Eric Cressey recently had a newsletter post that reminded me of my bench problem. I think the mistake with unilateral strength discrepencies is to always assume that it is a difference in the strength between one extremity and another without assessing for other problems.

Just because, for instance, one arm goes up before another in your bench (not saying this is happening to you) does NOT automatically mean that one arm is weaker than another. Could be a scapular problem on the "weak" side and a resulting shoulder problem. Maybe the rotator cuff is overworked and shutting down on one side, say the subscapularis most likely. All sorts of things could be happening. That was a problem with my bench and all the dumbell work in the world didn't do diddly squat for that. I didn't even know what the problem with the shoulder was exactly I just deduced there were some problems from other things that were occuring.

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If you act sanctimonious I will just list out your logical fallacies until you get pissed off and spew blasphemous remarks.