As in regular floor flys the floor acts as your safety net and you can drop the weights freely.
Dumbbell floor flys.
Dumbbell flys instructions pick up the dumbbells off the floor using a neutral grip palms facing in.
Doing so does reduce the range of motion but that is unavoidable and arguably safer without an exercise bench.
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.
Dumbbell chest fly.
Standing dumbbell flys incline dumbbell flys dumbbell flys on flat bench or floor bent over reverse dumbbell flys.
The exercise is the floor pause dumbbell fly.
How to do it.
Position your middle to upper back on the stability ball and have your knees bent with your feet flat on the floor.
I learned it from bodybuilding legend bill pearl.
But this stability ball version is my favorite.
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.
Dumbbell chest flies may help strengthen arm and shoulder muscles and open up the chest muscles.
The dumbbell chest fly can be done in various ways without a bench.
2 dumbbell eccentric floor fly.
This is the alternative technique for those who want to go really heavy when doing flys.
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.
Push your hips upwards to get your body in as much of a flat position as possible.
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.
Position the ends of the dumbbells in your hip crease and sit down on the bench.
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.