What's facepalm?

Another reason to use dumbells is that it gives the shoulders a break. Too much flat bar pressing (pressing of any kind) gets to be hell on the shoulders.

Dumbells allow a neutral grip (natural) instead of forcing you into internal rotation via the pronated grip. So it can be very helpful using dumbells just to give the shoulders a break, some variety, however you want to look at it.

I personally never do two flat bar presses in the same workout, similar to what pity said, just in deference to my shoulder health.

That does not mean it is "wrong" to do two flat bar presses in a workout. I just have this personal guideline to keep myself in line. But certainly I think everyone should consider swithching at least half of their flat bar presses over to a corresponding dumbell press.

I think Eric Cressey was soley responsible for getting me into that habit and it stuck a whole lot more that the whole "stability" thing. For me, a cost-to-benefit thing is much more useful than a vague sort of "trains stability" thing. Not that the stability part isn't very true it's just hard to ingrain a habit based on that when you can pile more weight on the barbell. Even for me it's frustrating to train based on effects that I hardly notice.

But shoulder health I CAN notice. Shoulders get tweaked so darn often.

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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.