Straight Arm Floor Flys

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Straight arm floor flys.

Lower the dumbbells to the sides of your ankle and repeat. Learn how to safely do this exercise on a flat bench an incline bench or with no bench. So if your arm is straighter it s longer and therefore you re getting more work out of the same exercise. 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.

They had a small degree of bend but i concentrated to get them as flat as possible. 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. Use your free hand to support yourself either on the bench or the floor.

This can be the floor or a workout bench. Is there more of a risk of shoulder injury with your arms straight. I didnt go silly heavy went up to 24kgs 53lbs a hand for 6. 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.

2 single arm dumbbell floor press how to. I kept mine as straight as possible serious upper chest pulling when going horizontal. 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. Dumbbell chest flies may help strengthen arm and shoulder muscles and open up the chest muscles.

Straight arm or bent. Keep your back leg straight. Lie on your back with your knees bent and feet placed flat on the ground. To start the one arm flye you should lie on a flat surface.

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. 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.