Muscle Spasms

[Jimmy0]

I have been doing dips the past month or two, and I get what I can only describe as muscle spasms in my triceps.

It happens as soon as I finish a set and get off the bar, my muscles just seem to spasm for a second or two and it feels very odd / slightly painful.

I don't get this performing any other exercise... just wandering if anyone else experiences the same feeling, or if there is something I can do to stop it from happening?

[Deviation]

What muscles are twitching? Are you doing weighted dips? Could be the way you position your hands. Hard to say.

[Jimmy0]

Would say it was my triceps that were twitching. Just bodyweight, still can't even do 3 sets of 8, so nowhere near needing extra weights.

I am just gripping the bar like the two fellows in the following pics: (I don't see how there would be any other way of doing it?)

http://articles.elitefts.com/wp-cont...010/11/dip.jpg
http://www.acefitness.org/exerciseli...arge/159-5.jpg

Perhaps my triceps are just overly weak... who knows! It literally is just a 1-2 second spasm after releasing the tension and getting off, nothing painful enough to stop me doing them or anything like that. Just hadn't experienced a twitch like that in my muscles before.

[OptikaNET]

I get a slightly unpleasant "vibrating" feel in my triceps at the lowest point of the dip which I often worry is a sign I'm in danger of over-exerting myself, but it never actually becomes a problem.

Is it something like this?

Kind Regards
Dave

(Who also hasn't quite achieved bodyweight in dips... Actually a long way off!!!)

[Jimmy0]

Hmm I am not sure to be honest! I will write back here the next time I do dips so the experience is fresh in my mind.

(And hey, I remember a couple months ago I could barely do 2 dips in a row, now I can roughly do 3 sets of 5... progress, progress, progress!)

[OptikaNET]

We have an assisted-dips machine at our gym. So I can do the full four sets of twelve reps, but at a greatly reduced bodyweight!!!

Kind Regards
Dave

[Jimmy0]

We have an assisted-dips machine at our gym. So I can do the full four sets of twelve reps, but at a greatly reduced bodyweight!!!

Kind Regards
Dave

Yeah there is one of those at the gym I go to, but guaranteed that there is always someone on it, so I just push out as many dips as possible each week on the bar without the assists!

[OptikaNET]

You might make progress faster if you have greater volume by using the assisted dips. Maybe complete standard ones with full bodyweight while you wait for the assisted dips machine to become available, then max out your reps on an assisted weight.

I really wish JEFIT would support negative values for input. Better still if "Bodyweight" was an option for input. And "bodyweight minus selected"... etc...

I do assisted-weight dips, triceps dips and pull-ups all of which are a pain to log as they involve all kinds of mental arithemetic that I find hard even when I'm not tired!

Kind Regards
Dave

[Jimmy0]

You might make progress faster if you have greater volume by using the assisted dips. Maybe complete standard ones with full bodyweight while you wait for the assisted dips machine to become available, then max out your reps on an assisted weight.

I really wish JEFIT would support negative values for input. Better still if "Bodyweight" was an option for input. And "bodyweight minus selected"... etc...

I do assisted-weight dips, triceps dips and pull-ups all of which are a pain to log as they involve all kinds of mental arithemetic that I find hard even when I'm not tired!

Kind Regards
Dave

Yeah you could be right there, would help my pullups massively too I feel if I use the assistance machine and get the volume in, rather than simply being unable to without it.

Will start keeping my eye on the machine inbetween sets and jumping on it if it becomes free!

[OptikaNET]

I've been surprised by how quickly I've been able to reduce the assisting weight. Dips was always an exercise I avoided because I just couldn't do them, but I've been able to improve a lot since using the assisted-dips.

Kind Regards
Dave