A guided dip that blasts your triceps with no balance needed.
Push through your palms and lock out, keep your chest tall.
The seated dip machine takes the dip's pressing pattern, locks it into a fixed path, and lets you drive the handles down with nothing to balance. Your triceps own the lockout while the chest assists out of the stretched top position. That stability is the whole appeal: you can load it heavy or push to failure without worrying about wobbling between two bars.
It trains the same pressing muscles with far less shoulder and stability demand, so it is a great place to build strength before bodyweight dips, or to keep pushing after them. Bar dips train more control, the machine lets you load more safely.
Sit tall, tuck your elbows close to your ribs and finish every rep at full lockout. The more upright your torso and the tighter the elbows, the more the triceps take over from the chest.
Ride them back until you feel a genuine stretch through the triceps and chest, without letting the weight stack settle. Cutting that top half of the range turns it into an expensive half press.
