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.
Dumbbell floor flys.
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.
2 dumbbell eccentric floor 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.
How to do it.
Doing so does reduce the range of motion but that is unavoidable and arguably safer without an exercise bench.
The trick is that you overload the eccentric part of the movement while cheating on the way back.
Push your hips upwards to get your body in as much of a flat position as possible.
Standing dumbbell flys incline dumbbell flys dumbbell flys on flat bench or floor bent over reverse dumbbell flys.
The exercise is the floor pause dumbbell fly.
Dumbbell chest flies may help strengthen arm and shoulder muscles and open up the chest muscles.
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.
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.
Learn how to safely do this exercise on a flat bench an incline bench or with no bench.
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.
Dumbbell flys instructions pick up the dumbbells off the floor using a neutral grip palms facing in.
But this stability ball version is my favorite.
Position the ends of the dumbbells in your hip crease and sit down on the bench.
Dumbbell chest fly.