Pain doing weighted dips

[spatts]

Do you change grips, or just go wider?

 

[SofaGeorge]

Does anyone else experience this?

I do weighted dips reasonably heavy compared to most people. I can do them for triceps with no problem, but when I do them in proper position for chest it is agony going down for that first rep. It's like I'm pushing every part of my upper body... arms and chest... through shards of broken glass... and the worst thing about it is I have to move slow going down for that first rep.

Oddly, though, after I do a single rep I can go up and down for all the following reps with no pain at all... and I can move quickly.

Does anybody else experience this?

 

[Backlash]

I'm not doing much weight, but I have the same experience. Triceps dips are fine, but chest dips feel like they're tearing my chest/shoulders apart for the first few.

 

[spatts]

Hehehe...funny that's why I stopped benching like that!

 

[spatts]

Same question, does your grip change?

 

[c3bodybuilding]

Oddly enough, I get this pain while doing tricep dips, but not for chest! The exact opposite of some of you guys. Nuts. I can do a weighted chest dip with 120 around my waist, plus my 249lbs of bodyweight, and feel no pain, but once I try to do a weighted tricep dip, forget it.

Anyone have any ideas?

 

[SofaGeorge]

Do you change grips, or just go wider?

The bars on this dip aren't wide enough. I prefer a dip station where the bars V outward so that you can really choose your own grip. I can't do that here... so i stay the same each set.

 

[spatts]

Do you have pain if you do an incline DB press with a semi-pronated grip (like the one you use for dips) for the chest? And what about lower for your triceps?

 

[Backlash]

The one I use does V outward. I try to use a wider grip for chest and narrower for triceps - that would emphasize the muscles I'm trying to target right? But I still get the pain even with a narrower grip for chest.

 

[Backlash]

Not sure who that last question was directed to, but incline db presses have never caused me pain - they feel gooood