Pain doing weighted dips

[spatts]

do they feel good high and wide AND low and in?

 

[Backlash]

I've never really done incline dbs low and in.

 

[SofaGeorge]

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?

Nope. I don't get pain on any other lift... and this isn't anything new. I've experienced this for years and years. And like I said... I only get this on the first rep.

 

[JollyRogers]

1st rep is always killer, that stretch !!!!

 

[spatts]

SG, thats what I thought you'd say, and it made me wonder if it was a tendonitis issue. It can not only make your elbow hurt, but make the flexors and extensors that are supporting the weight in that movement sore (like "forearm splints"). Do you ever have any trouble with that?

 

[pillsbury]

Does anyone else experience this?



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?

you are not tight enough. i would bet that after your first rep, you move around a bit and find your "spot." thats why you can do consecutive reps after the first one . try tightening everything, especially your core, it will help tremendously

 

[PolishHammer1977]

Sofa,

You are wise enough to know the difference between pain and injury.

At this point a decision is made. If it is a pain issue I would definitely switch to a different exercise and do some rehab (A.R.) as well.

It may sound like a hypochondriac solution but it is always better to be safe. Your body may grow as a reslut of the change anyway!!!!!

 

[sorerotators]

1st rep is always killer, that stretch !!!!

Hey Sofa, try this. On your first rep go a 1/3 to a 1/2 of the way down.
And you'll find your groove alot easier without that awkward first rep.
I've been doing this alot lately on most heavy exercises. Bench, rows, pretty much everything.

Just remember you cant count that partial as a rep.

 

[the People's Champ]

but make the flexors and extensors that are supporting the weight in that movement sore (like "forearm splints"). Do you ever have any trouble with that?

I do! I do!

this only happens ever other time I do weighted dips, and also when I go really heavy. some days I can dip pretty heavy no pain, other days, I am just cringing. I also get a pain in my tris if I go heavy to quick, as if the heads are going to separate, i.e. like untangling a braid.

 

[SofaGeorge]

This isn't a pain from any kind of injury... and NO I do not have tendonitis... and the comment that I was "moving around" too much and needed to get tighter made me laugh.