The traditional way to perform a dumbbell chest fly is to do the move while lying on your back.
Dumbbell floor fly.
The reason you re going to do an incline dumbbell fly rather than doing the flat version is because the majority of you when doing this movement because you re on.
2 dumbbell eccentric floor fly.
This makes the chest do more work without compromising shoulder health.
Dumbbell chest flyes are usually done on a bench or stability ball but there is absolutely nothing to say you can t do this popular chest exercise on the floor.
Doing so does reduce the range of motion but that is unavoidable and arguably safer without an exercise bench.
The power flye is basically a cross between a flye and a dumbbell bench press.
If you want to go back to the bench after doing the floor variation but you re still not 100 comfortable with lying flat then you re going to do an incline dumbbell fly.
As a matter of fact i m no.
The trick is that you overload the eccentric part of the movement while cheating on the way back.
The dumbbell chest fly is an upper body exercise that can help to strengthen the chest and shoulders.
Dumbbell chest fly.
Trying to hoist super heavy dumbbells into position is a royal pain in the you know what.
Push your hips upwards to get your body in as much of a flat position as possible.
As in regular floor flys the floor acts as your safety net and you can drop the weights freely.
Dumbbell floor presses work best in moderate to high rep ranges more for logistical reasons that anything.
Like other things in life the hardest part can be getting it up.
The elbows stay at roughly a 90 degree angle.
The exercise is the floor pause dumbbell fly.
Position your middle to upper back on the stability ball and have your knees bent with your feet flat on the floor.
Lie on the floor with two dumbbells above your shoulders arms 15 degrees shy of full extension with palms facing lower the weights in an arching motion.
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If you do not have access to a bench you can still perform the chest fly with dumbbells using just the floor it will still hit the muscles effectively and t.
I learned it from bodybuilding legend bill pearl.
But this stability ball version is my favorite.
This is the alternative technique for those who want to go really heavy when doing flys.
With this floor version the triceps should touch the floor but not the dumbbells.
This is normally done on a flat or inclined bench.