 full dips so also work on holding the bottom position isometrically for time. I can do it for around 40 seconds so now want to add weight. What length of chain is best? I see people threading it through a pool noodle so it doesn't dig into their back however i'd prefer to just use the chain if that's ok just like in the video. I bought a dip stand and apart from my olympic barbell i think it's the best piece of equipment i've ever owned.
That's exactly why I'm here. The first reps on the bar dip hurt my right elbow. Eventually the elbow warms up and it goes away. But then the pain comes back at night when I'm trying to sleep. I'm agitating the ligaments / joints in my elbow with this exercise. So that's what I'm watching you now.
I've always been good at doing dips with no pain. I would however love to see a video about inner elbow pain during chins and pulls. I've do all sorts of stretches for the area, wear all kinds of compression cuffs (thanks Mark Bell :), partially grabbing a band (thanks Jeff Cavalier) and I still get some degree of pain on the inner side of my left elbow.
One thing, I think it was Christian Thibaudeau who mentioned this, if you stick your legs out more kind of like an L-sit, it will shift your upper body to be in a position to hit your chest more. I find this to be true.
Good timing. I"m trying to build my dips and OHP up. Dips are aggravating my right shoulder and tendon. I can do sets of 10 when warmed up, but the inflammation afterwards is aggravating.
Great video! There are so many people leading with their chin, and also saying you shouldn't put your legs back together. I always knew they were both strange suggestions. I never thought it was a good idea to perform neck extensions with dips, and then I noticed since day one that putting my legs back together helped me use my chest better. Thanks again!
Following your channel with hopes of solving costochondritis / Tietze's syndrome. Had this shit since August and tried rest, prescribed anti-inflammatory medicine, light training and rehab, hard training, chiropractor's but nothing seems to work. Seen pretty much no improvement at all. I used to train every day but got sick during the summer. Went back to the gym and did some light dips and something happened in the first set which caused immediate pain which never went away ever since. Getting all kinds of anxiety from this. My back is probably stiff and my posture bad but its just that I got it in connection with doing dips which makes me think something pop out of place or so. Also hade a surgery a few years ago around my sternum which might have created stiffness and scar tissue there aswell.. Please reach out if anyone has any help.
Good video as usual lots of good information. Quick question I suffer from Dyspraxia (fine motor control issues i.e. Clumsy Child Syndrome. Whilst not dip specific on complex movements like pull ups I find for love nor money I can't trigger the moment to pull myself down to lift my body up. It's not strength, but wondered if there's any work around to get the mind triggering the right connection. I have watched your videos and whilst other videos have helped other movements my pull ups are still none existent.
@@BrianAlsruheOfficial At the moment I end up going into a hanging leg raise rather than pull up although I tell my body I want to pull myself up. I usually sub them for lat pull downs at the moment to get some work in. It's not wholly strength - but there's three things I've tried to do since childhood that I can't and I think it's motor control - might be wrong - Skipping, Pull ups, Chin Ups.
That is so interesting to me. Not downplaying what you’re going through at all, but I would love to work with someone who has your condition to see what we could get them to do
@@BrianAlsruheOfficial no worries. Just wired differently.. Sounds trivial but things like: doing shoe laces and buttons are much more time consuming. Have got strength to a degree can Bench 100 kg, Deadlift 150 kg, Squat 130 kg Overhead Press 70 kg with good control and safety so it's not a strength problem.
Have seen 2 different guys fracturing their sternum/clavicles doing dips in front of me. as a dips/chin guy,i gotta admit that they are not for everybody.anatomic differences are real on that.
I could be very wrong, but it sounds like maybe there’s something going on with the hand placement, mobility or technique or where you are bringing your chest down to. Because you really shouldn’t have pain like that after a couple reps
TIME STAMPS
0:01 Weighted Dips - 280lbs for 5 Reps
0:31 Extremely Painful Dips
0:55 EliteFTS & Bar Bend Collabs Coming Up & My Athletes in a Local Comp!
1:58 Change Your Grip, Change thew Width, Change the Kind
2:25 Make Sure You’re using the correct part of your hand
2:36 Horrible Grip Position
2:41 Keeping Wrist Locked like when punching
3:00 Direct Mind Muscle Connection by changing grip
3:20 For Triceps - Throttle ON
3:36 Fro More Chest Focus - Throttle OFF
4:00 If Still in Pain Consider Dips on Blocks or Boxes
4:33 If Not Strong Enough For Dips use Slingshot (Coupon Code: Die Empty) Haha
4:55 You can Do the Same thing as Slingshot with a Resistance Band (But I don’t make Money)
5:26 Changes you should make in your body
5:32 DO NOT Lead With your Chin!
