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

 

[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.

 

[magman1]

i have the same problem, with pain on dips...what i found helps(as someone else mentioned) is going partially down for the first few, deeper each time. I also have a problem if i get off to quickly...i really need to ease my way off

 

[IronLion]

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.

then what is the point of this thread?

 

[spatts]

This isn't a pain from any kind of injury... and NO I do not have tendonitis...

Why does my elbow hurt? ...and what is wrong with it?

If I try to do a reverse grip EZ bar curl (Scot curl) or front delt work with dumbbells... my elbow... leading a little into the forearm... is screaming with pain.

It has gotten to the point that I wince if I have to shake hands with someone.

This has been going on for about two months.

I know this post was 9 months ago, but these things don't go away easily, if at all.

 

[pillsbury]

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.

your response made me laugh

 

[casualbb]

1. Do you do warm-up sets specifically of chest dips, or just a general chest warm-up with other exercises?
1a. Do you do multiple sets of chest dips? How do the subsequent sets feel?
2. How deep do you go?

-casual

 

[SofaGeorge]

I know this post was 9 months ago, but these things don't go away easily, if at all.

I got tendonitis once from a dog ball thrower... stopped using it... and it took months and months to go away. This isn't tendonitis. It's a totally different experience. It's like a WALL that you have to go through in order to do the exercise. Once you go through the wall it doesn't hurt anymore.

When I had tendonitis... every rep hurt.

 

[SofaGeorge]

1. Do you do warm-up sets specifically of chest dips, or just a general chest warm-up with other exercises?
1a. Do you do multiple sets of chest dips? How do the subsequent sets feel?
2. How deep do you go?

-casual

1. I do dip warm ups without weight. 4-5 sets.

2. I do 5 x 5 of weighted dips. I only feel pain on the first rep of each set... the next four reps don't hurt. Each first rep is murder.

3. I go deep into the hole... but the deeper I get the less pain there is. The pain starts 20% of the way down... and lasts till I get to the bottom 20%. Then like a miracle it is gone.

 

[casualbb]

Oy vey. I don't know what to tell you.

Those are some strange symptoms.

Do your warmup sets hurt or is it only when you start to get heavy? Have you tried pyramiding your warmup set weight?

-casual