Try
doing dumbbell flies, chest presses, push - ups, arm raises, and chest pulls.
For example you could do dumbbell press, then without any rest,
do the dumbbell flys.
For instance, for a bulk chest work out, you can use the same weight for a chest press and then proceed to immediately
do a dumbbell fly.
Not exact matches
Incline
dumbbell bench press — 3 x 10,8,6 (after the warm up, pyramid your way up to 5 reps to failure) Barbell bench press — 3 x 10,8,6 Pec - deck
fly or
dumbbell fly — 3 x 15 (pick a weight that you can easily
do 12 - 15 reps with)
You've probably tried to push your upper pecs to grow with the help of incline barbell /
dumbbell presses, incline cable
flies and similar machine exercises, but since you're reading this article, we can assume that you're
doing some wrong.
What
do you think will help you build more strength and mass and where can you use bigger amount of weight — leg extensions or squats, bench presses or
dumbbell flies, a biceps curl or a chin up where you lift your own body weight?
Although it doesn't look as a winner at first glance, the
dumbbell fly is a pretty powerful exercise with multiple benefits.
This applies regardless of what type of chest exercise you are
doing — pushups,
dumbbell flys, bench presses, neck presses or dips.
A more detailed research of all existing training footage from Arnold's golden days (together with the material that didn't make the cut during the production of Pumping Iron) makes it obvious that that that the
dumbbell fly, when performed properly, can be an extremely effective and even transforming exercise, especially when
done on the flat bench.
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.
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.
When you say
dumbbell flys for chest day on a bench,
do you mean incline db
flys or flat db
flys?
I use a bench to
do flys and I would need a stack 3 feet high to rest my
dumbbells.
This is
done just like the regular
dumbbell flys keeping the bench declined at 45 degrees but lower the weight on to your lower chest.
This is
done just like the regular
dumbbell flys keeping the bench inclined 45 degrees but lower the weight on to your upper chest.
So you could
do bench press and then
dumbbell chest
fly.
Set up a bench as you
did for the incline
fly and lie back against it with a
dumbbell in one hand at shoulder level.
I can not tell you how many times I got my hand wrapped around the wire of my old earphones and sent my phone
flying off the treadmill... Or got all tangled trying to
do dumbbell curls with my phone attached to my arm...
Push ups, pull ups,
dumbbell bench, or
dumbbell flys are just a few examples of exercises you can
do to warm up.