Weighted Dips F'd up my Solar Plexis??

[Synpax]

So I switched gym lately and today was the second time I started doing my dips on the new gym's dip bars.

I am going from a small gym to a Golds (in Arlington VA).

The dip bars are a little further apart and have narrower handles. They aren't as comfortable as the old gym's dip bars that were thicker and closer together.

Anyway, I do dips 5x5 and did them with extra 52.5 lbs on the belt. Not much by standards around these parts. This was after doing my chest work (incline BB, flat DB, incline DB fly).

So I started to notice I was feeling a pain in my chest while I was doing them - stress right in the solar plexis area. After I finished, I tried to do a few without the weight belt and still felt that pain. And I still feel the pain now.

Any idea what's up with this?

 

[SouthernLord]

This happens to me sometimes. I find that doing some dynamic chest stretches prior to the dips help to alleviate this. Looking up through the lift helps me too. Sometimes my sternum actually pops after doing weighted dips.

 

[Synpax]

So me and jocephus are the only two guys who do weighted dips?

 

[Singleton]

The problem with dip stations is they're fixed distance.

We all have different shoulder widths. Mine are wide.

Best thing for me:

Take two adjacent dipstations that are not bolted down, spread tehm apart, not quite parallel, not quite at a "V", That way I can use one handle from each station.

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[Scotsman]

I'd say that since it is a wider set up than you are used to that you probably were just getting a deeper stretch than at your old gym. How was your recovery as compared to using the narrower grip?

Cheers,
Scotsman

 

[Synpax]

I'd say that since it is a wider set up than you are used to that you probably were just getting a deeper stretch than at your old gym. How was your recovery as compared to using the narrower grip?

Cheers,
Scotsman

I don't think the dips were harder to do or that my tris got a better workout, but my hands hurt more from the dip angle and my chest STILL hurts. I'd never had these issues before.

This was the 2nd time I did dips on this new setup.

 

[ALIN]

So I switched gym lately and today was the second time I started doing my dips on the new gym's dip bars.

I am going from a small gym to a Golds (in Arlington VA).

The dip bars are a little further apart and have narrower handles. They aren't as comfortable as the old gym's dip bars that were thicker and closer together.

Anyway, I do dips 5x5 and did them with extra 52.5 lbs on the belt. Not much by standards around these parts. This was after doing my chest work (incline BB, flat DB, incline DB fly).

So I started to notice I was feeling a pain in my chest while I was doing them - stress right in the solar plexis area. After I finished, I tried to do a few without the weight belt and still felt that pain. And I still feel the pain now.

Any idea what's up with this?

if its hurting you,,,ditch the exercise