Dumbbells for BBB Bench and Press?

Has anyone ever replaced dumbbells for barbells while doing BBB overhead press or bench press? Basically take the BBB weight, divide by 2 and use two dumbbells.

What were any benefits? What are the drawbacks? Anyone?

Iā€™ve used dumbbells instead of barbells for press 5 x 10 before. I did it to try and keep my shoulders pain free, which it did.

Thatā€™s about all the in depth analysis youā€™re going to get from me Iā€™m afraid.

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Jim wrote some stuff about dumbbells and single leg in a post on his blog titled ā€œboring but bigā€ you might be interested in

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