Bench Dips

TricepsBodyweightBeginnerCompound
Bench Dips — start position
Start
Bench Dips — finish position
Finish
Muscles worked
PrimaryTriceps
SecondaryChest, Shoulders

How to do it

  1. 01

    For this exercise you will need to place a bench behind your back. With the bench perpendicular to your body, and while looking away from it, hold on to the bench on its edge with the hands fully extended, separated at shoulder width. The legs will be extended forward, bent at the waist and perpendicular to your torso. This will be your starting position.

  2. 02

    Slowly lower your body as you inhale by bending at the elbows until you lower yourself far enough to where there is an angle slightly smaller than 90 degrees between the upper arm and the forearm. Tip: Keep the elbows as close as possible throughout the movement. Forearms should always be pointing down.

  3. 03

    Using your triceps to bring your torso up again, lift yourself back to the starting position.

  4. 04

    Repeat for the recommended amount of repetitions.

In the app

Bench Dips needs no kit, so it appears whenever the day's window has room for it. Loads come from Rule 3 (Loads rise when earned, read from RPE, graded strong) and climb on the reps you actually did.

If a machine is taken the engine swaps a same-pattern movement and says why.

Same pattern, with kit

Same movement pattern, same primary muscles — swap by what you have.

With barbell
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With dumbbell
With ez bar

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