Is there more of a risk of shoulder injury with your arms straight.
Straight arm floor flys.
Straight arm or bent.
So if your arm is straighter it s longer and therefore you re getting more work out of the same exercise.
The longer the lever in this case your arm the more load you re bearing.
Big brawny and powerful pecs spark admiration in the hearts of men and less than pure thoughts in the hearts of honky tonk angels.
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.
Learn how to safely do this exercise on a flat bench an incline bench or with no bench.
Use your free hand to support yourself either on the bench or the floor.
Dumbbell chest flies may help strengthen arm and shoulder muscles and open up the chest muscles.
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.
And one of the biceps joints the long head starts just above that shallow cavity.
This can be the floor or a workout bench.
2 single arm dumbbell floor press how to.
Lie on your back with your knees bent and feet placed flat on the ground.
I kept mine as straight as possible serious upper chest pulling when going horizontal.
To start the one arm flye you should lie on a flat surface.
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.
Lower the dumbbells to the sides of your ankle and repeat.
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.
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.
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.
Hold a dumbbell in left hand and extend your arm upward over your chest palm.
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.