5:52 Superhero pose in top position
6:04 Shoulder Blades in back pockets - Not Pulled Retracted
6:27 How Lower Body Position changes Muscle Focus
6:36 Slight Forward Lean by Crossing legs Behind you for More Chest Activation
6:48 For Triceps, Cross Feet in front of you to stay more erect
7:16 Starting in a shrugged position could make your shoulders angry at you.
7:35 The Descent of the Dip
8:00 Keep Hands Engaged and Push Elbows Out to Descend
8:12 Depth on the Dip?
9:00 How you reverse the Motion Matters Greatly
9:05 Cues For More Reps or More Power In Weighted Dips
9:32 Using Dip to Build Mass On your Chest or as A Chest Finisher
9:51 Dumbbell Fly Your Dips
10:18 Where to touch Your Chest on the Dip
10:40 Weighted Dip Benefits
10:53 Weight Belt or Chain?
11:28 Chains around Waist or Neck?
11:51 Keep Weights Close to your B…ody
12:04 How to attach weight around waist
12:12 Don’t Jump to Bar with Weight Dips
13:16 Outro
Holy crap, you time-stamped so much! Thank you!
Yo man how's the worms going? You seem more alive.
I don't even get dip pain but u just fixed my dip 😂
I didn’t get dip pain until I saw you with that 280 lbs around your hips. lol
But you did just now improve my technique.
Thanks for the post Sir!
👍🏼
I absolutely love you brother! Your positivity and energy are completely infectious. Usually a few TH-cam videos are involved in my nightly wind down. Lol I can't include your videos in that process because I end up getting way too amped. So, here I am at 5 something on a Sunday morning, getting ready to go attack the day. Thank you for being such an integral part of starting my day off with positivity and just all around good energy. I am filled with gratitude because who you are and your willingness to share who you are with us. You are inspiring!
Team grindy-teary-uppy-impingey shoulders represent!
Thanks Brian for the tips. Will try to implement them. Great to see you collaborate with bigger and bigger names. The industry needs more positive people like you.
These tips have really helped with pain. I have used weighted dips for years, but these tips have taken my dips to the next level. Thanks, there's so much quality content on here. God bless.
Something not mentioned here is that some peoples sternums do not actually tolerate dips. These are all helpful tips for people not getting sternum pain but for anyone watching and looking at the comments if your sternum (bone in the middle of your chest) hurts, try a shallower dip only to parellel, if that hurts. You cannot safely perform dips. Find an alternative.
I had that pain but overtime as i got stronger the pain stopped
I gave up dips because of shoulder pain. I shall try again.
With throttle on (more triceps) and elbows out cue, 50% of shoulder pain removed. With the right warm up it's doable.
It’s a good workout but I’m not going to do them again cause the pain I get in my chest I just did them for triceps but I found another workout for triceps and it works better for me.
@@exzesbackup2569 what pain are you getting? Going too deep?
SantomPh probably I got it at my center of my chest but that was a while back tho I don’t do them anymore I found another triceps workout
THis is what I have been looking for for months THANK YOU
Love dips. Never had pain from them, but still several good tips here that I did not know. Great video.
Thank you very much from Rome, Italy, Sir. I had a sore point on my right shoulder because I was using the wrong grip. Now is going much much better.
Two of my favorite things! Table talks and Neversate! Awesome!
Talk about a mindset and being motivated. First week of Brian's program I purchased and a bench PB on first brutal bench day??? What the heck
Haha my man!
@@BrianAlsruheOfficial technically second time through week one, impromptue holiday in between so started again. 15lb increase
All the best to your athletes in the upcoming comp. Hope to see some footage perhaps
Great job!
Oh my God I could not be more excited about you being on the eliteFTS table talk! Super stoked for you Brian and thanks for the awesome video.
Great tips of comparing Dips to Chest Flies and DB Rows. Really helped me understand doing it better now. Thanks!
“let’s go to the gym”
“awright , let’s dip”
Put your hand upon my hip. When I dip you dip we dip
Been using my slingshot for dips as well bench and it’s been a life saver
I have just decided to get these back into my program, I suck at them which means , do them better and more! Thanks Brian !
I do dips on the rings and honestly they feel great! The first I couldn't do 5 in a row, now I can do 40kg
Cool, man! I'm still on 15-20kg range, but working my way up
How long does it take on the rings
Congratulations on the Table Talk podcast. Dave Tate is one of, if not the most, helpful and giving people in the fitness/lifting industry. The amount of knowledge that guy shares is incredible. I'm genuinely happy for you, man.
Chains around the neck
"That's better for selling protein."
