Why Weighted Dips Are Useless

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[@Ello3342]

Weighted dips are one of the best exercises

[@ogunna4074]

Mike mentzer-

[@zarachosauce]

Facts

[@davepazz580]

But are they necessary...

[@Ello3342]

@@davepazz580 depends on your goals/standards in life

[@LeonNeon20]

@@Ello3342exactly, their not necessary

[@921FM]

That's like saying you injured yourself doing a heavy squat then promoting no squatting.. Weighted dips got me stronger thus allowing me to build more muscle Just gotta play it safe

[@jakemccoy]

A bad injury changes a man at his core. Comeback here after you snap something.

[@mystery_mman]

Actually I was trying weighted dips for a month, I didn't see any improvement in my regular dips. Instead I got the same injury as he said. Edits :- I took comment section seriously and took advice from all the replies of good people, my dips has increased very good and weighted dips also I'm doing with good stability and no pain at all hitting the chest and muscles at point. I'm feeling my chest and triceps have grown muscular. Conclusion :- This Austin just says bad whatever him can't do good and not trying to fix the form and what him doing wrong, many of his shorts are self obsessed.

[@bigmics]

exactly loool

[@sloppy1287]

@@mystery_mman^ what he said

[@sloppy1287]

not this mf exactly lol, i didnt see him 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@gregorypigeon1329]

"I got injured like a dumbass si don't do dips guys "

[@DivineLogos]

He means don't do them daily.

[@gregorypigeon1329]

@@DivineLogos and I mean... Humor?

[@DivineLogos]

@@gregorypigeon1329 Oh okay.

[@rednaxela5960]

Shit wasnt funny

[@gregorypigeon1329]

@@rednaxela5960 than don't laugh or giggle and move on😁

[@glynnermanoz3324]

weighted dips is squat of upper body 👑

[@ruan441]

Like Mike Mentzer once said.

[@reganboulton1868]

@@ruan441mike was wrong about most things tho tbf

[@xxxxxxxxxxxxxOxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

@@reganboulton1868 I followed Mike's advices for years now, never been injured, built a decent physique and still making strong progress in the gym. You don't know what you are talking about.

[@Georged1y]

@@reganboulton1868He was correct on most things, just not on the exact specifics or more in depth nuances of the things he talked about, but relative to his time, he was absolutely great. But in relation to dips/ weighted dips, it’s been proven they are an amazing movement that builds power and develops the triceps, lower chest area, etc amazingly.

[@nicko1738]

Weighted dips > bench press

[@Zack_ChillIng]

Nah

[@madden7732]

Both are great tbh

[@AidenLongo]

Dips are great, but for chest, bench press is way better than dips bro

[@colinherzog1067]

@@AidenLongo maybe for your lower chest… which is much smaller and needs way less stimulation than your upper chest. Even if you arch your back a lot you are compromising your posture on the bench press. Your shoulders are not meant to press from a flat posture. They are supposed to retract. This opens up your upper chest, a problem most recreational body builders seem to have.

[@joshuamclean4588]

Both are good exercises. Both/either can have better carry over than the other to specific strength skills depending what ur goal is.

[@dark-brandon]

Costochondritis is caused by physical strain from repeated exercise. You could've just as easily developed this injury doing any chest focused exercise. It's also a relatively harmless injury that will usually go away without treatment. I'm not sure why it cost you months of progress. By your logic, any heavy repeated movement should be avoided for injury risk. Being in the gym over time increases your risk of injury in general. If you're training long enough and hard enough, you'll eventually get some bumps and bruises. If you're not training like an idiot most of those bumps and bruises will be very minor in severity. This video is fear mongering.

[@gamerx30]

I wholeheartedly agree and I’m 45 and been doing weighted dips for years just slow and controlled wins the race bro💯

[@fk9277]

If he slowed them down instead of worrying about tying more plates to his cock, then I dont think CC is going to be an issue. I actually like the way the exercise stretches me out when I get it. I don't do dips much because I don't like them, but I do them when I need to sort my ribs out.

[@TreyTheDestroyer]

True but dips place more pressure on the sternum and the joints connected to it and are far more likely to result in Costo

[@tr1pl741]

Been doing dips for years. This one exercise gave me upper body press strength and great gains in my chest and triceps. One man's bad experience does do not apply to all. We are all built differently.

