Push Intermediate
Rank #16 of 100
Parallel Bar Dip
Suspended between two bars, you lower until the shoulders dip below the elbows and press back to lockout — the king of bodyweight pressing.
- Equipment
- Parallel bars
- Focus
- Press the world away
Muscles worked
- Chest
- Triceps
- Front Delts
How to do it well
- 1 Lean forward for chest, stay upright for triceps.
- 2 Lower to roughly 90 degrees at the elbow.
- 3 Depress the shoulders; never shrug at the bottom.
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