Triceps Dips on Floor

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Triceps Dips on Floor

Triceps dips on the floor are a bodyweight exercise that target the triceps, chest, and shoulders. This exercise can be done almost anywhere without any equipment and is a great way to work your upper body and build strength in your triceps, chest, and shoulders.

How To do:

Triceps dips on floors

  1. Sit on the floor with your knees bent and your feet flat on the ground.
  2. Place your hands on the floor behind you with your fingers facing forward.
  3. Lift your hips off the ground, keeping your elbows straight.
  4. Bend your elbows to lower your body towards the ground, keeping your shoulders down and your back straight.
  5. Pause for a moment at the bottom of the movement, then push back up to the starting position by straightening your arms.

Triceps Dips on Floor – Benefits

  • Triceps dips on floor 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.
  • Triceps dips on floor are one of the most effective bodyweight exercises to increase arm strength and also build lean muscle in your upper arms.
  • Triceps dips on floor 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.

Triceps Dips on Floor – Muscles Worked

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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