[@ScorpionSuerte]

It's a common injury if going very heavy. It happened to me too

[@Bigbiceps301]

@@ScorpionSuertehow much weight were y doing

[@ScorpionSuerte]

@@Bigbiceps301 70kg

[@researchproject034]

@@ScorpionSuerteCould lack of shoulder mobility be the culprit? I just maxed out at 70KG on weighted dips and I'm fine

[@ScorpionSuerte]

@@researchproject034 So was I, until I wasn't. I did indeed hurt my shoulder too, but the sternum is because our bodies aren't supposed to withstand that amount of pressure at a weak point. Will you get injured? Probanly not. But if you do get injured from any exercise, this will probably be the one. It's up to you to take that risk.

[@anabolicollie]

Weighted dips are a great exercise when performed with correct form. There are some people who just tell everyone what they want to hear. This guy is a prime example

[@tesleemhussein5217]

He only got hurt after years so it wasnt bad form. Besides if you do a 1000 perfect form pushups you'll get injuries. My point is there is over doing it

[@anabolicollie]

@@tesleemhussein5217 that’s why you take deloads. Also, this is the same guy who talked about how creatine HCL was so much better because it didn’t give you water weight like creatine monohydrate then proceeds to try to sell shit to people. I don’t trust what he says

[@stavrosbeats2013]

​@@tesleemhussein5217bro what are you talking about. Show someone who does street lifting his form on this video and I bet they'll laugh at the guy

[@tesleemhussein5217]

@@stavrosbeats2013 I'm not knowledgeable about street calisthenics so what's wrong with his form? If it was that bad how'd it take so long for injury or was he lucky?

[@stavrosbeats2013]

@@tesleemhussein5217 look at his form at the 22nd second. He is leaning way to much. In street lifting you do dips by keeping your legs on a 90 degree angle to the ground that way the load is shared across all major upper body pushing muscles instead of all the stress being on the chest

[@ipreferlotion3868]

Bro I got big asf off weighted dips tf outta here

[@uhtredofbebbanburg5493]

Bad video. I can dip almost six plates and it has massively built my chest and triceps since I do it. I have never benched and I can bench 3 plates because of it. It has huge carriover to pushing skills, especially dinamic skills. It is very easy to set up and proggresively overload. It is badass and impressive, like the weighted pull up

[@Leon-qt5bm]

Nothing to add here, just facts

[@FullKitBanker]

6 plates is mental! Are you still doing dips today my friend

[@uhtredofbebbanburg5493]

@@FullKitBanker Thanks man! Yes, but I'm now doing them after HSPUs and incline presses, so I'm prioritizing other movements in which I want to get better. One day we'll get that 7 plate dip! Lol

[@victorfalola2754]

Did he just say weighted dips are great for beginners?😂 When beginners can barely do body weight dips

[@justinabraham7291]

he's dumb 😂

[@rednaxela5960]

Weigjted dips are like the easiest weighted callisthenics exercise

[@m_zero3009]

⁠@@rednaxela5960comparatively yes it is one of the easiest but by itself its still quite hard, a lot of beginners wouldnt be able to weighted maybe even bodyweight

[@ruan441]

@@rednaxela5960 For skinny beginners only. You really need a lower body fat for weighted dips being a beginner. There is a good reason skinny people can do more than 30 push ups with ease.

[@IANCHEAHEEYANNMoe]

​@@rednaxela5960weighted push ups? weighted planks?

[@m.saqibansari7988]

Man I love doing weighted dips

[@mauricioreyesrubio2993]

I love weighted dips😢

[@helpingyou6771]

Then do it dont listen to this dork

[@blacklyfe5543]

Keep doing them me too

[@AESTHETIC-PERFORMANCE]

Don't worry I actually have the same thing Austin is talking bout, but im still able to do them. Weighted DIPS are GODLY. But..... be sure that you don't progress in weight to quickly. Get more reps in. Then if absolutely necessary. At 5 lbs. Here and there.

[@davepazz580]

The problem is some people like the weight more than they do the actual movement and start overemphasizing the weight too much...

