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Mike157 said:
Only positive gains from these dips😊
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Until your shoulder or rotator cuff starts barking.

I had to quit after about 40 years of doing them for that reason. Range of motion in that position is no longer deep enough...and that was my favorite exercise, (weighted), for decades. At least I can still do standing and bench presses without the same issue.
 
Blues said:
Until your shoulder or rotator cuff starts barking.

I had to quit after about 40 years of doing them for that reason. Range of motion in that position is no longer deep enough...and that was my favorite exercise, (weighted), for decades. At least I can still do standing and bench presses without the same issue.
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I’m in the same boat. Very little overhead, and dumbbell presses to give my shoulder a bit more freedom than the bar.
 
Mike157 said:
I’m in the same boat. Very little overhead, and dumbbell presses to give my shoulder a bit more freedom than the bar.
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Like you, I use dumbbells...(I have a pair of adjustable PowerBlocks up to 125# each I've had since the 90's), kettlebells and sandbags these days. I too find a bar too constricting or problematic for some movements.

The only "bar" I use anymore is my 80 lb trap bar with olympic plates for deads or "squatlift" since it's kind of a hybrid of deadlift and squat.

I "enjoy" the workouts more, as well.
 
It is maddening operating in a world where both English and metric are common and pervasive. We have two measurement systems dictating two sets of tools and fasteners who are functionally equivalent and overlap but we have twice as many wrenches and fasteners to sort through.
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
It is maddening operating in a world where both English and metric are common and pervasive. We have two measurement systems dictating two sets of tools and fasteners who are functionally equivalent and overlap but we have twice as many wrenches and fasteners to sort through.
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100% agree.

This has never bothered me more than attempting to replace the clip screws on a Spyderco from Tiachung and learning the hard way that they were metric, not English, and I snapped of a M-something or other screw in a not-M something or other tapped hole.

Fortunaely I work in an aerospace kind of machine shop and getting it fixed was a 4 minute task. Had I not had that, the snapped screw woudl have been a major problem.
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
It is maddening operating in a world where both English and metric are common and pervasive. We have two measurement systems dictating two sets of tools and fasteners who are functionally equivalent and overlap but we have twice as many wrenches and fasteners to sort through.
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It get's even more interesting when you have a vehicle that uses both. Like my '99 Fatboy.
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
It is maddening operating in a world where both English and metric are common and pervasive. We have two measurement systems dictating two sets of tools and fasteners who are functionally equivalent and overlap but we have twice as many wrenches and fasteners to sort through.
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As the token Englishman here, I'd like to point out that we don't call it "English", we call it the Imperial System. [As an aside, what y'all call English toffee, we would never refer to as toffee - it's butterscotch.]

We also don't use it anymore - we quote long distances in miles, how fat we are in stones & pounds, and lie about what we're packing in the trouser department in inches. We still drink pints (real ones, not undersized American ones). But otherwise we use metric measurements pretty universally, and always for anything related to science or engineering. I guess that's what happens when you don't have an Empire anymore - you are forced to admit that the French got something right.

'Fraid it's just you Americans who still measure short distances in fractions of inches, or pressure in lbs per sq inch, or any of that nonsense. And don't even get me started on Fahrenheit - you can't pin that shit on us!
 
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Brummie said:
As the token Englishman here, I'd like to point out that we don't call it "English", we call it the Imperial System. [As an aside, what y'all call English toffee, we would never refer to as toffee - it's butterscotch.]

We also don't use it anymore - we quote long distances in miles, how fat we are in stones & pounds, and lie about what we're packing in the trouser department in inches. We still drink pints (real ones, not undersized American ones). But otherwise we use metric measurements pretty universally, and always for anything related to science or engineering. I guess that's what happens when you don't have an Empire anymore - you are forced to admit that the French got something right.

'Fraid it's just you Americans who still measure short distances in fractions of inches, or pressure in lbs per sq inch, or any of that nonsense.
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Brummie said:
As the token Englishman here, I'd like to point out that we don't call it "English", we call it the Imperial System. [As an aside, what y'all call English toffee, we would never refer to as toffee - it's butterscotch.]

We also don't use it anymore - we quote long distances in miles, how fat we are in stones & pounds, and lie about what we're packing in the trouser department in inches. We still drink pints (real ones, not undersized American ones). But otherwise we use metric measurements pretty universally, and always for anything related to science or engineering. I guess that's what happens when you don't have an Empire anymore - you are forced to admit that the French got something right.

'Fraid it's just you Americans who still measure short distances in fractions of inches, or pressure in lbs per sq inch, or any of that nonsense. And don't even get me started on Fahrenheit - you can't pin that shit on us!
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I'm not calling it the imperial system, that sounds like Star Wars. Since it's pretty much only used in Americal now, how about "the only country that has ever put a man on the moon" system, or perhaps "the unit of measure used when man first achieved powered flight" system. Idunno....
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
I'm not calling it the imperial system, that sounds like Star Wars. Since it's pretty much only used in Americal now, how about "the only country that has ever put a man on the moon" system, or perhaps "the unit of measure used when man first achieved powered flight" system. Idunno....
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Let's call it "Ametric." Grammatically accurate and sneaks a little "Murica!" in there.
 
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