Seen him in person right before his show at the Arnold, can confirm, hes fucking brolic. And hey bro Alex if youre reading this by chance, thank you so much for your advice on lower back rehab with reverse hypers and good mornings, my lower back has recovered so much and I've now started pretty deeply and cleanly been doing 1 plate barbell good mornings for sets of 10-15 and got to 3 plate below the knee rack pulls for sets of around 10 reps. Never thought id hinge again let alone have some semblance of spinal erectors and yoke. God bless you bro
@@06hurdwphe's been doing it for 15 plus years at this point. He's still only around 68 kilos at this bodyfat level. It's the lighting that's making him look massive. He actually looks mid on stage
@@06hurdwpyou’re either high or new here, I’ve been subbed to this guy since I was 17 ,I’m 25 now.He’s fully natural and has great genetics and works hard af.
The pump from dips is crazy! When I jog back home from the park after pumping out high reps dips, my pecs feel like they're jiggling. Sounds a bit sus, but that's what it is.
@@AlexLeonidas Brother Alex , with all due respect you look too good to be vegan ; is the natty king no longer with us ?! ( take it as a compliment but is there a video explaining why vegan?)
Holy crap Alex i dodnt even know that was you. I used to watch you a couple years ago. You have gotten shredded. Looking good bro, and you are correct dips are king of upper body exercises.
Weighted lengthened partial dips with a pause at the bottom and only locking out at the top once you start feeling fatigue after 7 or 8 reps is amazing for your shoulders and chest
Given the distinction based on your conditioning between your clavicular fibers and your sternal fibers as well as the great separation of your front delts, I'm going to go out on a limb here and say I think when you do dips in that manner you are doing a great job of hitting the entire pack and not just the lower portions because the stretch you get in the front doors and the clavicular fibers is very extreme and a stretch under load according to my understanding is the most hypertrophic portion of any movement although there are better choices for upper chest obviously I'm going to say the dip performed with a full range of motion if your anthropometry permits you can do it this way place tremendous stretch on your upper fibers and your front belts under a load if you are doing the dips weighted or if your body weight is pretty heavy this makes for a great overall upper body push exercise it's going to nail your triceps your front delts and your entire pectoral musculature. In addition in addition there's a lot of action in the upper back and also the upper back is not necessarily a prime mover it is playing a role as an antagonist antagonist that's that means a stabilizer
I apologize for the lack of punctuation and some of the typos. I was dictating this voice recognition feature doesn't often do a great job. It's almost as if the more clearly I enunciate , the more convoluted the sentences turn out. Some of the words that the software elects to use often lead to absurd sentences with incomprehensible meaning. I hope that the readers understand what I was trying to say but unfortunately unable to proof read while driving. My sincere apologies.
I have a disagreement that the dips cause forward shoulder even with the slightest imbalances (car driving, phone usage, pc usage, weak core, straight neck). I'd say avoid them, isolating machines are safer and thus better long term. Just my opinion.
and the ring dip is the child of the romance between dumbbell benches and dips. The pressure gets even more insane when the muscles have to contract even more to keep yourself stable. And you can go even deeper, stretching the pecs even further like the dumbbell fly. Shout out to the Bulgarians Alex!
I always loved dips and been doing them at the end of my upper body workouts . I wish I have a belt so I could add weights but for now it’s going really DEEP stretch of the pecs and man it feels good.
I can dip bodyweight + 101 Kilos 5 reps without accessories and your content has been really helpful and motivating!! Been a long journey, one day I'd love to compete and maybe even become a national street lifting champion. Dips are 🔱
I feel like I’m over extending my shoulder tendons when doing dips sometimes if I go too deep… starting to feel that way with a lot of exercises if I get too big of a stretch I feel less muscle and more ligaments/tendons
I've been unable to do dips, push-ups, or bench pressing for the past two years due to a cyst inside my wrist capsule. The cyst is too close to a nerve, and because of that the surgery to remove it is very risky. My doctor says I need to be patient and wait for it to be absorbed, but I feel like I'm missing out on so many gains. It's frustrating not being able to work out as I'd like to; I can only focus on pull and legs and I'm sick of it. Not being able to do any pushing exercises for two years has really changed the way my body looks, and I'm not happy about it (0 delts, 0 pecs and 0 triceps, they completely vanished...). It's been so long, and I haven't seen any improvement. Waiting this long is really getting to me.
