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.
Floor flys dumbbell.
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.
For hypertrophy we need to explore an eccentrically overloaded exercise and the eccentric floor fly is a great option for this which is also safe for the shoulders.
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.
The dumbbell chest fly is an upper body exercise that can help to strengthen the chest and shoulders.
The power flye is basically a cross between a flye and a dumbbell bench press.
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.
For a metabolic challenge you can perform a ladder style dumbbell bench press to find the burn and stay in it.
How to do it.
The traditional way to perform a dumbbell chest fly is to do the move while lying on your back.
As a matter of fact i m no.
The exercise is the floor pause 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.
With this floor version the triceps should touch the floor but not the dumbbells.
Avoid decline ong flys ong and every other decline chest exercise as it is unnecessary and waste of your workout energy.
The elbows stay at roughly a 90 degree angle.
This is normally done on a flat or inclined bench.
I learned it from bodybuilding legend bill pearl.
You can do ong dumbbell ong machine cable chest ong flys ong and even ong floor flys ong.
This makes the chest do more work without compromising shoulder health.
Doing so does reduce the range of motion but that is unavoidable and arguably safer without an exercise bench.