IronMindDe Rigueur Dipping Belt — Handles Half Ton Chins & Dips With Ease

Besides a pair of rings, which most any generic type will suffice, a dip belt is the most important piece of upper body training equipment one can buy. But with these type of belts, brand matters. This belt is simple and incredibly effective. There is no chance of it breaking for any rational amount of weight to be used (a few hundred pounds for dips and pull-ups) and is leagues more comfortable than the leather and chain belts, which are prone to breaking anyway. The loading may take slightly longer but if you use it frequently enough you won't even notice it and you'll get much faster. This is the third one I've bought because I've either misplaced or had stolen my other two. But good, lightweight equipment will always go missing in the military if you're not vigilant enough. The price is high but it will last and last, and is most effective for people into serious upper body strength gains in my opinion.

The university gym I use has one or two dip/chin belts that are shared between everybody. Needless to say, it's usually impossible to find one, and/or if you do find it, have it be available.I wanted a reliable dip/chin belt that I could easily loop through KB's or plates, with plenty of strap to avoid dinging myself in the swing-easy, comfortable around the hips when the load was heavy, and light enough to stuff in a small bag that would fit in a tiny locker.This belt does that, and more. It's awesome, it's tough, it's ridiculously light and soft compared to the typical, cheap leather-and-chain models that most gyms have. And it's Ironmind: so it's stylish and fancy looking for all of the ladies (or dudes, if that's your thing -I don't judge).I have a handful of Ironmind stuff: straps, clothing, eagleloops, etc. The point being that it works, it's tough, it handles being beat up and used for a long period of time, and it all fits into a bag and/or tiny locker.

I had been looking online originally for a weight vest, so I could do weighted pull-ups, dips, and other stuff. I realized that to get a high quality weight vest with metal plates instead of sandbags would be expensive so I started looking at dipping belts since I already have enough weight plates at home.This thing is really sturdy; it is really light (1-2 pounds), but the construction and feel of it convince me that it could really hold 1000 pounds. The belt conforms well, is padded in the back, and is not at all uncomfortable to wear.Loading plates takes a little bit if you don't have a loading pin, and I find it helpful to use a weight bench to rest the plates on when running the strap through them. To increase the weight, I have found it best to use the biggest plates I can, because having too many plates will make this slip and feel like it will fall off, unless you keep a wide stance.My only complaint about this belt is that the part of the strap where my weight plates go is starting to fray a bit and I have had this for only a week or two. I am thinking on trying to wrap that part of the strap in duct tape or some other form of sleeve, just to prevent it from fraying any more, or I might just try a loading pin.Overall, a very good and solidly made product and I would certainly buy this or other products by Ironmind again.

My first use of this belt I was skeptical to say the least, loading X amount of weight onto the belt and it staying in place using no more than your hips and friction. But it grows on you after several uses. If it does slide down a little bit all you have to do is pull it right back up to where it is comfortable.It is a very sturdy belt, I have loaded 125lbs onto it so far and it works great. The only problem with the belt is that it can be a pain when looping the strap through the weights because the belt will want to fall to the ground and you have to simultaneously hold the weights up against your leg while crouching or at least setting them up on somthing higher than ground level to gather the slack. The double-buckle system the belt uses is great; once you pull the slack tight, the weights aren't going anywhere. But by no means is it a fault with just this belt alone, you will find it with every dipping belt so it's not even a con when looking at the overall product.As for price, I don't think it's bad at all considering you are getting the best quality belt there is, and for only 20-30 dollars more than the competitors.

So much worse than a normal dipping belt. To change the weight you have to remove the strap from the bucket, load the weight, and then reattach the strap. It's a huge pain to change out weight. Unless you have a loading pin, stay way. Besides, there nothing wrong with the classic dipping belt.

I'm not sure what possessed the makers of this product to use a buckle, but this belt basically requires two people to use it with any real weight. I understand now why they discuss the use of additional equipment to make this "useable" as it isn't in it's out of the box configuration. Basically you have to "build" another dipping belt to make this one somewhat useable. The instructions indicate you should use a "double loop" for safety, but the instructions fail to tell you what that means exactly. My interpretation of what that would mean (looping the strap through the buckle twice) is not possible. Truly a frustrating product. Especially at this price.