Keep the dumbbells parallel with each other during the movement.
Chest flyes on 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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How to do it.
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.
I learned it from bodybuilding legend bill pearl.
With this floor version the triceps should touch the floor but not the dumbbells.
If you want to build a bigger chest you definitely don t want to shoo away this fly or these nine variations.
The floor allows you to open your arms only so far whereas the bench will let you go down just another inch or two for a greater challenge.
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It turns out that the floor fly might be a.
Before we start flying let s stay on the ground and review what it means to fly.
As i mentioned flyes are a single joint exercise while most of the major chest exercises bench press incline press and others are multijoint.
Pause briefly at the bottom of each rep.
Doing so does reduce the range of motion but that is unavoidable and arguably safer without an exercise bench.
This makes the chest do more work without compromising shoulder health.
Dumbbell chest fly.
Chest fly can be done lying on the floor or on a weight bench for just a little more range of motion.
Learn how to safely do this exercise on a flat bench an incline bench or with no bench.
Maintain your slightly flexed elbows neutral wrist position and contact of your head shoulder butt and feet with the bench and floor riser.
The exercise is the floor pause dumbbell fly.
Some benefits of doing the movement on the ground is that you won t have to worry about any sort of shoulder tear because what s going to happen is even if you lose control the dumbbells are going to stop when they hit the floor.
Dumbbell chest flies may help strengthen arm and shoulder muscles and open up the chest muscles.
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