Dips can be a challenging and beneficial upper-body exercise, helping to strengthen the pectorals and triceps. Most gyms have some type of dip bar or parallel bars, but they're also a relatively inexpensive and simple thing to make at your own home.
Your dip bars can be made with PVC piping or two-by-fours, but when you make them using four-by-four wooden posts and galvanized metal piping, your dip bar can double as a pullup bar or a hanging bar for hanging leg raises. For dips, the bars should be set at a width that is just slightly wider than the distance between your two shoulders. If more than one person wants to use the dip bar and you have a shoulder width that is very different than the other person's, you can create different widths on the two ends of the structure. Set the width between the center of the holes on one end of the structure to one person's shoulder width plus 6 inches and the width between the center of the holes on the opposite end to the other person's shoulder width plus 6 inches.
When you put up the bars, they will not be exactly parallel, but it will allow you to do dips with bars that have a variety of distances between them. Copyright ©2019Leaf Group Ltd.Use of this web site constitutes acceptance of the LIVESTRONG.COM,and.The material appearing on LIVESTRONG.COM is for educational use only. It should not beused as a substitute for professional medical advice,diagnosis or treatment. LIVESTRONG is a registered trademark of the LIVESTRONG Foundation.The LIVESTRONG Foundation and LIVESTRONG.COM do not endorseany of the products or services that are advertised on the web site.Moreover, we do not select every advertiser or advertisement that appears on the web site-many of theadvertisements are served by third party advertising companies.
The dip bar, which has three adjustments for width, is very sturdy and is better, in my opinion, than floor stand dip bars without that ability to adjust width. This is overall a quality piece of equipment. I am very pleased and pleasantly surprised with this purchase. Most gyms have some type of dip bar or parallel bars, but they're also a relatively inexpensive. It should be 2 feet into the ground and 8 inches in diameter.
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