Great 😂😂😂😂
thank you brian, this video pointed me to a couple easy tweaks I can make instantly in my ring dip form
This the best dip technique video I’ve seen! Which is awesome because Dips are one of the greatest general pressing assistance Exercises(ohp or bench). Just ask Pat Casey (first guy to bench 600lb, and at a spelt 300lb he added 300 more lb and did dips)
Loved this video man! Weight dips was the number 1 exercise that transformed my upper body
Was gonna perform dips and this popped up. Thanks, Brian. Love from Nepal. ❤❤
First time I heard about the throttle on/off method and it’s AMAZING, thanks!!!
Thank You. You have no idea how much this helped give me hope of someday being able to enjoy this exercise.
Thanks so much. I get shoulder pain during and after dips. I will definitely use these tips.
Man I didn't know the chin/neck/shrug thing, was a thing. Took video of myself doing dips to see and wouldn't you know, I am guilty of the chin /neck/shrug thing.
🌈The more you know.🌈
Thanks for the advice.
I love all of your exercise explanations.
The queues you give are easy to understand and helps to preform proper technique
HELL YEAH BRIAN!!! Congrats on getting to be on elitefts podcast and lifting there! Excited for those videos.
Extremely valuable video. Turning that throttle in, to focus more on the chest is a game changer :)
Great tips for the dip,thanks. Can’t wait to see you on table talk!!!
"chains around the neck are better for selling protein powder" i laughed so hard at this some wee came out! So true Brian mate, love it! i don't get pain from doing dips but there's still some awesome tips that i'll use. thanks mate, keep up the good work. atb Tom from England.
Dips only hurt my ego...😁
Steve Hartkopf 😂😂 I feel this so bad haha
You’ve read my mind!! I was just searching this very topic the other day.
9:51 was the best visual I've ever witnessed..... it's not much pain I feel but tendon snapping and sometimes I hear a pop, that's why I've switch from chest focus to triceps. Your triceps might enjoy an Impossible Dip
Started to watch your vids, and now for me it's like: New training - new PR.
Thanks for all your tips, Brian, you doing amazing job.
Can you give some tips about squats at my home gym, if i don't have a rack, or something like that. At every squat session i need to first press that a little bit heavy barbell above my head, and then after i finish my squats i need to press it the same way again.. But, a front squats a lot easier at that point, but doing just a front squats that probably not that effective..
With love from Russia (Platonic) :)
Are you using a bench with rack for your squats? Many many years ago I did and I agree, front squats seemed easier, until you're rolling the center of gravity too much on your toes. Lower the pins and treat the bench like a box squat to rack and unrack, still walk away for the reps in between
You'll end up getting used to high bar but that pressing overhead isn't good for the shoulders, esp if the bar doesn't quite land in any shelf on your back...
@@LatimusChadimus Well, i have a kind of bench, but it's actually not for a press, it's for a core training, and max weight... something about 130kg.
About my shoulders, yeah, that's true, so i just stopped doing squats with a barbel, and started to do it with a 20kg plate in my hands and 10kg backpack behind me. Of course, after that my biceps pumped as hell, but that's really cool way, just to make sure, that biceps are healthy.
I don't have a rack, or some thing like that. But sometimes i using it for some help, to lift it not from the ground, but from a little bit of height
Thank you for some tips!
Do a hip belt squat standing on two boxes or objects of the same height. Not a pure substitute for the barbell squat but a pretty good alternative. But if i was you i'd buy a set of heavy duty squat stands if i could.
@@garysellars8914As soon as i finish my studying and start making money, then i ll definitely buy a rack or maybe something like that. Until then i ll try to figure that out, because everything i have, that a bench for core training, barbel and 2 dumbbells.
Kinda poor home gym, yeah, but atleast something.
Thanks for a respond!
Yes I notice I can do Dips on boxes/Flat sutfaces, not handles.
It's so frustrating because I LOVE this exercise!
Side Note: I've not watched Brians vids since his injury a while ago. I'd forgotten how good his vids are! 👏🏾
Another tip for those who do heavy dips, have a closed chest. The moment your chest opens, the rep is lost. Awesome video Brian! My favorite fitness channel.
Alright guys, ive been seeing Brian under 200k subscribers for WAY to long. This channel will make you strong! Tell your friends, family, dogs, everyone!
Mr. Alsruhe please keep doing this kind of videos
Thanks for such a great info. I have been always away from dip bar because of those pains
Thank you for all you do Brian! You help keep me so motivated!
This is just what I needed. Trying to work my way from 4 plates to 5 plates on the dips.
Yeah I gave up dips but you got me to do them about a month ago and it made a world of difference.
