Urgent Help, Diffculty doing dips

• borntolive

  1 May 07, 22:08

  i have this prob while doing dips that prevent me from doing it properly.
  
  when i go down, my shoudler hurts alot in addition to my arm which is less painful . wads wrong?
  
  i do dips as my 1st exercise n i still have this prob. i have no prob doing mili press n chinups leh
• OPT

  2 May 07, 07:02

  Could be impingement of the anterior capsule.
  
  http://orthoinfo.aaos.org/fact/thr_report.cfm?thread_id=133&topcategory=shoulder
  
  Are your shoulders forward when standing upright? Does your scapular wing?
  
• Simon Dean

  2 May 07, 12:53

  i am beginning to get this problem as well whilst doing dips.
  
  Can you help me, OPT.
  
  And i notice i hunch a little foward now.I think its due to excessive benching in my early training years(3 years ago)
• Por_Favor

  6 May 07, 08:21

  Mine happened to be the chest, now laying off from dips for a while, i did some dips recently and felt sharp pains at the centre of my chest, feels as though the bones were poking through my flesh...