Eight reasons I incorporated chest dips into my routine

Research shows that the dip has been prescribed for four reasons; to train the triceps, to train the chest, to increase upper body push strength, or to rehabilitate or prehabilitation from upper extremity injury. In my workout routine, I have found at least eight reasons to do chest and triceps dips using a dip bar, and dips machine (assisted).

These are the top eight reasons I incorporated chest dips into my routine

1. Chest and triceps dips are great exercises for increasing total upper-body strength.
   If you just started your strength training journey, try to do a couple of reps on the dip bar (warm up well first), and you'll feel it for yourself. It takes a lot of strength to perform many reps.
2. The dip is a compound exercise, building more strength, and muscle, and burning more calories than isolation exercises.
3. Once you progress, you can easily add extra weight to your bodyweight and progressively overload in weight for even more strength and hypertrophy.
4. It's a great exercise to increase flexibility, especially in the shoulders and wrists.
5. Dips help to reduce injuries by making your joints stronger - wrists, elbows, and even shoulders. At nearly 50, I  need a lot of all of these benefits.
6. No gym or can't make it to the gym I can still do my dips, no problem. I can still do my chest or triceps dips using two strong-stable chairs.
7. Dips are great whether you want to go for a high number or low of repetitions.
8. Dips can help to boost your bench press. They helped me double the weight I could bench press at the beginning of my after-40 fitness journey.

Great workouts, natty friends!

---