Scapula dips

How to do it

1. 1Start standing with your feet shoulder-width apart and arms extended in front of you.
2. 2Slightly bend the knees and hinge forward at the hips, keeping your back straight.
3. 3Lower your body by bending the elbows and retracting your scapulae, as if trying to pinch a pencil between them.
4. 4Pause briefly in the low position, then push through your hands to extend the elbows and return to the starting position.
5. 5Repeat for the desired number of reps.

More traps exercises

• Dumbbell incline shrugDumbbells
• Lever gripless shrugLeverage machine
• Smith back shrugSmith machine
• Lever gripless shrug v. 2Leverage machine
• Dumbbell decline shrug v. 2Dumbbells
• Dumbbell decline shrugDumbbells
• Cable shrugCable
• Scapular pull-upBodyweight

This page is for information and doesn’t replace a professional. If you have an injury or a medical condition, ask first. Data from the open catalogue hasaneyldrm/exercises-dataset, MIT licence.