Make it dip make it dip make it dip make it dip
Awesome tip with the resistance band
Awesome band tip Brian. Used to ring dip often, but whenever I don't so them, my technique and strength goes to crap. I like to ease into it. Plenty of reps, low intensity, higher frequency
Lookin forward to ur workout with dave. Dave was nice enough to sign the elitefts belt that I ordered last week. I was so freakin stoked when I got it!
Fantastic review Brian!
Dave's podcast is great, so I'm looking forward to that one.
Alsruhe and Tate, can't wait!
I really appreciate these videos, I have learned LOTS.
i wear my chains like a backpack: loop behind the neck, in front of shoulders and back behind my lower back again. longer lengths like figure 8 on it's side (infinity sign) with karabiner forming the cross behind mid back. way easier to put on and off, no danger to sensitive zone ;)
Great content, thanks for the timestamps as well!
Great video. Thanks for all the tips.
I've literally waited for this video since i first found Brian years ago on TH-cam.
Ring dips has helped me. Only difficult part balancing yourself.
I tried Brian's front squat suggestion about using lifting straps to keep the bar in the front rack. Man that's so much easier on my hands and wrists.
Just bought a pair of gymnastics rings because I‘m confined to a home gym. I see them in the background in a lot of your videos and was wondering if you have any pointers with ring dips and if adding weight to these is a smart idea?
With them being suspended from your rafters (I'm assuming), just keep an ear out for any structural damage. You should be okay, unless you and the weights total like 600 pounds or something. =P
GERGtheNERD they hang from a steel beam we use to hang engine blocks from so the structure shouldn’t be a problem but I got lingering shoulder/s injuries and from what I can tell, stability plays a big part
@@myfriendben absolutely, my dude. Best course is probably to start weightless/light and see how it feels! Best of luck!
GERGtheNERD Cheers man!
In my experience ring dips are much more difficult then normal dips, might want to start with something like a ring pushup
My Dip Station is an Elderly Walker, lol
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It works!...
Great video, love dips! What do you think of ring dips? Interestingly, they don't bother my shoulders as much as bar dips.
Great video! Some of these tips I've never seen before! Slingshot/resistance band assistance is far better than the conventional way of putting it around your legs.(You can keep your leg hair now!) If I may, could I suggest that you do your dips looking forward Mr. Alsruhe? In my (rather limited) experience, it has helped me push more weight, be more stable, and protect my shoulders. Would love to hear you thoughts, and keep up the good work!
That would be craning your neck under load similar to the deadlift. I would highly advise that you don’t do that. Unless you are just talking about keeping your neck neutral, then I would agree. But if you just look straight forward, you are sticking pressure on your spine it doesn’t want
@@BrianAlsruheOfficial I'm sorry if I wasn't very clear. In my mind I was suggesting that you look at a point on the floor in front of you. My bad. I agree that craning your neck is a terrible idea on dips.
Thanks Brian I have a weight vest that I put on and do my dips with on parallel bars, what I was going to say how ever is I am going to stop bent over rows because my lower back gives me nothing but trouble, but I just bought some viking press handles and I will have to go with that and put more weight on the vest for dips , not sure what to do about my lower back pain , it is arthritic because I am 57 years old now , but have no intention of taking my foot off the accelerator pedal, that is not an option , I shall just find a way .
Dips are easier on my shoulders than bench press ..
Great vid I regard dips as squats for upper body
Such a cool video Brian. I can only do about 6 full dips so also work on holding the bottom position isometrically for time. I can do it for around 40 seconds so now want to add weight. What length of chain is best? I see people threading it through a pool noodle so it doesn't dig into their back however i'd prefer to just use the chain if that's ok just like in the video. I bought a dip stand and apart from my olympic barbell i think it's the best piece of equipment i've ever owned.
A 6 plate dip Amazing. Awesome video and excellant tips.
That's exactly why I'm here. The first reps on the bar dip hurt my right elbow. Eventually the elbow warms up and it goes away. But then the pain comes back at night when I'm trying to sleep. I'm agitating the ligaments / joints in my elbow with this exercise. So that's what I'm watching you now.
Overspeed eccentrics may help here?
@@dallysinghson5569 I'll look that up, thanks!
With +3 plates, how do u avoid nut clinching and/or inner thigh pinching?
It's kinda funny to do a sumo cowboy waddle walk tho
Great vid!
Have you ever used accomodating resistance for dips?
Thanks bro!
I've always been good at doing dips with no pain. I would however love to see a video about inner elbow pain during chins and pulls. I've do all sorts of stretches for the area, wear all kinds of compression cuffs (thanks Mark Bell :), partially grabbing a band (thanks Jeff Cavalier) and I still get some degree of pain on the inner side of my left elbow.
