8 Dips Mistakes and How to Fix Them

This blows the AthleanX video on Dips out of the water. It put the “science back in dips”

“Perseverate”! Not only am I my making my dips better, but my english as well. 🤙. This is also why I watch doctor Mike.

I always go as deep as I can, never had anyone complain. 😀🥹😥

Dips are one of my favorite exercises and I can load them heavy... much heavier than it looks like I can!
I intentionally lean forward for lower chest development, but honestly I only feel it in my triceps lol
I wish I could load my pull ups as heavy as my dips tho.

There is an awesome isotremic, hold the up position, body straigth and lean back, your triceps will burn...and well, if you look for triceps and not chest, I think the best advice is to dont do it hollow, dont obly retract the scapullas at the bottom but mantain it trough the whole movement

Legend has it Charlie is still doing dips to this day.

“A dip pull-up movement” we have a name for that…. It’s a muscle up, and yes, it would be doing muscle ups on dip bars…. Might need some creative hand placement, but it might work….

This video is confusing. If for pec you would rather bench, then surely for triceps you would rather isolate. Why bother using a compound movement that involves shoulder and arm adduction just for triceps?

“Yeah…. Weird Look at your dick yeahhh “ ….. how about some female specific training advice….. this is great to listen to while doing housework

Very nice and helpful video thank you!

love this content and as a bonus LMAOO bro this is hilarrious

ive got a friend who plays football who weighs 230 and does sets of four on dips with 90+lbs

Don't smile Charlie.....

Like to hear a good refresher on my favorite exercise I’m 59 been doing regular and weighted dips for decades.

😂😂😂😂😂😂

Poor Charlie, I bet he had to have a lie down after all those dips.

Thanks uncle Mike. Yeah, that was meant to sound creepy

I am sure the chest is the prime mover in the dip.

"felt it in my soul" hahaha

I decided to do dips with my feet L shaped and something like a backwards dip. My shoulder hurts now

"Look at your own dick, ohh yeah thats awesome" lmao

"I felt it in my soul a lot..." 😄🥴💯

Great video. Since getting heavier as I’ve got older it’s been much easier to make many of these mistakes, due to the generally high demand of this exercise. Excessive depth is definitely an error, like to feel that stretch but if I’m honest it’s actually omitting tension right at the bottom and not allowing the ascent. The ‘slip’ you mention here was perfect for the mind muscle connection in future training sessions. I’ll be on the lookout for this

Any advice on shoulder blades - do you drop shoulder blades
What about the scapula position should you retract

Thank you 🙏 this really help💪

Just started dips today. More for strength than for looks, but it's still good to know why I felt my shoulders and not so much my triceps.

Squat, Bench Press, Pec Dec

Gotta appreciate these videos and even more dr Mike's humour 👌

Excellent and helpful video! I can personally vouch for what you said in the end; I do 10 sets of 20 free weight dips in between supersets of various angles on the bench press (incline to decline or visa versa to change it up), and if I want more pump, then I simply shorten the time between sets, or contrarily, If I’m reaching failure too soon towards the end, then I simply give a few extra moments (burn plus control is my key).

For added toughness, add in sets of chest butterflies in between the benches and dips. (You’ll be a machine in no time!)

I also always SQUEEZE the heck out of the tricep at the top of the motion, but now I’m also going to try to incorporate more slow burn control on the way down thanks to this video.

Cheers!

I like charlies smile 🤭

Love your videos, after training for close to 30 years I comento find out that I barely knew anything.

Thankssss

I can’t lie this video is the real deal literally 100% correct information

Me:" Did you feel it in your lats?"
Dr. Mike: "Nah, I feel it in my soul a lot..."

Not enough Flexibility in my shoulders gets me on this one. My fault lol.

These videos are AWESOME!

The master shifu. The whisperer.

Underrated exercise

I felt that set in my soul. Great description of 5x5s.

No one can ever accuse this person of not being knowledgeable.

Dr. 💉💊

Would you count tricep dips as part of your weekly chest volume? Or if executed correctly does the chest not assist enough to go towards its weekly volume?

You’re awesome 👏🏻

I do regular dip half and quarters as a former gymnast, one thing I learned is never lock your arms up. You will fuck up your elbows. Stop slightly of a lockout.

How about a video on Bulgarian Split Squats?

John Meadows advocates partial range on dips

Still a lifting noob and I'm definitely leaning forward too much. Can feel it a bit in my triceps but also a fair amount in my chest. I get to barely more than a 90 degree in my elbow (similar to in the video) so hopefully I can go lower once I'm not leaning as much.

Thanks for the video as I've been wondering what I'm doing wrong as it seems too easy without really fatiguing my triceps.

"Did you feel that in your quads? No I felt it in my soul alot." haha what a true statement.