The dips or repulsion to the parallel bars
- What is dips and why?
Dips are definitely one of the bodybuilding exercises at the most effective body weight to take muscle mass at the upper body and especially at the pectoral muscles (lower part) and triceps. This exercise requires to have parallel bars or a Roman chair if possible adjustable in order to realize the movement. - How do I make dips to parallel bars?
Choose a device that allows you to have your arms extended with a gap slightly greater than the width of the shoulders in order to allow the body to move.
Stretch your arms without locking your elbows.
Slowly lower your body by loosening the muscles of your arms and shoulders. Continue to descend until you feel the stretch at the shoulder joint.
If you use a neutral or supine plug, your elbows will point backwards. If you use the pronation, they will spread outward. With the bars forming an angle of 45 °, they will orient themselves in this direction.
When you are completely down, you are then truly at the starting position. Keep your elbows up and slowly, raise your body. Keep pushing until your arms are stretched. Do not swing the body to help lift it.
At the top, inhale and blow slowly down to the lowest position. Then, inhale and hold your breath. When you have passed the most tricky point during the extension, exhale. Inhale again when your arms are stretched and start again.
Special dips program
The dips: one of the simplest exercises for pectorals and triceps but also one of the most effective. Since the appearance of modern gymnasiums equipped with training equipment of all kinds, there is little practice of gymnastic type exercises, that is to say carried out essentially without loads, with body weight as sole resistance. Yet dips are a versatile movement that can be used as part of many goals.
Dips for pectorals
To emphasize the lower part of the pectorals, the dips are an excellent alternative to developed declined. With your hands wide apart (more apart than the width of the shoulders), make repulsions with the torso tilted towards the ground (bent forward) so that most of the stress is on the pectorals. Here, the angle of movement is crucial: if you feel that the chest muscles do not work, you are not enough leaned forward.Dips for triceps
When the hands are close together and the body is as vertical as possible, the pectoral muscles are much less solicited for the benefit of the triceps. To isolate these even more, you can make dips between two benches. Place yourself between two benches, the feet resting on the front one, and the hands on the one at the back: it is on the latter that the weight of the body bears. Descend until you feel a stretch of the triceps, then go up with an extension of the arms. If your body weight is not sufficient resistance, place one or more discs on the top of your thighsGetting Strong
To gain strength in pectorals and triceps, you can perform dips with ballast with short series. Hang a heavy dumbbell at a weight lifting belt around the waist.
Dips exhaust muscles
You can make dips at the end of a session of pectorals or triceps to "grill" your muscles. Ask a partner to hold your legs (flexed legs) when you can no longer carry out an extension alone and go down alone as slowly as possible. You can also use a dipster that allows you to dose the help you need. These machines are particularly interesting for degressive series. The next time you go to the room to work the pectorals and triceps, do not neglect the dips: this is one of the best exercises. To submit, from time to time, your pectorals and triceps to a treatment of shock, here is a short program of musculation, but effective and which includes only dips.