Listen, don't blame the exercise ... some of us went about things in a way that could have been better.
The guy I told you about did negatives to an extreme. He realizes that now.
My injury was because of a couple of things ;
One was that I was supposed to be 'off' training for two weeks as I had just reached another goal I set for myself, 405 X 15 in the trap bar deadlift.
I then happened to visit a friend who managed a World Gym in Florida and thought it would be a shame not to take advantage of having a workout in such a nice gym compared to where I usually trained which was pretty much a ****-hole.
I decided to tune down the workout poundages but couldn't back up when it came to the dips - because I'm an asshole. The second thing was made it worse was that I felt tired and a bit overtrained and the dipping bars were much wider than I was used to , yet couldn't make myself reduce the weight even for one fucking workout. Can you say STEWPITT ????:blink:
This **** that happened to me easily could have been prevented ... and the sad part is I KNEW I was fucking up but still went ahead anyway. It wasn't the dips - it was how and when I did thanm that fucked me up.
Anyway, I'm fine now and I would just tell you to be careful about things. Let what happened to me teach you something.
Also, when I went to the doctor and told him I thought I had a torn rotator cuff by doing dips, he immediately said 'NO WAY', that the rotator could stand what I did , that usually a RC injury is a quick, unnatural movement that fucks it up. That was when he right away said mine was a minor tear of the pec minor .
Hope this makes you feel better and continue dipping ... I still believe it's one of the best upperbody movements you can do and you are certainly stong it it. Just be careful and train smart ; I just happened to let my guard down for a week and it KO'ed my dumb ass . :icon_lol:
BTW, that was the only training injury I had in 20 years of training.