Straight Arm Floor Flys

Hold a dumbbell in left hand and extend your arm upward over your chest palm.

Straight arm floor flys.

They had a small degree of bend but i concentrated to get them as flat as possible. Is there more of a risk of shoulder injury with your arms straight. Straight arm or bent. Heavy presses and dips have been the primary building blocks in constructing the most massive chests of all time including schwarzenegger reg park and ronnie coleman but the finishing touches in constructing these masterpieces were done with variations of the fly.

So if your arm is straighter it s longer and therefore you re getting more work out of the same exercise. This can be the floor or a workout bench. Use your free hand to support yourself either on the bench or the floor. Plant your feet on the floor if you are on the bench and bend them so you can place them flat on the floor if you are lying on the floor.

2 single arm dumbbell floor press how to. I kept mine as straight as possible serious upper chest pulling when going horizontal. Straight arm floor flyes if you re doing straight arm floor flyes it s an exercise that i sometimes do if all the benches are being used and or i simply want to do something different. The longer the lever in this case your arm the more load you re bearing.

Keep your back leg straight. Big brawny and powerful pecs spark admiration in the hearts of men and less than pure thoughts in the hearts of honky tonk angels. And one of the biceps joints the long head starts just above that shallow cavity. Keeping your torso still and the back of the hands facing the ceiling slowly raise the dumbbells directly out to the sides until they are parallel to the floor squeezing your shoulder blades together.

I didnt go silly heavy went up to 24kgs 53lbs a hand for 6. It s always good to throw in a new or different exercise once in awhile to keep things interesting and to challenge your body to something new. Lower the dumbbells to the sides of your ankle and repeat. Learn how to safely do this exercise on a flat bench an incline bench or with no bench.

Dumbbell chest flies may help strengthen arm and shoulder muscles and open up the chest muscles. Lie on your back with your knees bent and feet placed flat on the ground.