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Upper body exercises to add to chins and dips

  • 16-04-2008 4:04am
    #1
    MrBaseball
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    I've been doing weights for quite a while and am in good shape.

    Recently I've just been doing weighted chins and dips for my upper body, since they're my favourite exercises and I enjoy doing them. However, I'm now thinking that perhaps I should throw in some other exercises on different days, in case the chins and dips are missing something.

    I'm not sure exactly which exercises would be good in addition to chins and dips. I was thinking maybe upright rows and shoulder presses?

    I already do squats and deadlifts a couple of times a week. I cycle for about an hour and a half each day commuting to college, which includes some pretty steep hills.

    My goal isn't competitive bodybuilding or anything lofty like that, so if I'm missing out something minor, it's not really a massive deal to me. I'm training more for fitness, functional strength(whatever that means) and an attractive body. Perhaps something akin to this dude ,since he seems to have a similar body type to me anyway.

    So, are there any upper body excerices that I might regret not doing down the line if I focus on weighted chins and dips?


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  • #2
    MrBaseball
    Closed Accounts Posts: 58 ✭✭MrBaseball


    Ok, let me rephrase that.

    Are there any upper body muscles that weighted chins and dips won't have a decent effect on??

    Apart from lower back(which I'm doing deadlifts for) I can't really think of anything.

    I'm going for a minimalist approach, but I just want to make sure I'm not neglecting anything important.


  • #3
    rubadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,386 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    You sound very similar to myself, goals, cycling, chins, dips etc, very similar. I got rings for my chin up bar, check www.ringtraining.com or my signature link on how to make some. The dips on rings use more muscles, since you have to stabilise yourself. You can do flyes to work the chest differently, ab rollouts on the rings, tricep pushups. upside down body weight shrugs.

    I have been doing negative work lately and have got a fair bit stronger, while not eating a lot at the same time. Yesterday I was doing 7 reps of single arm overhead presses with 26.5kg, which was a good increase for me.

    Get some standing military presses in, or dumbbell overhead presses, they work more stabilising muscles,

    My chinning has gotten better from negatives, doing ~12reps with 30kg on a dip belt. I stand on a box in the highest chin position and lower myself.

    Also try some pullups. Lateral raises, though dips on rings would work the lats very well


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