Not exact matches
This applies regardless of what type of
chest exercise you are doing — pushups, dumbbell
flys, bench presses, neck presses or dips.
However, the all - time favorite delt
exercise, the overhead press, primarily hits the anterior part of your delts, which makes it less than adequate for building huge delts, not to mention that the anterior head already gets more than enough stimulation from all pressing and
fly movements you've been working your
chest with.
Even Arnold Schwarzenegger, who is the legendary owner of one of the biggest
chests ever, stated that the flat - bench dumbbell
fly is the single most effective
exercise he ever did for his
chest.
The
chest fly is an isolation
exercise, so it should be performed after compound movements.
For example, if you are doing a
chest workout which is bench press, inclines, and
flys then use the bench press as the warmup
exercise.
Don't listen to all these guys who give you twenty different
exercises for the
chest — incline presses, decline presses, the flat bench press, incline, decline and flat dumbbell
flys, cable crossovers, front raises, pullovers... from what I've found, overtraining the
chest really doesn't get anyone anywhere.
There are a ton of different flye
exercises you can choose from, such as dumbbell flyes, cable flyes and machine flyes, but as I discussed in my previous post (The Best
Chest Fly Exercise), cable flyes are definitely the superior choice.
Some of the best
exercises you can perform on this gym include
chest exercises like press and
fly.
2 Days a week I did: (this is «advanced», you can do less if you don't consider yourself advanced) Aerobic
exercise 6 mins @ 85 %
Chest Press 14 x 2 Lunge 14 ea leg Lat pull down 14 x 2 Aerobic
exercise 6 mins @ 85 Push up 20 x 2 Ball squat 16 Single arm row 14 Power lunge 14 Aerobic
exercise 7 mins @ 85 % Dips 25, rest then 20 Leg curl 16 Reverse
fly 14 Aerobic
exercise 6 mins @ 85
Cable machine incline
chest fly is a good
exercise that focuses on the upper
chest.
While most
chest exercises work the middle or upper part of your
chest, dumbbell
flys work the outer ares of your
chest.
In addition, there are some
exercise you can't do with barbells, such as lateral raises,
chest flys, triceps kickbacks etc..
I have found the squeezing
exercises like
flys more effective at adding
chest mass than the pushing
exercises like bench press.
The last
chest exercise a person can look at for their routine would be «cable
flys».
Shrugs have the same problem as other assistance
exercises; you can't progress successfully over time (like the difference in progression between
chest flies and the bench press).
The main problem with almost every
chest training routine is that it only focuses on the middle portion of the
chest with basic
exercises like the barbell bench press and dumbbell
fly.
However, the anterior deltoids get a significant amount of indirect work from
chest exercises (e.g. bench press, push up, dip,
fly), especially upper
chest exercises (i.e. any incline press or
fly).
Summary The Battle Ring
Chest Fly is a powerful chest and shoulder exercise that will also give you outstanding core strength if performed regul
Chest Fly is a powerful
chest and shoulder exercise that will also give you outstanding core strength if performed regul
chest and shoulder
exercise that will also give you outstanding core strength if performed regularly.
I might be wrong but what I did in my case is workout my
chest lightly (let say only pushups or
flys, whatever you prefer, I guess) and concentrate on back and shoulder
exercises.
The only
exercises that really need to be spotted are
chest press and
fly variations and squats,» says Hyson.
As a side note, the dumbbell
fly is a great
exercise to incorporate into your barbell
chest workouts.
When performing the
exercise I like to
fly it to a position that is directly in front of my face and squeeze my
chest.