The traditional way to perform a dumbbell chest fly is to do the move while lying on your back.
Floor flys dumbbell.
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.
With this floor version the triceps should touch the floor but not the dumbbells.
Doing so does reduce the range of motion but that is unavoidable and arguably safer without an exercise bench.
How to do it.
I learned it from bodybuilding legend bill pearl.
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.
For hypertrophy we need to explore an eccentrically overloaded exercise and the eccentric floor fly is a great option for this which is also safe for the shoulders.
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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.
This is normally done on a flat or inclined bench.
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.
For a metabolic challenge you can perform a ladder style dumbbell bench press to find the burn and stay in it.
You can do them flat incline or even on a stability ball.
The dumbbell chest fly is an upper body exercise that can help to strengthen the chest and shoulders.
Dumbbell chest fly.
The elbows stay at roughly a 90 degree angle.
There are 6 reasons why you should never do a dumbbell chest fly ever again and i m going to show them all to you in this video.
You can do ong dumbbell ong machine cable chest ong flys ong and even ong floor flys ong.
Avoid decline ong flys ong and every other decline chest exercise as it is unnecessary and waste of your workout energy.
The power flye is basically a cross between a flye and a dumbbell bench press.