Position your middle to upper back on the stability ball and have your knees bent with your feet flat on the floor.
Dumbbell floor flys.
As in regular floor flys the floor acts as your safety net and you can drop the weights freely.
Dumbbell chest fly.
Dumbbell chest flies may help strengthen arm and shoulder muscles and open up the chest muscles.
The exercise is the floor pause dumbbell fly.
Doing so does reduce the range of motion but that is unavoidable and arguably safer without an exercise bench.
Standing dumbbell flys incline dumbbell flys dumbbell flys on flat bench or floor bent over reverse dumbbell flys.
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.
This is the alternative technique for those who want to go really heavy when doing flys.
2 dumbbell eccentric floor fly.
Position the ends of the dumbbells in your hip crease and sit down on the bench.
Push your hips upwards to get your body in as much of a flat position as possible.
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.
But this stability ball version is my favorite.
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.
How to do it.
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.
Learn how to safely do this exercise on a flat bench an incline bench or with no bench.
The dumbbell chest fly can be done in various ways without a bench.
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.
I learned it from bodybuilding legend bill pearl.