Chest Dip

Trains the Abdominal Head.

Equipment
Parallel bars
Mechanic
Compound
Force
Push
Level
Intermediate
Chest Dip: the muscles it trains, from the front. Primary — Abdominal Head. Also worked — Anterior Deltoid, Lateral Deltoid, Posterior Deltoid, Long Head and 2 more.Chest Dip: the muscles it trains, from behind. Primary — Abdominal Head. Also worked — Anterior Deltoid, Lateral Deltoid, Posterior Deltoid, Long Head and 2 more.
The muscles this trains, front and back. Deeper red is primary.

How to do it

  1. Set parallel bars at roughly hip height and grip them with your arms straight, supporting your bodyweight.
  2. Cross your ankles behind you and lean your torso forward over your hands. This lean is what separates a chest dip from a triceps dip — everything else is nearly the same.
  3. Let your elbows travel slightly out from your body rather than tucked tight to your ribs.
  4. Lower yourself under control by bending the elbows, keeping the forward lean, until you feel a stretch across the lower chest and your upper arms are roughly parallel to the floor.
  5. Press back up by driving through your hands, keeping the torso leaning forward the whole way.
  6. Stop just short of locking the elbows at the top to keep tension on the chest.

Common mistakes

Muscles worked

Primary

Secondary