quick noob question about compound lifts

[JDid23]

Scotsman: that made a lot of sense to me...

TimTim: i am basing my routine off Rippetoes 3x5 Starting Strength. I am just adding some calf raises to day A and some planks/Alternate dumbbell curls to day B. I play soccer, so that is why i added the calf raises. I also understand that the tri's make up around 70% of your arm while the bicep makes up about 30%, but my right bicep is completely lacking and honestly, makes my right arm look THAT much weaker. Rippetoe has dips on Day A in his program, which is the main reason i added them. I have also been doing dips longer than i have been doing any of these exercises, which is probably why i have progressed much faster in them.

Chuck: That seems pretty logical. I was actually contemplating as to weather i should get rid of the 10 pound weight during my last set of dips today because i wasn't sure if i could do too many with them. I will try that next time.

Thanks for the advice everyone.

 

[ExtraMile]

Scotsman: that made a lot of sense to me...

TimTim: i am basing my routine off Rippetoes 3x5 Starting Strength. I am just adding some calf raises to day A and some planks/Alternate dumbbell curls to day B. I play soccer, so that is why i added the calf raises. I also understand that the tri's make up around 70% of your arm while the bicep makes up about 30%, but my right bicep is completely lacking and honestly, makes my right arm look THAT much weaker. Rippetoe has dips on Day A in his program, which is the main reason i added them. I have also been doing dips longer than i have been doing any of these exercises, which is probably why i have progressed much faster in them.

Chuck: That seems pretty logical. I was actually contemplating as to weather i should get rid of the 10 pound weight during my last set of dips today because i wasn't sure if i could do too many with them. I will try that next time.

Thanks for the advice everyone.

Yeah try the dips to higher reps, I didnt think about the joint stuff that timtim mentioned when I said to try them weighted. I fucked my RC dipping so be careful

 

[JDid23]

so i should do all of them unweighted and just grind out as many as i can? Also, i make sure i get a full ROM on my dips

 

[Big_pimpin]

Scotsman is dead right. I was getting tired of not seeing my bench progress so I decided to take a bit of a break and focus on dips and dumbell inclines. Over a period of about 2 months my inclines went up by about 20% and I went up from bodyweight to 2 45lb plates for dips.

I was all stoked to start benching again, but unfortunetly all that work didn't help on flat bench. It felt strange lying flat and trying to push a weight off my chest at that angle, and I struggled. I would say my bench dropped a little bit even though my other lifts increased.

So I learned that if I want to bench big, I need to bench.