there are some elbow cuffs that u can clip to cable system and even adding idk a loadin pin to it, i think u could do pushing exercises withou wrist pain
@@chandragupta2605 Exactly! And pretty much ALL gyms iv ever been inside, has that machine where you squeeze your elbows together on a couple of pads. And even if you are not in a gym, you can train with bands outside like i do. You can wrap a band around your wrists and then tie the other end to something low to the ground and raise your arm and get delts trained and same with pecs and tri. So this is all his own fault (IMO) for lack of imagination.
Man I developed tendencies in my elbow a few years ago doing weight dips. Took a months if me babying it to recover. I really hate the movement now and would probably only do body weight. Granted I think the Rogue Matador weird arm position might have something to do with it
Alex I’m sure theirs plenty of variance to this question but if could make a simple reccomondation for someone who can do dips no problem when should we add weight more or less, if we can hit 10 reps or 15 or even 20? Thanks , your opinion is much respected and appreciated
I like dips more than bench because you can stretch at the bottom, with a normal bar you hit your chest before you get to stretch, this problem can be solved by using a cambered bar but I don't have one :(
No longer can they say bodybuilders are block heads. We have evolved to sophisticated intellectuals who use science - reason & trial & error to achieve success . Thank you for the amazing content King ❤
Its to hit the outer chest what you with a high to low cable machine flys it hits that part of the chest. But I wouldn't say it's a squat to the chest sure your using your weight plus additional weight but it's to outer part of e chest that you usually only hit with cables from a high position going low in a chest fly pattern going from the high position starting point to low
@@red-rr4si the outer chest it hits what you do on high to low cable flies I used to do them for that.... And chest I did benching and other things I did weight dips back then
U are so massive wtf dude, i probly never seen a more sculpted physique, and from what i know, this is all natural, u are putting all this TrT degens to shame, keep going!
when you say that the total load could be around the half of your squat max.. do you mean the total weight together with your body or just the extra load? because man oh man, my dip in total weight is 200kg! 120kg body +80kg. and this is without specialisation and natty 100%
you can return to push-ups first, relearn your technique. You should also make some flexibility work to open your shoulders better, and don't forget working your back more. Cuban press, German hang, skin the cat, etc. If you can bang out 30 good form push-ups in a row, you can return to the dips
Whenever I do dips, I feel a bit of pain in my front shoulder, but that's not my main issue. After a day I am sore in the front shoulder area.. Anyone can help?
Reason I don't like doing dips is my right shoulder is lower then my left when I dip. It doesn't cause pain on either of my shoulders but I just look weird doing it. My guess for this is my right scapula is kinda deformed it sticks out too much while my left scapula is completely normal. I always try to move around my shoulders while dipping to find that right position but it's not working out
ive seen improvement in my shoulder posture from working my scapula from the hanging position, doing reps and holds. improving scapula strength comes before pullups and dips.
Jeez man... You're absolutely RIPPED
I know thank you
Seen him in person right before his show at the Arnold, can confirm, hes fucking brolic. And hey bro Alex if youre reading this by chance, thank you so much for your advice on lower back rehab with reverse hypers and good mornings, my lower back has recovered so much and I've now started pretty deeply and cleanly been doing 1 plate barbell good mornings for sets of 10-15 and got to 3 plate below the knee rack pulls for sets of around 10 reps. Never thought id hinge again let alone have some semblance of spinal erectors and yoke. God bless you bro
Dips are awesome. Whenever I do them, I fell like I'm getting super jacked.
Weighted dips and pull ups at planet fitness feels badass because I have never seen one person do them there lol
You even look jacked while doing them!
They both are definitely new level for those watching us do them. We are like super human or some shit!
The pump I get is insane and it only takes a few sets.
Best and favorite exercise of mine
Bro actually became naturally enhanced 💀
hate to break it to you bro but he isnt natural
....@@06hurdwp
@@06hurdwphe's been doing it for 15 plus years at this point. He's still only around 68 kilos at this bodyfat level. It's the lighting that's making him look massive. He actually looks mid on stage
@@s.m.pravin9738 Just looked at his other videos and he is 100% on a low dose of gear
@@06hurdwpyou’re either high or new here, I’ve been subbed to this guy since I was 17 ,I’m 25 now.He’s fully natural and has great genetics and works hard af.
