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Has anyone used VKR Power Tower for dips? Or any dip machine similar to this? How is it?
http://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/vkr-powe.../6000064578624
It is pretty expensive (I said I was in poverty & my family is dead poor). This price dents me pretty badly, so I was wondering whether I should buy it or not. Someone suggested me to use chairs for dips, but I tried it before he told me (someone else also suggested that), but I can't quite do it with the chairs. Some of my chairs have the backs kind of diagonally leaning back instead of straight up. The other chairs that have straight backs, they are too light and they wobble too much and even get flipped over while I lift up or down. Hard to focus the balance. Not sure if that gives a better workout or not, but I would rather do dips in a more solid station.
Probably better for me to join a bodybuilding forum instead of asking at a boxing forum's training & nutrition subsection, but I didn't want to bother registering to another website. Besides, I am 90% sure to buy this anyway regardless of someone having high or low view on this machine.
The upside is that I am in the middle of weight loss right now, and I have no stamina. Push up uses more stamina (which I don't have during the weight loss with eating like 100 calories per day) than muscles, so dips actually can gain me more muscles than push ups as my muscles get tired faster than my stamina runs out. Also, I tried push ups "correctly" and didn't like it, so I would rather do dips (there is no "correct" way of doing it, you just bend the elbows 90 degrees without bending further). Also, one of my boxing coaches when I had attended gyms spoke of dips higher than push ups. You have no idea how out of stamina it feels to eat 100 calories per day & to have lost weight from 82kg to 60kg.
I think I will aim doing 50 dips at once because this guy seems to be in a little better shape than Gennady Golovkin, & he does 50 dips (so, Golovkin probably can't do 50 dips). I also want a pull up bar, but I don't have the money nor a room to install such. I think I will ignore push ups.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpLQaeQbHhM
It helps to see "someone who looks like what" does "how many what" so that I know how many I should do to look like that or to last 10 rounds punching (& to knock out someone with 1 clean heavy shot at the liver).
For the record, that's how I used to do push up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEnnCNecwgY
My chest doesn't touch the floor, and I don't straighten arms 100%. Thought that was good enough though. Anyway, I am switching to dips. Whatever the fuss is about "correct" push up, none of my business. I am doing dips instead of push ups now.
http://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/vkr-powe.../6000064578624
It is pretty expensive (I said I was in poverty & my family is dead poor). This price dents me pretty badly, so I was wondering whether I should buy it or not. Someone suggested me to use chairs for dips, but I tried it before he told me (someone else also suggested that), but I can't quite do it with the chairs. Some of my chairs have the backs kind of diagonally leaning back instead of straight up. The other chairs that have straight backs, they are too light and they wobble too much and even get flipped over while I lift up or down. Hard to focus the balance. Not sure if that gives a better workout or not, but I would rather do dips in a more solid station.
Probably better for me to join a bodybuilding forum instead of asking at a boxing forum's training & nutrition subsection, but I didn't want to bother registering to another website. Besides, I am 90% sure to buy this anyway regardless of someone having high or low view on this machine.
The upside is that I am in the middle of weight loss right now, and I have no stamina. Push up uses more stamina (which I don't have during the weight loss with eating like 100 calories per day) than muscles, so dips actually can gain me more muscles than push ups as my muscles get tired faster than my stamina runs out. Also, I tried push ups "correctly" and didn't like it, so I would rather do dips (there is no "correct" way of doing it, you just bend the elbows 90 degrees without bending further). Also, one of my boxing coaches when I had attended gyms spoke of dips higher than push ups. You have no idea how out of stamina it feels to eat 100 calories per day & to have lost weight from 82kg to 60kg.
I think I will aim doing 50 dips at once because this guy seems to be in a little better shape than Gennady Golovkin, & he does 50 dips (so, Golovkin probably can't do 50 dips). I also want a pull up bar, but I don't have the money nor a room to install such. I think I will ignore push ups.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpLQaeQbHhM
It helps to see "someone who looks like what" does "how many what" so that I know how many I should do to look like that or to last 10 rounds punching (& to knock out someone with 1 clean heavy shot at the liver).
For the record, that's how I used to do push up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEnnCNecwgY
My chest doesn't touch the floor, and I don't straighten arms 100%. Thought that was good enough though. Anyway, I am switching to dips. Whatever the fuss is about "correct" push up, none of my business. I am doing dips instead of push ups now.
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