3 Responses to “What’s The Difference Between The Incline Dumbbell Press And The Incline Barbell Press?”

1. I.C. says:

   January 31, 2010 at 4:49 pm

   Whenever dumbbells are used you recruit extra stabilizer muscles to control each dumbbell. Typically you can lift more combined weight with a barbell and less with dumbbells that's because it takes a lot of "control" to keep them balanced thru the exercise.
   Dumbbells are great because the weaker arm can't ride off of the stronger one, each one pulls all the weight by itself.
   Inclined barbell press focuses an fewer muscles--and these are the ones that create a wider chest but even dumbbells do just to a lesser degree because of the control issue.
2. JIMMY says:

   January 31, 2010 at 9:49 pm

   Ozzy, there are little balancing muscles in the body. When you use a machine these minor stabilizing muscles don't come into play that much. A barbell uses a bunch of these stabilizing muscles, cause you got to keep the bar centered. ...Not just going up and down. In theory, a dumbell uses even more of these stabilizing muscles.
3. David B says:

   February 1, 2010 at 1:19 am

   Barbell good for upper chest and dumbbells good for middle chest

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