Chest Dips For A Bigger Chest

Weighted chest dips are one of the exercises that most people don’t even consider when they sit down to design their chest workouts. While chest dips are typically thought of as a triceps building exercise, the fact of the matter is that with a simple adjustment to the position of your body during the bottom phase of this exercise, you can isolate you pecs and intensely target your pecs!

I personally think so highly of dips that I work them into each of my upper body workouts.  It’s an amazing chest exercise that really doesn’t get the credit (as a chest exercise) that it deserves. If you really want to pack on some solid muscle in your pecs then you need to learn how to do dips properly and make it a point to incorporate dips into your chest plan.

While dips in general have been typically considered to be a body weight exercise, you really won’t be able to get the biggest chest building benefit from this exercise until you start performing dips with some form of weights. However, in order to get the level of strength that you’ll need in order to perform chest dips with weights and decent form, it’s a good idea to perform at least a few workouts of unweighted body weight dips in order to learn the proper form and increase your level of strength so that you don’t actually wind up injuring yourself once you pack on the weight.

In order to work weights into this exercise you’ll need a weight lifting belt that allows you to hang some form of weight between your legs.  The most common type of equipment that see in the gyms these days is a basic weight lifting belt with two round metal rings in the front that you can run a chain through them and, then hang the weight on the chain.  These belts can be purchased ready to use, or you can retro fit one of your own weight belts.

In my opinion, the biggest benefit of weighted dips lies in the fact that you can really stretch out your chest muscles during the downward phase of this exercise in a very systematic manner.  This allows for more nutrient and blood flow through your pectoral muscles, while improving your range of motion and improving your pectoral flexibility. But you do have to be careful to not push the range of motion of this exercise, as you can injure your shoulders or tear your pectoral muscles if you’re not careful.

In order to stimulate the most muscle growth chest dips and and really kick-start some impressive chest growth, you’ve absolutely got to learn how to perform weighted dips with decent form. Make sure to practice this movement a few times before you even try to increase the weight.  You might find that you need to build up a solid level of strength before you move on to heavy chest dips.  If that’s the case don’t worry about it, just focus on completing your dips with good form and your strength will increase.

Here’s how to complete chest dips in order to kick-start some real pectoral growth:

1.) Place your hands on the parallel bars spaced out approximately shoulder width
2.) Straighten your arms in order to lift your feet off of the foot stands
3.) Tilt your body forward while slowly lowering yourself (this is what takes the emphasis off of your triceps and places the bulk of the load on to your chest)
4.) Continue lowering your body until the bottom of your chest is even with your hands
5.) Extend your arms and push your body back to the starting position while focusing on leaning forward as much as possible.

If you want to build a bigger more muscular chest, then you’ve got to add weighted chest dips to your upper body routine.  Not only will they help you improve the overall flexibility level of your upper body, but you’ll be able to stimulate your chest muscles to explode like they never have before!