Cables also keep tension on your chest throughout the entire exercise range of motion.
Floor flys with cables.
When doing a cable fly you pull from the sides but the height of the pulleys determines the specific direction or angle of your pull you can adjust the height of the pulleys to shift the area of emphasis on your pecs.
Two of the most common chest exercises are the bench press and dumbbell fly.
Your head shoulders butt and feet should make contact with the bench and floor riser throughout the exercise.
Chest fly on floor the first option is to get down on the floor and do the movement here.
The cable fly is one of the best exercises for your chest.
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.
Place two cable pulleys slightly above the shoulder height with handle attachments grip one handle in each hand and step forward so that the arms are outstretched to the sides.
Chest flys both have multiple benefits.
The functional trainer better known as the cable machine is a dual pulley machine that allows the athlete to perform various rows flys and presses.
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Rows and presses are easily replicated by conventional dumbbells and barbells.
In contrast the fly or cable fly is more difficult to do with dumbbells and.
Signal the spotter for assistance in moving to the starting position.
Cable flys on the cable machine.
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.
But if you don t have access to a cable station there s an easy hack that allows you to take the move anywhere.
Some benefits of doing the movement on the ground is that you won t have to worry about any sort of shoulder tear because what s going to happen is even if you lose control the dumbbells are going to stop when they hit the floor.
I learned it from bodybuilding legend bill pearl.
Grasp each dumbbell with a closed pronated grip palms facing forward thumbs wrapped around the handle pressing the dumbbells to a position shoulder width apart.
How to do it.
The exercise is the floor pause dumbbell fly.