I was always confident that the dumbbell bench press was superior to building muscle, but after researching this video I realized that all the back and forth between the dumbbell and barbell was just holding back my gains because the dumbbells are OVER 9000 SUPERIOR!

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Ive been adding in dumbbells again to my bench pressing. Definitely feel a much stronger contraction

I do 3-6 sets of 8 barbell flat and incline each as warm up for 3-5 sets of flat/incline dumbbells followed by same amount of sets dumbbell flies every chest day. Sometimes I throw in pec deck machine and cable cross some sets to for extra burn.

You know I have been doing dumbells exclusively for chest for 25 years. I throw in some BB benchpress every once in a while but I have always known DBs are great for building a chest and BB press is best for strength.

John

Me too bro, feels like my chest is growing again, especially with those BURN SETS!

I will say, the pec deck is awesome for a nice stretch on chest day!

Yeah you are exactly right man! BB for strength!

Im pretty new but from what I've been taught I do BB for strenth first as a core compound and then I switch over to dumbbells for growth

Are you tucking your elbows in so you can lower them all the way down?

yeah you can do like a 7,7,6,4,3 rep range on the barbell for strength.. then go into working sets with dumbbell bench for high volume!