Tricep Dips

Teaching points

• Sit with your back to a bench or chair
  
  
• Place your hands on the bench so your fingers are pointing to you
  
  
• Lift your buttocks off the ground and straighten your legs so only your heels are on the floor
  
  
• Bend your elbows out behind you to lower your buttocks towards the floor
  
  
• Push back up until your elbows are straight

Variations & progressions

• Perform with the feet raised up on another chair or bench to increase the difficulty

Muscles worked

• Triceps Brachii
  
  
• Pectoralis Major

Alternative exercises

• Tricep extension using a resistance band
  
  
• Overhead tricep extension using a resistance band
  
  
• Tricep kickback
  
  
• Assisted dips

Related injuries

• Inflammation or rupture of the triceps tendon