Why the FUCK can't I do this exercise without totally snapping

>>42089416
lol you're fucked if you cant do this weighted let alone at all, go ahead and just start taking estrogen now.

A lot of people have a ribcage structure that won't allow to do the exercise safely without snapping your sternum up,so yeah,do some more benching instead.
You really dont want a messed up sternum.

>>42089416
this killed my chest when i started doing them but after a year of pushing through / avoiding it and benching instead the pain subsided

>>42089416
do something else or you fuck yourself up permanently.

I have the same problem, op.
The funny thing is I was able to the dips just fine some half a year ago.
Now my sternum kills me everytime i try to do them.
I dont get it. Nothing changed except I got slightly stronger and gained about 4 kg of weight.
Its like one day my body decided it doesnt want me to do this exercise anymore.

>>42089481
I also do wide elbow dips for dem chest gains

Bench press never really feels like it hits my chest enough.

>>42089416
just do weighted pushups.
It makes you stronger than if you were doing dips anyway.

>>42089424
>you're fucked if you cant do this weighted let alone at all

you've got these the wrong way around. unweighted is easier than weighted, so it should be "unweighted let alone weighted".

>>42090018
No he had it right, saying you should easily be able to do it weighted, much less having trouble with it unweighted.

>>42090018
no you've got it the wrong way around. He's clearly implying it's an exercise most people should have no trouble doing weighted, let alone having trouble doing it unweighted.

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if you cant do this unweighted then youre a genetic failure sorry better spend your time doing something else

It's related to your bone structure. If you can't even do them with just body weight without pain then just do something else like bench press.