Dips.....

[dhcsim]

In an older post Cathe had informed someone that doing the dips were a very effective exercise for the tri's. What I want to know is how to make them harder. I am already lifting most of my body weight. I do them w/ my ankles on the floor. I am working them twice a week. Dips, overhead extensions and one arm kickbacks are what I am doing in heavy sets. I am using the curling bar for the extensions and dumbbells for the kickbacks. Thanks for the help.

 

[Fit_mommy]

In one of Cathe's vids she mentions putting a loaded barbell on your lap during dips to make them harder....

HTH!

 

[dhcsim]

But it will slide down my legs..LOL. Maybe if I bend my legs so that my knees are up? Let me go try........ Okay, that works. Thanks

 

[amyg]

Cross your legs... so that your weight is only on one leg. (as if you were sitting in a chair with bent legs and one crossed over like you were getting your obliques in ab work)}(

raise one leg while doing the dips}(

do them one-armed }(

 

[Imafitnessfreak]

You could try using straight leg with feet elevated on a sturdy chair.

Wendy is correct...it was BC that Cathe suggests using a loaded barbell.

 

[dhcsim]

amyg- Your into torture aren't you? LOL

fitnessfreak- That would work also.

I don't want to try too much at once or I'll hurt myself.

 

[honeybunch1]

This is how I learned how to do them - and it's the best way short of using a dip station. When you advance with these, you can put extra weight in your lap, also. Your legs are elevated, so that makes a nice "table" for a weight plate.

"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt." Mark Twain ;-)

 

[Fitnessfreak366]

Try one-arm tricep dips, Cathe does these in High Step Challenge or High Step Training Advanced I believe. They are hard. I usually do them (with both arms) with 35 lbs. in my lap, that really makes a difference.

 

[Aquajock]

I like to do dips with my hands on an old living room chair and my heels on an 8" - 12" platform, legs fairly elongated, with a 50-lb barbell across the hips. The combination of the elevated feet, elongated legs (both of which keep the barbell from sliding down) AND the increased weightload are wonderful.

A-Jock

 

[allwildgirl]

A-Jock - my jaw just dropped

 

[acatalina]

50 lb barbell. Wow. Try a one legged dip one leg bent and one straight out front.I can't imagine extra weights,especially in gymstyle chest and tri's.
I am impressed aquajock.
Anne
http://www.picturetrail.com/acatalina

 

[toastythemosty]

Ya'll have some wonderful ideas on how to spice things up doing dips! Will have to try some of these. Thanks

Charlotte~~

 

[SRP]

Oh my. Looks like I get to add some new dips to my workout tonight! These sound wonderful.

 

[beemerjen]

Sounds painful! I think I would fall through the chair and the weight would crush my neck!! You go girl!!!
Jen

 

[kathryn]

Use two chairs, put feet on one. And stack your feet (change which foot is on top mi-way through a set or do even numbers of sets) so more of your weight is transfered to your arms from your feet.

 

[dhcsim]

I am definitely going to be printing up this thread so that in the future as I progress in this area, I can apply them. I am having such a good day. I cleaned out my file cabinet, my office desk and did 3 loads of laundry already and it's only 9:50. I am only going to do the treadmill today. My SIL is taking me on a hike tomorrow. She hasn't told me which mountain yet. I hope she knows CPR or has 911 programmed into her phone.LOL ;( I have never hiked before.

 

[Imafitnessfreak]

Holy crap...both legs elevated with a 50 Lb. barbell!!! I would require medical assistance just to get "set up"...how on earth do you fanagle around to get that set up???

 

[kathryn]

>Holy crap...both legs elevated with a 50 Lb. barbell!!! I
>would require medical assistance just to get "set up".

I envision myself getting into position, then having my shoulders pop out of the top of my torso when I try the first rep!! Body goes down...shoulders and arms stay up!

 

[Aquajock]

Those of you who do weighted dips with elevated feet and elongated legs, be warned: this has the danger of totally improving your push-up endurance and performance too. I found that as I added on 8-rep sets of these weighted dips (on Sundays I've worked up to a first set of 32, die for a minute and then another set of 24), my ability to add reps onto my push-up sets has also gone way up. We always underestimate the contribution of the triceps in any push-up work regardless of the hand placement, and the triceps dip is the exercise that most closely mimics the triceps recruitment in push-ups.

A-Jock