You look fuckin JACKED in this clip holy shit
Dips work, what can I say!
@@AlexLeonidas still unleaded?
I’m addicted to the stretch on the pecs at the bottom of a DEEEP pause dip
Best natural lifter the world has ever seen and imo the most well read and best teacher on youtube as well.
Looking crazy bro!!
Thank you Henry, dips contributed a ton to this physique!
i feel 0 shoulder involvement in dips, but they still feel really good. One of my favorites
That is actually preferable! Means you are built well for them.
I’ve been loving dips, went from doing 7 reps at the beginning of this year to 16 today
keep it up 💪🏼
The pump from dips is crazy! When I jog back home from the park after pumping out high reps dips, my pecs feel like they're jiggling.
Sounds a bit sus, but that's what it is.
Yeah and i feel like if i stop working out i will have ladys tiddies
In the squat analogy the pecs are the glutes, so it checks out
@@junkiedropouts3186 I think shoulders are glutes in that analogy. Triceps are quads and bicels are hams.
Bro the similarity of mechanics in dips and squat you just said is an amazing point.
This is the craziest he’s looked
And on a vegan diet too, thank you!
@@AlexLeonidaswhat ??? You lost me there bro what???
@@yassir6359 Yeah bro 100% since January 1st
@@AlexLeonidas Brother Alex ,
with all due respect you look too good to be vegan ; is the natty king no longer with us ?! ( take it as a compliment but is there a video explaining why vegan?)
@@yassir6359 he said it in one qna video that he doesnt consume meat anymore due to moral reasons and i believe due to quality of meat dropping
Street Calisthenics is pure positive vibes.
Alex pulling out the shredded footages again 😂
It's new footage!
Probably one of my strongest exercises, perhaps even better than my flat bench. I absolutely love dips!
You gotta compete again man! Looking insane
I would've, too bad the next comp is in 3 months!
One of the best natural channels on the Tube hands down
Holy crap Alex i dodnt even know that was you. I used to watch you a couple years ago. You have gotten shredded. Looking good bro, and you are correct dips are king of upper body exercises.
Hey Alex! I'm from Brazil and your tips are helping me a lot! 🇧🇷💪🏼✊🏻
The natty limit: 😈
Alex: 👹👹👹
Only able to do dips starting this year.
Love the movement. Definitely my current go to chest exercise.
Quite possibly my favourite exercise
You are a good teacher.
Please do a video on your preferred vegan protein sources.
Ahhhh the dips appreciation video ❤
The best chest workout!
I love dips. been doing them for over a year now
Weighted lengthened partial dips with a pause at the bottom and only locking out at the top once you start feeling fatigue after 7 or 8 reps is amazing for your shoulders and chest
Alex looking like Goku 😮
Given the distinction based on your conditioning between your clavicular fibers and your sternal fibers as well as the great separation of your front delts, I'm going to go out on a limb here and say I think when you do dips in that manner you are doing a great job of hitting the entire pack and not just the lower portions because the stretch you get in the front doors and the clavicular fibers is very extreme and a stretch under load according to my understanding is the most hypertrophic portion of any movement although there are better choices for upper chest obviously I'm going to say the dip performed with a full range of motion if your anthropometry permits you can do it this way place tremendous stretch on your upper fibers and your front belts under a load if you are doing the dips weighted or if your body weight is pretty heavy this makes for a great overall upper body push exercise it's going to nail your triceps your front delts and your entire pectoral musculature. In addition in addition there's a lot of action in the upper back and also the upper back is not necessarily a prime mover it is playing a role as an antagonist antagonist that's that means a stabilizer
I apologize for the lack of punctuation and some of the typos. I was dictating this voice recognition feature doesn't often do a great job. It's almost as if the more clearly I enunciate , the more convoluted the sentences turn out. Some of the words that the software elects to use often lead to absurd sentences with incomprehensible meaning. I hope that the readers understand what I was trying to say but unfortunately unable to proof read while driving. My sincere apologies.
Yup. Dips are the number 1 best chest exercise imo.
