seated db press or alternate seated db press?

[fqqs]

seated db press or alternate seated db press? which is better? any pros and cons?

 

[bjg]

i would do seated db press with both arms together .....pros? you do them better because you are more stable, more stable = less chances of injury, you can do them heavier when done together and the form will be also better.
I have never seen anybody doing them alternate, i have seen people doing them with one arm but not two arms alternate.
i have done standing db press alternate with very low weight when i was a beginner while bending side to side a bit working out my waist and obliques.

 

[VolcomX311]

If you like both, you should do both. However, a lot of people who do the alternate aren???t really doing anything if they???re holding the weight at a lockout. More often then not, when I see people doing alternate db chest or db shoulder presses, they have the non-pressing arm locked out. At that point it???s your triceps maintaining a joint lock and not your muscles (chest or shoulders [w/tri???s], depending on what you???re doing) holding the weight in a static contraction against the weight. If you hold the weight with a slight bend at the elbow, then you???re getting a good static contraction in there, mixed with the isotonic movements.

Pro???s of alt presses, you mix up the muscle stimulation, you get your concentric, eccentric and static contractions. Con???s, you tend not to achieve as many reps, because a true static contraction (not locked out) will wear down the muscles intra-set stamina.

It boils down to new stimuli. Either you???re creating greater stress by going deeper with the reps, heavier with weights, or you???re creating greater stress by adding the static contraction with alts, everything has it???s place in it???s own season. Personally, I prefer regular lifting. I don???t care for getting too, too exotic. One isn???t superior to the other in an absolute manner, because no matter what you???re doing, your body will adjust, and the new thing you try will become the more effective thing, until your body adjusts, then you go back to the old thing and that becomes more effective again.

 

[PushAndPull]

Seated alternate dumbbell press:
Pro: Some women might ask your advice on performing them.
Con: The reduced stability makes it a light weight compound exercise.

Im my opinion the two exercises are not even comparable.
Standard DB press is an effective exercise for building size and strength.
Alternate DB press is a waste of time.

 

[bjg]

^^^ i like the pro for alternate dumbbell press!

 

[Grant_73]

Another option is to perform it George Turner style were you rest in the concentric position.

 

[MuscleGauge1]

Like said above if you like both do both. Pretty simple