Dips/Pullups

[Seventy7]

How many of you consistently do dips and pullups/chinups in your weekly workouts? How many times a week? I have noticed some nice gains in the last couple weeks...aiming for the V shape.

[austintwo]

I live by these exercises, Bro - couldn't do a body-weight pullup when I started back to workout out 2 years ago - did 10-10-8 two weeks ago in three sets.

Dips are great too.

Keep doing them, Bro - best lifts out there! Try periodizing them by (for example) adding weight to them too, or changing your grip, or they'll get stale.

[Jimbo]

I do leaning dips on chest days and straight dips when I work triceps. I do chins almost every workout.

ps...brag brag...I've started adding weights to my dips. Messin with those chains just makes one feel all MANLY.

[drew]

I'm with you austintwo...I live by these as well. If you want to try something really challenging, get a 'rock-climbing' training board and do some fingertip pullups from that!! It'll really hit your grip strength and forearms.

[dawong]

i dips on chest/tris days
and pullups on shoulder/back days

Jimbo - did you buy a belt to add weight or did you just get a chain? ive been thinking about getting/making one..they're getting too easy for me =)

[Southpaw]

I do dips and pullups 1-2 times a week.

When I first started doing dips a year ago, I could barely kick out a couple of reps at my own body weight. In my last workout, I added 45 pounds and was able to do 4 sets of 10.

I'm not as good with the pullups, but I keep working on them.

Keep plugging away.....these are two of the best lifts out there.

[Jimbo]

Actually, JP has one in the fitness center here. leather belt with chains...

I would imagine it would depend on just how much weight your hanging off there as to what kind of belt to use. If your not using too much weight, I would imagine you could rig something up yourself....

[Jimbo]

Dang Southpaw...that's pretty awesome. I haven't hung anything near that off my waist...20# is as much as I've tried...but hey...I'm moving up.

[dawong]

thank you Jimbo
lucky, my school gym is cheap and doesnt have those. lol.

[Matthew]

I do dips and pullups in a lot of my workouts, I love doing them. I don't have a belt, but since I work out at home what I did was take my jumprope and put it through the hole in the weight plate, then wrap it around my waist. It's the plastic/rubber kind of rope so I don't need to tie it, it gets caught on itself.

[Southpaw]

Jimbo, I abosolutely hated doing them when I first began. I had to use a machine to offset my weight to make them easier. Once I could do about 10 unassisted, I started adding on additional weight.....5 pounds at a time. It's weird, but they're now one of my favorite lifts. I don't know if this will be true for you, but doing dips really helped me improve my bench press.

I'm not as good when it comes to pullups. I can do about 3 sets of 5 with my own bodyweight (198). I can't wait until I can start adding weight to them!

[nobody]

You guys should try towel pullups. Throw a thick towel over any strong bar, grab one end in each hand and do pullups. Great exercise for your grip, also.

[The Smaniac]

My goal when I started working out was to be able to throw my weight around, i.e. pullups, dips, pushups. I was a lot heavier and weaker, couldn't do a pullup to save my life. Now I use a bodyweight exercise to burn out a little more at the end of every workout if I can take it. It's awesome to be able to knock out sets of 10+ pullups and 25+ unweighted dips. Not on the same day, though; I'm not that strong (yet ).

[RipStone]

For those of you who do weighted dips/pullups and don't have a belt whit a chain for the wieght, you guys can just use a backpack and put weights in there while you perform the excersise. I had to do this the other week at my gym cus the belt broke...I got some looks but I think it was cus people saw me loading wieghts in my bad and thought I was gonna steal them...haha.

[gruckiii]

use a backpack and put weights in there while you perform the excersise

Is useing an old backpack to add weight inadvisable for any reason? That's what I have done for other exercises that I needed wieght for.

[vandamme]

I used to do pullups always for my back workouts, i've since cut my back training down to almost nothing but I was using a 45 plate for my sets. I used a belt with a chain that sat comfortably around hips. For dips I used to hold a db between my feet but once you get up in weight you can't really hold a 90-100 pound db there so I now use the same belt i used for pullups, works very well. the problem I find is the sometimes it cuts into your hips when going really heavy.

[dawong]

backpack, thats a good idea.

[Bo]

When I do weighted dips, I cross my feet and put a dumb bell with a large diamater iron between my legs, just above ankles. I then prop myself up and curl my leg backwards as if during a chinup. Too cheap for belt I guess

But I do this with 15lb-20lb. 40lb dumb-bell probably might not be too easy to hold

[duff beer]

I can do 19 chinups, but only 12 pullups. I do chinups in every back workout, usually the sets are something like 19, 14, 10, 7, 5, 5, 5, 4...the first 3 sets or so being warmups.

[Relentless]

I built a chin-up/dip station out of old fence posts my dad and I used to fence in our cattle. Lemme tell ya that sumbitch is sturdy and the flashburn I got welding it was worth it damn it.
Not only are they ranked up at the top for overall effectiveness for strength but they are the funnest to perform, great confidence builders (not everyone can do them, let alone multiple reps and/or with 45s hangin off ya), and they can be manipulated in different versions to virtually cover not all but the majority of the major upper body muscle groups [shoulder,tri,bi,chest,lat dorsi, abs] These two firecrackers will stay in my routines FOREVER! (injury prevention willing *knock on wood*)