I have a disagreement that the dips cause forward shoulder even with the slightest imbalances (car driving, phone usage, pc usage, weak core, straight neck). I'd say avoid them, isolating machines are safer and thus better long term. Just my opinion.
and the ring dip is the child of the romance between dumbbell benches and dips. The pressure gets even more insane when the muscles have to contract even more to keep yourself stable. And you can go even deeper, stretching the pecs even further like the dumbbell fly. Shout out to the Bulgarians Alex!
I always loved dips and been doing them at the end of my upper body workouts . I wish I have a belt so I could add weights but for now it’s going really DEEP stretch of the pecs and man it feels good.
Craigslist can be useful for belt.
lmao juiced
Alex you look amazing man.
That makes sense ive squatted 325lbsx1 and dipped 140lbs x3 before but not this full rom dip style, just right about parallel on the weighted dips
Faaarken ripped mate!
Never thought of this but it makes sense and the chest is like the glutes on the squat
Looking dope Alex, giving those Matt Ogus half natty vibes
Ordering me some dip bars👍
I cant do dips sadly, I get shoulder pain because of how my collarbone healed back after I broke it.
Did 100 bodyweight dips yesterday. Feels great nothing stretches the chest like it.
Alex I’m curious, did this cut make you feel equally as drained as the last one, or did you have less negative side effects this time?
Weighed dips are my favourite upper body exercise
He looks like anime characters 😱💪👍
I can dip bodyweight + 101 Kilos 5 reps without accessories and your content has been really helpful and motivating!! Been a long journey, one day I'd love to compete and maybe even become a national street lifting champion. Dips are 🔱
What you mean femus is associated with posterior chain? I don't understand this formulation.
I feel like I’m over extending my shoulder tendons when doing dips sometimes if I go too deep… starting to feel that way with a lot of exercises if I get too big of a stretch I feel less muscle and more ligaments/tendons
Is there a better exercise to show off a physique than dips? i think not
Best fitness channel.
Are dips on a horizontal bar (like second half of a muscle up) any good for chest growth?
I've been unable to do dips, push-ups, or bench pressing for the past two years due to a cyst inside my wrist capsule. The cyst is too close to a nerve, and because of that the surgery to remove it is very risky. My doctor says I need to be patient and wait for it to be absorbed, but I feel like I'm missing out on so many gains. It's frustrating not being able to work out as I'd like to; I can only focus on pull and legs and I'm sick of it. Not being able to do any pushing exercises for two years has really changed the way my body looks, and I'm not happy about it (0 delts, 0 pecs and 0 triceps, they completely vanished...).
It's been so long, and I haven't seen any improvement. Waiting this long is really getting to me.
there are some elbow cuffs that u can clip to cable system and even adding idk a loadin pin to it, i think u could do pushing exercises withou wrist pain
@@chandragupta2605 Exactly!
And pretty much ALL gyms iv ever been inside, has that machine where you squeeze your elbows together on a couple of pads.
And even if you are not in a gym, you can train with bands outside like i do.
You can wrap a band around your wrists and then tie the other end to something low to the ground and raise your arm and get delts trained and same with pecs and tri.
So this is all his own fault (IMO) for lack of imagination.
My shoulders feel torn apart the day after attempting dips even on the assistance machine. I want to be able to do them tho
Man I developed tendencies in my elbow a few years ago doing weight dips. Took a months if me babying it to recover. I really hate the movement now and would probably only do body weight. Granted I think the Rogue Matador weird arm position might have something to do with it
I always do that. Is there a variant of this exercise?
I'm doing my body weight for reps 268 x 7
I like them for triceps more
pretty sure the build lats also
no chest shoulder and triceps
Youre Rocking that necklace well brother, congratulations on everything and i love you, from London!
Much love from Canada Mr Reic, London is wonderful!
A gentleman's gentleman, enjoy your week my friend, I look forward to more plateaus shattered by a fellow natty
I have some stinging in my front delt since a few days. Might be from dips.
If the dip is the the squat for the upper body does that mean the bench press is the upper body version of hip thrusts?
Alex I’m sure theirs plenty of variance to this question but if could make a simple reccomondation for someone who can do dips no problem when should we add weight more or less, if we can hit 10 reps or 15 or even 20? Thanks , your opinion is much respected and appreciated
Now I wanna find out what my max dip is. I haven't squatted heavy in a while, but it's hard to imagine dipping double bodyweight.
