I am going to be doing HST later this week so I was testing my strength on the various exercises and I noticed how much weaker I am on dumbbell press than I am on benchpress. (I should note that I haven't done dumbbell press in almost 2 years, consistently doing bench before of its superior 'rank' in the hierarchy).
I wanted to do dumbbell press because when I do HST and bench I get anterior deltoid problems very quickly, I suspect due to the frequency and the extremely wide grip I use. Dumbbell press seems safer for the shoulder, plus I wanted to do something new.
So is a large strength discrepancy normal between the two exercises? and if I do db presses for 2 months on a HST programme, if and when I return to my split will I lose strength on the bench?
Cheers, all!
