How To Do Intermediate Triceps Dips Video

Work out the triceps with intermediate triceps dips. Learn about exercises for arm strength in this training video.

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Don't flare elbows & stay straight back
Upper arms should be parallel to floor
Keep core tight

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Michelle is a personal trainer at a gym in NC and has been a personal trainer for several years. She is certified through ACE and is a certified aerobics instructor as well. Her Specialty is weight lifting and she enjoys training aspiring female body builders as she is one herself. She focuses on helping her clients stronger, healthier, and sending them out feeling better for it. The best part of her job is when she see people living a better life as a result of the physical training. She was also a Marine physical trainer before she was employed at the gym.

MICHELLE TRAPP: We're going to be doing intermediate tricep dips. In order to get to the intermediate level, what you're going to have at your gym is a pull-up assist machine. Most gyms will have one. If you're not sure of where it is, just check at the front desk and someone will be able to direct you to one. What the assist part is is this right here. This is going to be helping me get up and down in my tricep dip. I'm going to stand on this, this is my start and my end right here. We're working the triceps, that the muscles on the back of the arm. So we're going to come down, my elbows coming straight back, and I'm going to come up to the top and I'm going to squeeze my triceps. My abs are tight, my shoulders are back, my chest is high, down and up. Don't cheat yourself with partial reps. If you can only get partial reps, then this one, you can actually add more weight to help you. So we're going to come down, up and squeeze those triceps. Down and up. Inhale on the way down, exhale on the way up. This is a great exercise to do, 3 to 4 sets, anywhere from 8 to 12 reps is a good rep range. So this is your intermediate tricep dip. Remember, find yourself a dip machine, elbows aren't flaring out, they're coming straight back. Upper arms come parallel to the floor. We're going to press up. We're going to squeeze keeping our core tight. When you're finished, back off. It's the intermediate tricep dip.

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