Straight Arm Floor Flys

Straight arm or bent.

Straight arm floor flys. This can be the floor or a workout bench. Big brawny and powerful pecs spark admiration in the hearts of men and less than pure thoughts in the hearts of honky tonk angels. 2 single arm dumbbell floor press how to. To start the one arm flye you should lie on a flat surface.

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. Lower the dumbbells to the sides of your ankle and repeat. And one of the biceps joints the long head starts just above that shallow cavity. 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.

Lie on your back with your knees bent and feet placed flat on the ground. 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. The upper arm bone ends in a dome which slides around on a shallow cavity of the scapulae thus enabling us to move our arms in pretty much any way that we wish. The longer the lever in this case your arm the more load you re bearing.

Use your free hand to support yourself either on the bench or the floor. Hold a dumbbell in left hand and extend your arm upward over your chest palm. 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. So if your arm is straighter it s longer and therefore you re getting more work out of the same exercise.

Is there more of a risk of shoulder injury with your arms straight. Dumbbell chest flies may help strengthen arm and shoulder muscles and open up the chest muscles. Keep your back leg straight. I kept mine as straight as possible serious upper chest pulling when going horizontal.

However you have to be able to stabilize your elbow so there has to be some tone in your biceps and brachialis which generally means at least a little bend in. They had a small degree of bend but i concentrated to get them as flat as possible.