Weighted dips prevent shoulder injury?please help?!
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so I really like to do heavy weighted dips, but heard that they can wreck your shoulders or rotator cuffs, so what can I do to make sure I can dip and not wreck my shoulders?
Answers: I asked this already, but no one answered
so I really like to do heavy weighted dips, but heard that they can wreck your shoulders or rotator cuffs, so what can I do to make sure I can dip and not wreck my shoulders?
Dips are an old time exercise. If they were wrecking people, the movement would have been dropped long ago.
I never had a problem with dips myself. I've become a big fan of overall shoulder development and not pushing any one exercise to record breaking levels. So I think dips are ok, but as with most exercises, common sense is needed.
This evening I checked a number of my resources:
. National Strength and Conditioning Assoc. didn't mention the exercise, at least as of 1997. So I guess it is not recommended, but there was no warning either.
. Weightlifting Ency. by Arther Drechsler, (Olympic lifting expert) was the only trusted resource that has a mild opposition to them.
. Guys with masters and Phd's in exercise science like Dr. Squat (Hatfield) and Charles Staley recommend dips in their programs.
Another expert, Todd Wilson, who hangs out at drsquat.com commented on the controversy of dips:
"As long as one does not have a pre-existing shoulder dysfunction, there is no con. In fact, it helps to work the shoulder through one of it's end ranges of motion and therefore can help prevent dysfunction and/or injury. Understand dysfunction can be present for sometime before it manifest itself. If it's not dips it will eventually be benching, overhead pressing, inclines or declines....all "cause" shoulder injury depending on who you ask....it's nonsense program design causes far more shoulder injuries than any exercise."
I hope that puts your mind at ease. :)