This is the alternative technique for those who want to go really heavy when doing flys.
Dumbbell floor flys.
Position your middle to upper back on the stability ball and have your knees bent with your feet flat on the floor.
How to do it.
The dumbbell chest fly can be done in various ways without a bench.
Dumbbell chest fly.
I learned it from bodybuilding legend bill pearl.
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.
The trick is that you overload the eccentric part of the movement while cheating on the way back.
Dumbbell flys instructions pick up the dumbbells off the floor using a neutral grip palms facing in.
The exercise is the floor pause dumbbell fly.
As in regular floor flys the floor acts as your safety net and you can drop the weights freely.
Doing so does reduce the range of motion but that is unavoidable and arguably safer without an exercise 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.
Dumbbell chest flies may help strengthen arm and shoulder muscles and open up the chest muscles.
2 dumbbell eccentric floor fly.
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 an incline will instinctively bring your arms down.
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.
How to do standing dumbbell flys side lateral raises holding a pair of dumbbells stand upright with the dumbbells kept at arm s length by your side.
Learn how to safely do this exercise on a flat bench an incline bench or with no bench.
Position the ends of the dumbbells in your hip crease and sit down on the bench.
But this stability ball version is my favorite.