[@AESTHETIC-PERFORMANCE]

@@davepazz580 exactly bro can't agree more

[@davidanimats7257]

L take bro dips>>>>>

[@matthewblack9146]

Weighted dips are probably the best calisthenics exercise tbh you’re just not built for them I guess

[@rudyragner1322]

Pull uns with rings is the best

[@deondrehampton3861]

So in other words I probably shouldn't be doing +150 lb weighted dips while I'm sitting at a body weight of 150 lb.

[@rafah-eltalle8690]

You should build up to a 400lb total my guy.

[@davepazz580]

Or you probably shouldn't be doing weighted dips at all...

[@deondrehampton3861]

​@@rafah-eltalle8690sounds like a plan

[@jackandrews7821]

Or do them but warm up properly, maintain good form, allow for appropriate rate of progressive overload and most importantly focus and keep tight on your recovery between workouts. People hurt themselves on long trustwd exercises all the time, it's almost never the fault of the exercise.

[@harrybaals2549]

there is absolutely nothing wrong with being able to add your bodyweight in plates so long as you progressed up to it steadily

[@nicopl3902]

That’s like getting injured from bench pressing then making a video about bench pressing being useless

[@jaystrongh1813]

Weighted dips are great ,just make sure your using proper form

[@yeahboi5850]

Weighted dips and incline bench for the chest

[@lukeprice7782]

Im still trying to get off the assisted dip let alone weighted dips lol

[@christopherds3880]

disregard this guy. Keep at it bro

[@serupaalaadipa]

Weighted dips is greatest exercise of upper body

[@jakemccoy]

Do you think you were not properly warmed up?

[@tylergary5953]

He 100% was not properly warmed up. This video is a classic social media video. Attention grabbing headline, followed by biased inaccurate information

[@pen-sk3dx]

Yep pretty much this “weighted dips are bad but my program is good so buy it”

[@davepazz580]

@@pen-sk3dx If you look beyond the headline, you'll see he never actually says to never dip again... just that doing weighted dips with his *max* weight was "useless" (and I agree with that).

[@damonlewis8744]

Interesting. Personally I love dips on the rings and I don’t plan on giving them up anytime soon. This begs one question though. Are you gonna update Beyond Bodyweight and Limitless Athletes to reflect your recent experiences and training philosophies?

[@Sehnsuchtversteckt123]

"it's great for beginners"

[@kranx2690]

Right? I been in the gym for more than 6 months and im maybe hitting 5 clean reps lmao

[@Sehnsuchtversteckt123]

@@kranx2690 yea and he said weighted dips, not normal dips which is even worse for beginners

[@dark-brandon]

Beginners are lucky to do assisted dips, let alone weighted, tf is he talking about. 😂

[@Sehnsuchtversteckt123]

@@dark-brandon exactly

[@tanner2924]

I’ve had that same injury and it definitely wasn’t weighted dips that caused it

[@kamarmclean5518]

What caused it?

[@tanner2924]

@@kamarmclean5518 heavy contact to the chest/lung area

[@_spider_man]

Ian barseagle whould laugh at this 😂😂😂

[@rashid8304]

I have this injury since 2 years ago and I don't know what to do get get released from this injury .

[@anteeantee8144]

any exercise can be dangerous if you overdo it or your form is lacking (happens to everybody if you are pushing past your limits) and dont believer your doctor according do medicine you shouldnt even lift more than 50lbs overhead... doctors are like that: you "i have backpain, can i lift?" docto "no, till its better" a good sports doctor will analyse more and wount say you should stop lifting if you for example have a lumbago?! keep lifting through the pain!... if you stop lifting cause of that: youre stupid... if your doctors says you should stop lifting: hes stupid... but most doctors dont have any knowledge about those injuries and wanna be on the save side + most calethetics athletes just overdo it with their volume 10 sets off dips?! no bodybuilder in his right mind would do this... 3-4sets and finito... youre done... do another exercise... if you are doing 10 sets of weighted dips 2-3 times a week... then you are asking for an injury...

