Difference between barbells & dumbbells?

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  • Gt3ch
    Gt3ch Posts: 212 Member
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    It's different. Pressing with dumbbell, like you say uses more of the weaker stabilizer muscles. It's also a different motion because you can bring the dumbbell together as you press up instead of just pressing straight up. I have a crappy gym so the max dumbbells are 50lbs. It's a complete waste of time to press them unless I'm pre-exhausted. But even in better gyms you're not really gonna be able to bench hundreds of lbs using dumbbells. You have to go to the barbells or machines for bigboy weights. So I hit the dumbells only after I've done 5 or 6 sets of big boy weights with barbells. Then after the barbells I hit the bench-press machine because it's completely safe to fail on.
  • DavPul
    DavPul Posts: 61,406 Member
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    Wait, are we certain that MoreBean didn't open a 2nd account and she's trolling us with this post? Can anyone prove this isn't the case?

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