Dumbbell Floor Flys

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.

Dumbbell floor flys. 2 dumbbell eccentric floor fly. I learned it from bodybuilding legend bill pearl. Dumbbell chest flies may help strengthen arm and shoulder muscles and open up the chest muscles. 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.

As in regular floor flys the floor acts as your safety net and you can drop the weights freely. The exercise is the floor pause dumbbell fly. 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. How to do standing dumbbell flys side lateral raises holding a pair of dumbbells stand upright with the dumbbells kept at arm s length by your side.

Standing dumbbell flys incline dumbbell flys dumbbell flys on flat bench or floor bent over reverse dumbbell flys. Learn how to safely do this exercise on a flat bench an incline bench or with no bench. Dumbbell flys instructions pick up the dumbbells off the floor using a neutral grip palms facing in. How to do it.

Push your hips upwards to get your body in as much of a flat position as possible. Dumbbell chest fly. But this stability ball version is my favorite. Doing so does reduce the range of motion but that is unavoidable and arguably safer without an exercise bench.

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. Position your middle to upper back on the stability ball and have your knees bent with your feet flat on the floor. 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.