Dumbell Floor Fly

Form is everything try for 2s up and 2s down.

Dumbell floor fly.

Position your middle to upper back on the stability ball and have your knees bent with your feet flat on the floor. Dumbbell floor presses work best in moderate to high rep ranges more for logistical reasons that anything. For a metabolic challenge you can perform a ladder style dumbbell bench press to find the burn and stay in it. The dumbbell chest fly can be done in various ways without a bench.

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. Like other things in life the hardest part can be getting it up. Dumbbell chest fly. Trying to hoist super heavy dumbbells into position is a royal pain in the you know what.

Bend your knees and put your feet flat on the ground this puts your lower back in a safe position. The dumbbell chest fly is an upper body exercise that can help to strengthen the chest and shoulders. When lifting flex your abs for additional lower back support. Push your hips upwards to get your body in as much of a flat position as possible.

The traditional way to perform a dumbbell chest fly is to do the move while lying on your back. But this stability ball version is my favorite. 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. Doing so does reduce the range of motion but that is unavoidable and arguably safer without an exercise bench.

I learned it from bodybuilding legend bill pearl. 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. 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.

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.