March Check-in

ksuh999

My friends that are not familiar with this program suggested that I switch from benchpress with a barbell to presses with dumbbells and less weight. Their reasoning was that they could tell I had the strength to put up the weight, but my stabilizing muscles are lagging behind and need to be better developed before I can start seeing progression with the bench. They say the dumbbell presses will help with the stabilization and when i get back to the higher weights with the barbell it will be easier for me. Anyone else have thoughts? I know that isn't the program - but I find myself agreeing more with the spirit of the program than the actual cut and dry instructions.

Ignore them. Medhi has had questions on this several times and always says to use the bar and not dumbbells.

Yup. You're actually better off using the barbell to strengthen your stabilizer muscles - try to keep the bar level. When you use dumbbells you can never do this properly.