Dumbbell Floor Flys
Dumbbell chest fly.
Dumbbell floor flys. Doing so does reduce the range of motion but that is unavoidable and arguably safer without an exercise bench. 2 dumbbell eccentric floor fly. The trick is that you overload the eccentric part of the movement while cheating on the way back. How to do it.
Learn how to safely do this exercise on a flat bench an incline bench or with no bench. 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 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 an incline will instinctively bring your arms down. The exercise is the floor pause dumbbell fly.
I learned it from bodybuilding legend bill pearl. Position your middle to upper back on the stability ball and have your knees bent with your feet flat on the floor. 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. Standing dumbbell flys incline dumbbell flys dumbbell flys on flat bench or floor bent over reverse dumbbell flys.
As in regular floor flys the floor acts as your safety net and you can drop the weights freely. 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 the ends of the dumbbells in your hip crease and sit down on the bench. But this stability ball version is my favorite.
The dumbbell chest fly can be done in various ways without a bench. Push your hips upwards to get your body in as much of a flat position as possible. 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. This is the alternative technique for those who want to go really heavy when doing flys.