Talk:Dip (exercise)

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[edit] Latissimus dorsi

I do not believe that the latissimus dorsi muscles affect this exercise in any way. Those muscles pull the arms toward the back. In the dip, the arms move toward the back when the exerciser is lowering his body, in which case gravity is doing the work, not the latissimus dorsi. The main muscles which contribute to the execution of this exercise are the pectoralis major (from the bottom to about three quarters of the way up) and the triceps. The triceps do relatively little in the lower portion of the exercise and increase in significance as the exerciser straightens his arms out. Near the top, the pectoralis major does little if anything. At no point are the latissimus dorsi contributing in the execution of the dip. Raoulduke25 (talk) 18:30, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Improper subject/verb agreement

This article, in addition to being incorrect on matters pertaining to muscular mechanics, does not show proper subject/verb agreement throughout. A "person" is singular and "their" is plural. You cannot say, "A person supports their weight," if the antecedent of the pronoun "their" is "person". That is not proper grammar.

And WikiPedia most certainly does NOT support this absurd non-grammatical nonsense. The website listed was WP:GNL but that website uses they and their by pluralizing both subject AND predicate, not just one or the other. Read the link! It says: "Pluralizing (not “A player starts by taking up his position”, but “Players start by taking up their positions”), although this can be problematic where the text needs to emphasize individuals, or where it creates a need to switch regularly between singular and plural." Raoulduke25 17:29, 3 December 2007 (UTC)