[@daredevildanielx]

LOL CHOSTOCHONDRITIS. that's just inflammation of the cartilage in the ribs. Its not serious. take an ibuprofen for a few weeks and get back into it

[@Stealth991]

Lads, just do them properly and don’t ego lift, then you will not injure yourself like this muppet

[@ooooa9046]

So you got an injury doing a certain exercise and now preach to the world that it’s a useless exercise because you got injured. I’m willing to bet you increased your weight to a level you weren’t ready for, causing you to perform the dip with poor body mechanics. The pressure when to your inner chest (tendons/joints) because the muscles that you were supposed to engage were not engaged.

[@Superfly-T]

Tell that to Ian Barseagle

[@AnonymousHedge]

If you do slow, full range of motion dips, like you should, with proper tucking/flaring of elbows and scapular movement, the weight is automatically dramatically reduced, as is the risk of injury. I do these super deep dips at the gym and when people doing weighted dips with 45+ lbs see it, they give it a try and can hardly do one if any. The deeper stretch definitely builds more muscle and improves flexibility/mobility too

[@researchproject034]

Definitely! I too incorporate lots of deep dips with pauses as well. Working on shoulder strength and mobility is also a key player. Do your facepulls and shoulder dislocates, then you should be good to go

[@frederico-d3l]

first time i hear someone get injured because of dips. every 3 months a dude tears his pec doing bench press my gym. weighted dips are like every exercise at the end. DONT use weights you cant control. if you cant do more than 5 reps... you should use less weight

[@randallsteiger4860]

Bad info. Do dips. They are the squat of the upper body. No exceptions. 3 plates is excessive...

[@zackhayum]

You’re the only person to have this view. ‘Oooh look at me, i got injured doing this exercise so it must be useless’

[@christopherds3880]

This title is misleading. In no way shape or form is the dip a beginner exercise. Bunch of bologna here.

[@serotoninsound6253]

Weighted are one of the best exercises! I used to get sternum pain like you but switched to only doing Them once a week on heavy push day and ring dips on light day!

[@Timedelayedfuse]

Opinions are like assholes. We all have them and they all STINK

[@Gym_lover1290]

I train with 30kg weight plates on dips and I would be VERY injured if I didn't do proper warmup for that, it takes 10-15 minutes but really worth it because dips build superhuman shoulder strength

[@stanleykachuik2589]

Another snow ❄️ flake got but hurt doing dips 😅

[@GoldenGod69]

The biggest/strongest my chest/arms/shoulders got is when I added weighted dips to my routine last year. Felt like a cheat code.

[@naturalgains4229]

Lol I got that injury doing high volume dips. Went away in like a week. The thing is you don’t even need to go heavy on dips to build muscle and strength or even do a lot of volume. I just do 1 set to failure on it and grow just as good. No over use injuries and no need for heavier weight. If normal dips are too “easy” for you. Do slow motion dips, slow rep speed where it’s almost to a crawl. And pause at the bottom half of the dip before raising yourself back up. Adding in isometrics and using all muscle no momentum will give you gains.

[@RedemptionInChrist.]

Yeah I agree. I mean count your body weight alone and that can be alot for most people. Theirs no wonder your getting hurt trying to do crazy weight thats not necessary to go that heavy

[@davepazz580]

Agree totally... most people aren't strength exhibitionists, and strapping a ton of plates around your waist to do dips is pretty useless and unnecessary if your goal is simply developing your chest. Your own bodyweight will be more than enough to accomplish that... just do normal bodyweight progressions to increase the difficulty over time.

[@naturalgains4229]

@@davepazz580 exactly. I can guarantee simply slowing down the rep speed is hard enough for a majority of the population. And from what I’ve seen, there are people just doing pushups that can pull impressive bench press numbers. Tao Physique and Andrew Tate can both bench slightly above 300Lbs and they just do calisthenics.

[@Ironman-ko5vw]

Dips are the best upper body pushing excercise

[@mohd.asaads.279]

Liu xiadong chinese Olympian utilizes the weighted dips

[@briedis5]

I had Sternum pain from dips aswell. It wasn't because of heavy dipping, but of the inconsistency of the weight. Your body needs to adapt to the weight more longer than you think. I got my injury from adding more weight every session

[@davepazz580]

Most people underestimate how long it takes for them to get accustomed to weighted calisthenics exercises, particularly dips... They see videos on Instagram and KZbin of guys dipping with 225 lbs. strapped to themselves then they can't wait to go out and do the same, only to soon realize this particular movement is actually way riskier than it first seems.

