Showing posts with label dips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dips. Show all posts

Mar 10, 2009

Oct 5, 2007

Dips

The dip is an exercise used in strength training. The person hangs from a dip bar with their arms straight, bends their arms to a 90 degree angle (thus lowering their body), and then slowly returns to their starting position of straight arms (lifting their body's weight). The difficulty of this exercise is increased by widening the distance that the person has to reach. Difficulty can be decreased by using an assisted-dip machine with a counterweight that helps push the body up.

Dips primarily train the triceps, and will also build the latissimi dorsi and pectorals with wide arm training.

Usually dips are done on a dip bar. Lifting the eintire body weight. To make the exercise heavier, you can hang weights onto your weight lifting belt. A lighter dip varitaion is "Bench Dips", where you do dips between two benches. Put your hands on one bench and you feet on another bench in front of you.

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Sep 30, 2007

Know Your Body: Pectorals

The Pectoralis major is a thick, fan-shaped muscle, situated at the upper front of the chest. It makes up the bulk of the chest muscles in men. The Pectoralis minor is a thin, triangular muscle, situated at the upper part of the chest, beneath the Pectoralis major.

The following exercises target and work "the pecs:"

  • Bench press, with various bench angles (flat, incline, and decline)
  • Press up
  • Dips

Isolation exercises include:

  • Flyes or Flies
  • Cable Crossovers
  • "Pec Deck" machines



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