A 500lb squatter can dip 250lb? I don't see the correlation between the 2 lifts
Idk about y'all but my tibia doesn't usually bend when I squat😂😂
For an 200-220 lbs guys, what would you consider beast level @bw?
I got muscle n strength Imbalance can't do them rn
Yo facts, I can 1 rep max dip exactly the half of my 1 rep max squat
1 and a half reps on dips is money
Yeah and lengthened partials in general. Great for high reps
When should you do them? After benching?
Any brand of parrallettes you recommend for that kind of diverging arm angle you show
I like dips more than bench because you can stretch at the bottom, with a normal bar you hit your chest before you get to stretch, this problem can be solved by using a cambered bar but I don't have one :(
Arnold said the dip was the best upper body exercise
What a beast
So if both arms are equivalent to legs then.... The head is.... The head? 🤔
How many sets per session do you recommend boss ?
Did dips for years. One of the worst exercises regarding hypertrophy for chest.
is the chest expander worth it for back thickness?
Am I wrong to be doing dips on chest day rather than arm day? I make sure you try and lean forward over the bars to try and mimic more of a push up
you're not wrong at all, dips are a powerful mass building exercise.
Do you plan to stop your upcoming bulks earlier? Perhaps 80kg max?
No longer can they say bodybuilders are block heads.
We have evolved to sophisticated intellectuals who use science - reason & trial & error to achieve success .
Thank you for the amazing content King ❤
Its to hit the outer chest what you with a high to low cable machine flys it hits that part of the chest. But I wouldn't say it's a squat to the chest sure your using your weight plus additional weight but it's to outer part of e chest that you usually only hit with cables from a high position going low in a chest fly pattern going from the high position starting point to low
there is no such thing as working one part of the chest, dips for sure work the whole chest
@@red-rr4si the outer chest it hits what you do on high to low cable flies I used to do them for that.... And chest I did benching and other things I did weight dips back then
U are so massive wtf dude, i probly never seen a more sculpted physique, and from what i know, this is all natural, u are putting all this TrT degens to shame, keep going!
Cant dip to save my life, shoulders hurt od
When did bro get on the sauce?
Never, it's called losing 35lbs. Maybe if you watched my long journey you'd get it.
man ive never understood dips or how to get them to work
when you say that the total load could be around the half of your squat max.. do you mean the total weight together with your body or just the extra load? because man oh man, my dip in total weight is 200kg! 120kg body +80kg. and this is without specialisation and natty 100%
Dips destroy my shoulders. Any tips?
you can return to push-ups first, relearn your technique. You should also make some flexibility work to open your shoulders better, and don't forget working your back more. Cuban press, German hang, skin the cat, etc. If you can bang out 30 good form push-ups in a row, you can return to the dips
Dips and pulluos made me who I am today. It was my first and built my foundation on them
Whenever I do dips, I feel a bit of pain in my front shoulder, but that's not my main issue. After a day I am sore in the front shoulder area.. Anyone can help?
being sore is normal. But somehow thats your main issue?
mkaay
Reason I don't like doing dips is my right shoulder is lower then my left when I dip. It doesn't cause pain on either of my shoulders but I just look weird doing it. My guess for this is my right scapula is kinda deformed it sticks out too much while my left scapula is completely normal. I always try to move around my shoulders while dipping to find that right position but it's not working out
ive seen improvement in my shoulder posture from working my scapula from the hanging position, doing reps and holds. improving scapula strength comes before pullups and dips.
any explanation why my clavical bone hurt after doing dips? like when I do dips its perfectly fine but after i finish it the pain just appear
Do you believe in myo reps and rest-pause stuff? Im getting very sore from them on dips especially
Time saver that's it, not superior. Makes sense for calisthenics!
Dips>>>>>>>>bench press
Why do some call the pullover the squat for the upper body?
Ring dips*
I feel it all shoulders if I don't make an effort to go more horizontal.
Man, you're getting to the point where everyone is gonna start steroids accusations. That's the highest of praise for a natty!
When doing dips do you cycle that out with bench? Or keep both in the same training cycle?
How much do you weigh right now?