[@dynaspinner64]

The worst advice you can ever give someone is instilling fear into others from doing an exercise because it injured yoi either due to anatomy or bad form. If it doesn't work for you, great do something else. But if it works for others with no problem, let them.

[@ScorpionSuerte]

It's a common injury, if you lift heavy. It happened to me, plus I permanently damaged my shoulder joint.

[@dynaspinner64]

@@ScorpionSuerte if you prepare properly it won't be an issue. If you jump into weighted dips without getting at least 30 clean dips without weight and you lift too much too soon, that's not the exercise's problem. Bad advice anyways. And if your anatomy doesn't allow it doesn't mean you should fear monger others from not doing it.

[@ScorpionSuerte]

@@dynaspinner64 I've been doing bodybuilding for 20 years and only got two lifelong injuries, and both were caused by weighted dips. Surely if I didn't know how to exercise I'd have all sorts of injuries, from squatting, deadlifts, one arm pulls ups, single leg pistol squats with weight etc. Also, if you look at his comments, there's a disproportionate amount of people coincidentally suffering from the same injury, and shoulder injuries. You're like the guy telling people rifing a motorbike is safe because you personally never crashed, even though stats show they're 20 times more dangerous than cars

[@Tyrvana]

Weighted dips are like top 3-4 fun exercises hello.

[@acommentator8851]

I've seen how you dip and it's because you don't retract your scapula instead you lazily keep it protracted to not fight back gravity and to just contract the chest. That's the price that is payed when someone has no form, plus it does it weighted for years. Same with weighted pull-ups. People don't want to retract their scapulas before weighted pulls or pushes or even the non weighted ones. That's the price. I know many people around your height or more diping much more than you for reps, not much older than you they dip weighted for years and they never had any problems. If a bodyweight dip, executed properly, doesn't craze injuries, why a weighted one should? Exactly, it shouldn't. Bad form on top of weights for years, of course you got injured.

[@ashensivnarain7221]

He is just upset he hurt himself and wasnt even good at te exercise

[@thegreatestofalltime973]

Not a single elute gymnast or wrestler would agree with this lol

[@MrKHING26]

Dips are fine. I don't do them because I get sternum pain and I don't want it to crack. If u get no pain and do them correctly, they're great

[@pflumiii]

Bro how is 15 k people so dumb to like the video?

[@NicholsonM]

you're weak that's why

[@tallmanjude]

🤣 What? Been doing weighted dips for decades and not one injury from them. You were going about it all wrong. Probably should have stayed at 2 plates until you had them for high, high reps then move to 3 plates. My chest sticks out in a hoodie thanks to weighted dips. ✌🏽

[@beyondcalisthenics]

After a year from now this guy will say," sorry I was wrong. Weighted dips are good for chest gain!" I no longer listen to these so called fitness gurus. They always dispute themselves lol

[@laurentpeterson5276]

Wow, that sucks, my body responds well to weighted dips.

[@iker8010]

Austin, I respect you but man, just because you got injured doing a certain exercise doesn't mean other people are going to get hurt doing that exercise or that they cannot include it in their routine... I don't do handstands push ups because of wrist problems, that doesn't mean I can go tell other people "DON'T IT YOU'LL GET HURT BRO ITS NOT OPTIMAL!". Ofc not, HSPU is an excellent exercise, but in my case I stick to overhead pressing with a barbell due to training and injury history.

[@IAMJEFFREY-cw9ns]

BS advice😂😂

[@peturtudjarov2926]

Bullshiiit

[@NO.1OGX]

You still got time to delete this

[@sylenx02]

Mathew Zlat wants to know your location...

[@DubYuhGChoppa]

I tore my pec ego lifting on bench press when I was 16, so yea bench press isn't effective guys

[@rawactivityofficial]

Dip gave me a lots of benefits. Yours are overweight over workout makes you get injured .

