This is normally done on a flat or inclined bench.
Dumbbell floor fly.
Dumbbell floor presses work best in moderate to high rep ranges more for logistical reasons that anything.
The traditional way to perform a dumbbell chest fly is to do the move while lying on your back.
As in regular floor flys the floor acts as your safety net and you can drop the weights freely.
2 dumbbell eccentric floor fly.
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.
But this stability ball version is my favorite.
The dumbbell chest fly can be done in various ways without a bench.
The elbows stay at roughly a 90 degree angle.
With this floor version the triceps should touch the floor but not the dumbbells.
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.
Dumbbell chest fly.
This is the alternative technique for those who want to go really heavy when doing flys.
How to do it.
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.
Push your hips upwards to get your body in as much of a flat position as possible.
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.
Doing so does reduce the range of motion but that is unavoidable and arguably safer without an exercise bench.
Trying to hoist super heavy dumbbells into position is a royal pain in the you know what.
This makes the chest do more work without compromising shoulder health.
The dumbbell chest fly is an upper body exercise that can help to strengthen the chest and shoulders.
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.
At the same time you.
The trick is that you overload the eccentric part of the movement while cheating on the way back.
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.
Position your middle to upper back on the stability ball and have your knees bent with your feet flat on the floor.
Like other things in life the hardest part can be getting it up.
The power flye is basically a cross between a flye and a dumbbell bench press.