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Originally Posted by healer
I thought dips were an exercise that targeted the triceps more than any other muscle...  |
Depends on how you do them. Incline your body forward a bit and keep your arms relatively close to the body while you dip, and you'll feel it in the chest more. When you get used to the exercise, you also can also consciously make your chest do more of the flexing than the triceps. If you keep your body in an upright position, the triceps do more of the work.
As for there not being exercises that effectively work specific parts of the chest; not in my experience. I can literally feel what part of the pec muscle takes the strain from particular exercises. Keep in mind also that when we talk about the pecs, we're actually talking about two different muscles (on each side, of course) the pectoralis major and minor.