[@wetbaloni9976]

call me wrong, but maybe it’s cos he didn’t train doing a really deep dip. his dips stop around 90 degrees. you can go super fucking deep on the dip if you train the ROM, flexibility, and build the new strength in that zone. so through not going through as full a ROM as possible once a certain point was reached, injuries came about

[@chrispayne591]

My favourite and best exercise. Been doing them for 35 years and never been injured.

[@Rgroose]

35 years of gym? respect

[@2Wheeligniter]

Stay away from weighted calisthenics, the risk reward ratio isnt worth it. Weighted dips weighted pull ups. Stick to body weight only, if you wanna stay in the game long term

[@blacklyfe5543]

Only speak for yourself your personal experience doesn't reflect everyone's reality weighted dips is a good method to building muscle in my opinion you probably put too much weights on your body that's why you got injuired it wasn't the weighted dip that caused you to do an injury it was the amount of force you tried to do that caused you to have an injury

[@TalesofCROWE]

Hey guys, dips hurt me so that means it's also going to hurt you and doesn't work!

[@captain6374]

you got injured doesn't mean the exercise is useless,your form is useless.

[@wizzy8]

The misinformation community 🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️

[@Glotaku]

Dips are a trash exercise in general, bad leverages, terrible on the joints and just inefficient at building muscle when you can just put more effort into your tricep isolation lift and incline bench press

[@MichaelArenas]

“A mosquito bit me in a steak restaurant” The guy in the video: 10 reasons why you should not eat meat

[@royeramos7627]

Calisthenics gets its POWER from Repetitions vs Progression of WEiGHT so physically it is STAMiNA vs BULK and by Ratio Repetitions WiN for SHO

[@robmarsh6025]

In all your dip clips your posture is incorrect, you cannount hunch over when descending you will get the pain in your sternum. How i know? I got slight pain doing it wrong

[@nonameneeded9202]

Really looked up to this guy up until now…damn 😢

[@HawkHogan_]

If that was your form moving 3 plates, then no wonder you got hurt lol.

[@LDGRXR]

Came back to this after a year of consistently doing heavy weighted dips 2x a week. I used to think you were being dramatic because you weren't careful and put the blame on the exercise instead. Couldn't have been more wrong. Like i was saying, I went from +35kg 1rm to +1x bodyweight(70kg). Hit the pr today. However, im considering leaving dips on the side from now on because today, i experienced the most amount of sudden sternum pain so far. Im guessing it is because of how heavy i went today, while having just recovered from being very sick. I did not(thankfully), get an injury like yours, however, all these random sternum pains that ive experienced over the past 2 months+today's experience, made me rethink my view on the dip. So, if you read this far(tldr ik), you were right(kinda). I still think the dip is top tier, but yeah, it indeed is really hard on the sternum.

[@InternetUser2409]

Just wait untill MarioRios comes at this guy and calles him a dumb bodybuilder😂

[@mranytimeanywhere794]

You just started doing it too heavy thats all its nothing wrong with the weighted dip unless you aren't safe and you're ego lifting.

[@cheerfulheartdeepmind685]

Bodyweight exercises are all you need... do them in a perfect control slow and full ROM with decent eccentric concentric phases....Do them 1 set each with a lot of variations avoiding failure... 3 times a week... don't go over 15 reps... slowly add variations but don't do long workouts... Keep your CNS fresh, don't fry it.... stimulate, don't annihilate.... you will have great body and more importantly, you will have a healthy young body....

[@Fatztofits]

You started telling 3 plates you went to fast your body wasn’t ready for it you jump the gun homie

[@_M_4]

If you do dips with proper technique (controlled descent, deep stretch, pause at the bottom) you not only prevent injury risk, you also can easily progressively overload with mininum extra weight.

[@BlackBirdOverflow]

I got injured while walking so you guys should stop walking just run or stay home

[@SilverSlugs16]

You pushed dips past what you could handle, didn’t give them a break as they began to hurt you, and prefer other exercises…and so nobody else should do them? Lmao. A movement in and of itself is almost _never_ what causes injury. Hammering away at a given movement with excessive volume over years is what gets you injured. It’s the same reason people give this “don’t do this” speech for squats, bench press and deadlifts. Fatigue mismanagement and crappy technique hurts people. Not dips, squats or any other exercises

[@PCgohard]

Nah bruh…Weighted dips or without weights are amazing for upper body. I’m going with Mike Mentzer on this one. Also every exercise has potential to cause injury wether minor or major.

