Summary: Dips are one of the best upper body isolated exercises that can be done at home. Here is a detailed guide on the benefits of doing dips.
Excuses for not being healthy can be numerous. You don’t have a gym membership, the workload is too much, life is going south, hell is falling loose, etc. Seriously, none of these are reasons good enough to keep you from achieving a healthy body and improve quality of life. Drop your pseudo guards and just leave your couch. You won’t need any fancy equipment or an isolated bunker to get strong. You can get started from exactly where you are.
Dips are one of the most intense and effective isolated exercises to develop upper body strength. Just like push ups and pull ups, you can get started with dips anytime, anywhere. While doing dips you use your body weight as resistance to build your triceps. Most people simply overlook the benefits of doing dips. You should not be one of those ignorant people. Due to their unique mechanical movements, dips built tremendous strength and upper body mass. You can do dips at a gym using equipments but if you are not going to a gym, then also you can do them at home. This guide to do dips at home will provide you all the information you need to get started.
Why Focus On Dips?
Muscle engagement is a major reason why dips should be part of your exercises. They are compound push exercise that engages your triceps, shoulders, forearms, lower back and chest. When you do dips using your body weight as a resistance, your muscles are forced to be contracted throughout the exercise, making dips on of the most effective upper body strength exercises.
The variation that can be achieved in dips is also quite large. Just by adjusting the arm handles closer or far apart, you can work on your grip width, target different sections of pectoral and intercostal muscles.
Benefits of Dips
Being one of the few upper body close kinetic chain exercises, dips work on opposing muscle groups simultaneously during lowering and lifting of the body. Here are the main benefits of performing dips at home:
Build massive upper body
Dips are very challenging for your upper body muscles, that involve not only your triceps and forearms, but the shoulder, chest and lower back as well. As you can easily add more weight to your dips, this progressive overloading prevents you from hitting a plateau where your muscles stop growing.
Unlimited weight addition
Dips are challenging in the beginning as you build strength to overcome the resistance of your body weight, but once you are comfortable with your body weight, you can easily add more weight using a dip belt. This is why dips at home can give you upper body strength just like gym machines.
Better than push ups
Push up is an excellent bodyweight exercise and closely related to dips as it is also a closed kinetic chain exercise. However, push up utilizes only a fraction of your body weight, but dips use your body as a resistance much better. This is why push ups have limited benefits when compared to dips.
Saliently builds lockout strength
How many times have you struggled to maintain your range of motion to the final few inches while doing the bench press or the overhead press? The reason this failure is because of the lack of elbow lockout strength.
Dips force your body to build this strength as a dip repetition cannot be completed with elbow lockout. Doing dips significantly improves the lockout strength that further helps in other bodybuilding exercises.
What we have shared with you is a limited and a generalized guide on the benefits of doing dips, but the impact on your body strength is much more.
