dips/chin-ups

Krancjar

Just wondering what people's opinions are on dips and chin-ups as part of a weights programm? useful?

Vegeta

Yes, I find them good and so do a lot of others

I would include them in any routine I would do.

dioltas

I think they are both very good. I don't do dips though. I do pullups every session. Trying to build up to 3 x 8. I love them, and they're a compound exercise aswell. I do them instead of bicep curls.

Krancjar

I have been doing both since the end of sept. and have progressing well in both in terms of reps but not really noticing huge difference in arm size. btw i do the wide-grip chins, i stopped the close in ones when i could do 3x10...

the drifter

dips i cant do.....they wreck my shoulders....chins i do alot of for varied grips and have seen a huge carry over onto my bench in terms of stability with the weight i would highly recommend them as part of bench assistance...

Zamboni

Krancjar wrote: »

Just wondering what people's opinions are on dips and chin-ups as part of a weights programm? useful?

Absolutely.

I was once blind but now I can see...

corribdude

Great exercises. Although dips can be really tough on the shoulders when you are doing them with heavy weights.

WolfForager

I do dips twice out of my 3 weekly workout, do them on a ball for some additional corework! They're great imo, i follow up with some cable pull downs.

I do about 10, 7, 5 pull ups atm on the nights in between my gym sessions with some core work thrown in after, working for 3 sets of 10! Nothing beats them really, my pushups are now better after i started doing chinups too, never a bad thing!