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I've been doing dips with more and more weight

i know it's not much or impressive, but today i did three sets with 25 lbs hanging off me with a dip belt

but lately (ever since i passed 15 lbs) my clavicles hurt real bad when i do dips, especially right when i stop and put my weight off my arms and onto my feet

so i'm worried that i'm going to shatter my clavicles dipping with only 25 lbs

what's the deal, am i doing dips wrong? does this happen to other people?
>> Theodore Roosevelt
dips are fucking tough on the body man...might wanna take it easy for a while and drop the weight.

like 2 months ago i completely fucked up my chest doing dips...hurt like hell for almost a month.
>> Anonymous
>especially right when i stop and put my weight off my arms and onto my feet

use a dip belt?
>> Anonymous
>today i did three sets with 25 lbs hanging off me with a dip belt

>>326581
i am using a dip belt, or can't you read?
>> Anonymous
I am familiar with that feeling you describe.

Set aside the dip belt for an experiment. Mount up to do the dips. Pull your knees up high. Press your chin into your chest and round your back a bit. Now do your dips. Be sure to go low and focus on the muscles being activated. Feel them stretch at the bottom and squeeze at the top.

Dips are a bodyweight exercise -- moving the body through space, as opposed to moving a weight around yourself. Adding weight makes the movement a smidge unnatural. (Note this is different from, say, squats, where you are moving an external weight and shifting your center of gravity through the movement; the weight of the exercise does not come entirely from your own bodyweight.)
>> Anonymous
does it feel more towards your shoulders?
im no doctor but there is a ligament in there that is probably taking alot of pressure.
>> Anonymous
>>326996
no, it's like at the middle of each of my clavicles, between the shoulder and the center of my body

right dead in the center of the bone, like where engineering would say is the weakest part of the structural integrity
>> Anonymous
>>326571
I used to experience the same thing when i first started doing weighted dips. What I did was lower the weight to a level where i could do 12 without any pain and slowly worked my way up. Every week I added 5 pounds to my 8 rep max. I do 4 sets, first set is warm up with body weight, second is 25 lbs, 3rd is 45 lbs, 4th is 90 lbs. If I do much more than 90lbs i get that pain, so I would say the best advice is gradually step up the weight.
>> Anonymous
>>327015
YOU DO DIPS WITH 90LBS!!11!!??//??
OH SHI-
>> Anonymous
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how much do you weigh? Just curious and doesn't have much to do with the pain you're experiencing.

anyways, dips have alot of involvement with pectoralic major and due to the nature of the movement a good portion of the fibers used to perform dips are attached to that portion of the clavicle. pic related (anterior view,look in a mirror and it's your right one)
>> Anonymous
>>327029
i think he means assisted dips, and he's doing ONLY 90 lbs
>> Anonymous
>>327033
i weigh 165 and then i did 25lbs dips today so i'm dipping 190

going with stronglifts, i'll be dipping 192.5 next time
>> Anonymous
actually i'm going to try and get on a machine with adjustable hand bars and make them more narrow

i saw on t-nation or whatever google brought up for "clavicle dip pain" that said if the bars are too wide, then you get the pain

my university's gym has a pair of assisted dip machines that let you make the bars narrower

i'll do that and move the foot assisting thing out of the way and hopefully there will not be pain

honestly it just feels like all my weight is being borne by clavicles and they're under tremendous torque

i just don't want them shattering anytime soon (read: ever.)