How To Do Triceps Dips
How To Do Triceps Dips? The exercise builds arm and shoulder strength. In general, it works the muscles that run on the backside of your upper arm, from the elbow to the shoulder. It is a basic bodyweight exercise that doesn’t require much equipment.
What Muscles Do Triceps Dips Work?
With this exercise, you can target the triceps brachii at the back of your arms. Additionally, your deltoids, pecs, lats, rhomboids, and levator scapulae support the movement.
There are many variations of this simple exercise that can be done anywhere and at varying levels of fitness. It is a good exercise for strengthening your upper body. In addition to activating the triceps brachii muscle on the back of your upper arm, the triceps dip requires you to engage your core as you raise your hips.
Triceps Dips Step By Step (On Box)
- Place your hands on a box with straight arms.
- Bent your knees leaning the weight on your heels.
- Bend the arms lowering yourself down to the floor until your arms are at 90 degrees.
- Push back up hard, extend and straighten your arms back to the start position.
- Try a count of three lowering down and one coming back up.
The Triceps Dip Modifications
The triceps dip has many useful modifications and can be used by any fitness-level exerciser. The exercise strengthens the upper body and increases the range of motion of the body. All triceps dip modifications are effective in building up the strength of the triceps, the shoulders, and the arms.
Below I list some of the modifications for your inspiration:
- Dips with straight legs
- Dips with straight elevated legs
- Dips with bars
- Dips with rings
- Bench press dips
