I learned it from bodybuilding legend bill pearl.
Dumbbell floor fly.
2 dumbbell eccentric floor fly.
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.
As in regular floor flys the floor acts as your safety net and you can drop the weights freely.
Dumbbell chest fly.
As a matter of fact i m no.
The dumbbell chest fly is an upper body exercise that can help to strengthen the chest and shoulders.
The elbows stay at roughly a 90 degree angle.
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.
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This is normally done on a flat or inclined bench.
With this floor version the triceps should touch the floor but not the dumbbells.
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.
The traditional way to perform a dumbbell chest fly is to do the move while lying on your back.
The dumbbell chest fly can be done in various ways without a bench.
This is the alternative technique for those who want to go really heavy when doing flys.
The exercise is the floor pause dumbbell fly.
The power flye is basically a cross between a flye and a dumbbell bench press.
How to do it.
Doing so does reduce the range of motion but that is unavoidable and arguably safer without an exercise bench.
Position your middle to upper back on the stability ball and have your knees bent with your feet flat on the floor.
Trying to hoist super heavy dumbbells into position is a royal pain in the you know what.
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.
The trick is that you overload the eccentric part of the movement while cheating on the way back.
This makes the chest do more work without compromising shoulder health.
But this stability ball version is my favorite.
Dumbbell floor presses work best in moderate to high rep ranges more for logistical reasons that anything.
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.