[@ragemishima9352]

There are hardly any complex pushing movement that can beat the good ol' dips. They are the squats of the upper body, there fore you should treat them like squats. Intelligently increasing the weight with the cleanest possible technique = gainz. Doing it like an ogre = injury.

[@stephencox8723]

You just weren’t doing them correctly. Weighted dips have never caused my any issues because I don’t increase the weight unless I can do it with strict form. You probably were exploding doing the reps. Bad take.

[@Marko-ij4vy]

Im surprised how many people in the comments are emotionally atached to dips and are coping with "yOu JuSt DiD tHem WroNg" when Austin is probably stronger and has better physique than 99% of this commenters and hes actually right. Some people are not anatomically built to do heavy dips safely and can injure their sternum no matter how "good" their form is. Dips are great for building muscle no doubt about that but people can literally crack their sternum on dips no matter what their form is like. They just arent for everyone. If you feel sternum pain when doing dips no matter how you change your form then theyre probably not for you and you better off doing other exercises. Dips arent mandatory.

[@KenzFitness]

Nah weighted dips are one of the best exercises for building push strength. Just need to focus on good form and learn not to overdo it

[@mikehicks83]

Bruh, there’s like 77 things in this short clip that make you go 🤔 But majorly ⁉️”weighted dips are for beginners?” 🤣

[@ajwall1]

Or just do less weight? You can hurt yourself going too hard on any exercise

[@makaveli1477]

What's this guy talking about? 🤣🤣 Lower the weight do slower reps if your worried about an injury, but please don't stop weighted dips they are amazing.

[@arthurrobinson4644]

.I just have no comment. Somebody's guys on these channels to speak doing too much. At first of all, you shouldn't be doing anything excessively that you can't manage is awake. I do you do it till certain degree and then you don't do it? No more fact, you can just use your body weight and do a thirty down

[@MOET02]

This is some really dumbassery! I have never lifted in my life and started 3 months ago with an empty barbell, I did assisted dips and chin ups for 8 weeks before I could do 5 clean reps in each! Without a doubt I’ve noticed how much stronger I am every session because of my dips and chin ups. I looked in the mirror this morning while showering and I guess the lighting was just right because one my bulbs went out and bro ive never seen chest and shoulder muscles on my body ever in life until today 😂😂😂

[@bambostarla6259]

Alex leonidas would disagree with you, he did 5 plates for a 1 rep max and never fot injured. Dips are one of the best exercises you can do, and getting to 3-4 plates will develope your chest and tris better than other compound movements anyway

[@jimmykronberg763]

Just because you got costochondritis while also doing dips when you hit the gym doesn’t mean the dips caused it. Just don’t be doing 1-4RMs on them and go slow on the eccentric you’ll be ok lol. Tricep pumps go crazy on the dips

[@yuchoen9706]

Lol and I went from 3 x12 body weigh dips to doing 5 sets till failure on 20 kg 15 kg 10 kg 5 kg n Nat body dips. Chest n shoulders pain a bit after but f it

[@oluwadamilolaolakunle2591]

I think maybe it was your form that was the problem not necessarily the exercise. And I mean that in the most respectful way possible. But dips aren't bad guys.

[@bendodd2405]

100% I got the same thing from weighted dips and I remember the exact moment it happened Stained my shoulder doing them then after I got back into them a while late I got costochrondritis in my sternum rib joints which a doctor confirmed. Dips are a very advanced excercise and to be honest they are great if you can actually handle the weight which I guarantee most of you are not doing correctly. The speed of these dips on the video is way too fast and the the weight is far too heavy. One of the problems is going too low as it's hard to gauge how low your actually going on a dip but the main issue is the dismount. Once you have reached fatigue, that quick second or two when you go lower than normal to dismount from the bars under heavy weight is all it takes. Be safe and use less Wight for slower controlled reps, think of the move as a decline push up so lean forward a bit to allow scapular protraction and use a step under your feet so you can exit the move safely once fatigued