How do you most effectively target the chest during dips? (This is not a beginner question: keep reading)
Almost every fitness expert on youtube says to do dips with legs behind you and leaning forward to target chest and legs in front to target triceps.
For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN6Q1UI_xkE
Alternatively "Gironda dips" require you to keep your legs forward to get a deeper stretch and total pec activation.
See this example at 2:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHUx3kQn9aI
When your legs are in front of you, it lets you sink a little bit deeper giving a greater stretch on your pecs without hurting your shoulders as much. Should this be better for chest gains then?
Anecdotally, after trying out the gironda version after a year of doing the legs behind you version I found that the gironda version is able to consistently give me a full chest pump (including upper chest) where as the other version gives me a front delt and lower chest pump. I know pump isn't a measure of effectiveness but when comparing variations of the same exercise it might be providing some insight as to which area of muscle is the focus of each variation.
Can anyone confirm my findings or offer any insight as to which one is the best for chest?
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