Questions tagged [dips]

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How do I do dips without rotator cuff pain

I want to be able to train dips, with a goal of moving to ring dips, then muscle ups. My problem is that when I do regular dips, or machine assist dips, I get a high, consistsent level of shoulder pain. I think the mechanism of the injury is that…
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How to properly do dips?

I haven't been able to find as much information on how to properly do dips compared to all the other information I've been able to find on squats, deadlifts, etc. Dips just don't seem to be as well-known. That being said, I'm looking for general…
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Name exercise for abs in the dip bars

How do you call an exercise that consists in holding the dip bars with the arms straight (during the whole exercise) and contracting the abs? What is it good for?