howcome no one here does dips?

[Jinn]

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.

 

[Soshyopathe]

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.

 

[Ricky]

Hey thanks for reminding me. I want to add these back to my arm routine.

I like dips, they are tough and seem t obe more of a functional strength exercise (especially for those gymnasts out there)

 

[The Great 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.

 

[Drug_L0rd]

i never said i don't do em.

hehe, they are a great exercise to do. after i do my heavy sets i just do a set or two of dips of 15+ reps. they are great.

 

[DJ Girevik]

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??]

I'm currently doing chest and triceps on mondays and I do dips after i am done the chest porition of my workout.

 

[PiNkMaGGiT]

erm... what are dips? Can somebody please explain them to me cause they sound like a good exercise. Thanks

 

[OddTech]

Dip at its best.

Check it out here:

http://www.exrx.net/WeightExercises/Triceps/WtTriDip.html