Parallel Bar Dips

Exercise / Calisthenic, Chest, Triceps

How to do Parallel Bar Dips

Parallel Bar Dips

Parallel Bar Dips Benefits

  • Parallel bar dips are a compound exercise as they worked multiple muscle groups simultaneously. Although this bodyweight exercise mainly targets the triceps, it also hits your chest and front of your shoulder.
  • Parallel bar dips are one of the most effective exercises to increase arm strength and also build lean muscle in your upper arms.
  • Parallel bar dips are a closed kinetic chain exercise and express that you do the movements around a fixed point. It increases compression force on your joints thereby improving stability.

Muscles Worked in the Parallel Bar Dips

Target - Triceps
Synergists - Anterior Deltoid
Synergists - Pectoralis Major, Sternal
Synergists - Pectoralis Major, Clavicular
Synergists - Pectoralis Minor
Synergists - Rhomboids
Synergists - Levator Scapulae
Synergists - Latissimus Dorsi
Dynamic Stabilizers - Biceps Brachii
Stabilizers - Lower Trapezius
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