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Old 10-09-2007, 09:43 AM
EricT EricT is offline
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On the dips that is your AC joint if if it's anything. Guarantee it. Last thing you need to do is worry about going deeper. Some things that you MAY be doing that can aggravate this is having the hands behind you. Like when people do bench dips with their feet up. If the hands are behind you that will increase stress on the AC...put them beside you even if you are using dip bars. Wider grip would definitely not be better. Don't do them with the body completely upright...lean forward into it. Maybe around 45 dergrees. Also, you may be favoring the dominant side if one side hurt more. Try to make sure the body is even and not leaning one way or another. Given all that, being that it's already hurting you may end up wanting to avoid them altogether. You do NOT want to screw up you AC joint. It's just one exercise among many whereas you only have one set of shoulders.

On the pullups all I can say is that I don't pay a lot of attention but I don't think I personally extend my elbows all the way. Although I sometimes do. I don't bounce either though. If just extending the elbows causes that much pain then I would think you were bouncing on them at the bottom. I don't know. The grip is totally up to you. I find the pull-up grip to be the most comfortable overall.
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If you act sanctimonious I will just list out your logical fallacies until you get pissed off and spew blasphemous remarks.
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