What Do Dips Work?

Dips help strengthen the muscles in your: chest, shoulders, triceps, upper back, and lower back. When done correctly, weighted dips can add muscle mass to your upper body. This exercise can also help build your strength for other exercises like bench presses.

What do dips work the most?

A dip is an upper-body strength exercise. Narrow, shoulder-width dips only train the triceps, with major synergists being the anterior deltoid, the pectoralis muscles (sternal, clavicular, and minor), and the rhomboid muscles of the back (in that order).

Are dips for triceps or chest?

Dips can be used for both targeting your chest as well as tricep muscles. You just have to make little changes in your angles and arm position for that.