Forearm extensors work
One thing, I think it was Christian Thibaudeau who mentioned this, if you stick your legs out more kind of like an L-sit, it will shift your upper body to be in a position to hit your chest more. I find this to be true.
dips are fricking amazing, wheter you do them for big 100 rep cluster set or singles
Good timing. I"m trying to build my dips and OHP up. Dips are aggravating my right shoulder and tendon. I can do sets of 10 when warmed up, but the inflammation afterwards is aggravating.
Same my right shoulder hurts. Has it got better for you?
I love dips! Especially the rings/TRX ones. They're way harder but IMO, way more beneficial. What do you think about them?
Great video! There are so many people leading with their chin, and also saying you shouldn't put your legs back together. I always knew they were both strange suggestions. I never thought it was a good idea to perform neck extensions with dips, and then I noticed since day one that putting my legs back together helped me use my chest better. Thanks again!
Thank you
Following your channel with hopes of solving costochondritis / Tietze's syndrome. Had this shit since August and tried rest, prescribed anti-inflammatory medicine, light training and rehab, hard training, chiropractor's but nothing seems to work. Seen pretty much no improvement at all. I used to train every day but got sick during the summer. Went back to the gym and did some light dips and something happened in the first set which caused immediate pain which never went away ever since. Getting all kinds of anxiety from this. My back is probably stiff and my posture bad but its just that I got it in connection with doing dips which makes me think something pop out of place or so. Also hade a surgery a few years ago around my sternum which might have created stiffness and scar tissue there aswell.. Please reach out if anyone has any help.
Good video as usual lots of good information. Quick question I suffer from Dyspraxia (fine motor control issues i.e. Clumsy Child Syndrome. Whilst not dip specific on complex movements like pull ups I find for love nor money I can't trigger the moment to pull myself down to lift my body up. It's not strength, but wondered if there's any work around to get the mind triggering the right connection. I have watched your videos and whilst other videos have helped other movements my pull ups are still none existent.
I might need a little bit more information brother but there’s most likely a way you can pull this off
@@BrianAlsruheOfficial At the moment I end up going into a hanging leg raise rather than pull up although I tell my body I want to pull myself up. I usually sub them for lat pull downs at the moment to get some work in. It's not wholly strength - but there's three things I've tried to do since childhood that I can't and I think it's motor control - might be wrong - Skipping, Pull ups, Chin Ups.
That is so interesting to me. Not downplaying what you’re going through at all, but I would love to work with someone who has your condition to see what we could get them to do
@@BrianAlsruheOfficial no worries. Just wired differently.. Sounds trivial but things like: doing shoe laces and buttons are much more time consuming. Have got strength to a degree can Bench 100 kg, Deadlift 150 kg, Squat 130 kg Overhead Press 70 kg with good control and safety so it's not a strength problem.
Also @brian alsruhe I've dropped an email off to you to explain my background a bit better rather than leave too much open on here.
Any reason for feeling a grinding in my sternum? I have a messed up shoulder but dips dont really bother it. Just my chest.
Holy spit, 6 PLATES on the dip???? Dang man, your bench must be huge! Great job my man!
Thanks brother! My best so far has been 505
bench and dips cause me clavicle pain, is that an ac joint issue? weak mid back issue?
Have seen 2 different guys fracturing their sternum/clavicles doing dips in front of me. as a dips/chin guy,i gotta admit that they are not for everybody.anatomic differences are real on that.
I'm doing weighted dips but my elbows feel funny. Not painful, just a weird tickling. Should I care about it?
Thankyoooooou finalllly
Do tricep dips still target the chest a lot
Grundy teary uppy position 🤣🤣
hey, Whenever i dip my inner chest hurts. Feels like bone hurt not muscle. So i avoid doing dips. I used to love them
A dog leash can also be a good improvised weight belt.
slingshot is great if you get pain during dips too
YES!
When I did dips twice a week my bench and OHP steadily increased. When I got sick of doing them and stopped for 2 months both went down. Do the math!
Can i overload weighted dips with using band same time?
I suppose you could with range of motion is so small the third accommodating resistance really want to do what you were looking for it to do
Going too deep was my problem all kinds of sternum and shoulder pain
Belted dips, great way to decompress the low back
What happens to me is that I do painlessly all the reps but once I get out of the parallels my left clavicle starts hurting for 3-4 seconds
I could be very wrong, but it sounds like maybe there’s something going on with the hand placement, mobility or technique or where you are bringing your chest down to. Because you really shouldn’t have pain like that after a couple reps
Thanks God i found this video