Pec deck flyes do present potential injury problems. The exercise can put a lot of pressure on the shoulders (rotator cuff) and many blame their shoulder problems on the exercise. You are best avoiding it if you have had past problems in this area.
Dumbbell Flyes
1. Lay down on a flat or incline bench. Hold a dumbbell in each hand. Start with your arms lifted straight above your chest. Your palms should be facing each other and weights should be parallel.
Chest Flyes with Leg Raise
Lie on ball holding dumbbells straight up, palms facing in (neutral grip). Extend one leg and, keeping it extended, lower arms down to chest level (parallel to floor).
Chest Flyes: lie on a flat bench, holding a pair of dumbbells over your chest with your palms facing each other. With your elbows slightly bent, lower your arms out towards your side.
Cable Flyes
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Flyes, Leg Extensions, and Side Raises
Statics are easier to do on certain exercises and more difficult on others.
Flyes (Incline):
Set an incline bench at a 5-10 degree angle. With a pair of dumbbells in your hands, lie back. Extend the dumbbells over your head, palms facing together.
Dumbell Flyes
This "modern" version strengthens the muscles of the chest with less risk of shoulder joint injury. The difference is in the position of the palms. The traditional way is to have the palms facing each other.
Dumbbell Flyes
This exercise works the entire chest area, but you can target specific areas of your chest depending on the angle of the bench.
flexibility flyes an exercise targetting the pectoral muscles usually performed by lying face-up on a bench with arms almost straight (don't lock out your elbows, ...
When I do dumbbell flyes I purposely use light to moderate weights, higher reps, and really emphasize the stretch at the bottom. Rather then trying to lift heavy, I simply focus my attention on doing dynamic stretching with weights.
Chest: Gymnastics Flyes
"Gymnasts have tremendous pectoral development," says Ferruggia, who suggests modifying the old-school dumbbell fl y with gymnastics rings for a better chest workout.
Your web site features cable cross overs or cable standing flyes. But does not show a variation using the pulleys at floor level. This is a upper chest exercise, where the regular cross overs are more for lower chest depending on body position.
The rings add an element instability to staple exercises such as ring push-ups, flyes, pull-ups and dips but also offer a range of exercises such as the notoriously difficult iron cross or muscle-up.
Flyes are used to work the muscles of the upper body, primarily the sternal head of the pectoralis major.
The fourth and final way to do a same muscle group superset is to superset two isolation exercises, such as cable crossovers and dumbbell flyes.
Dips
Barbell Bench Press
Dumbbell Bench Press
Incline Dumbbell Press
Pec Dec Flyes. Read more on chest workout routine and exercises for chest muscles.
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Flat presses involve the widest distribution of stimulus to the Pectorals where as incline presses tend to focus stimulus on the clavicular head (upper chest). Other good choices for chest exercises are pushups, flyes, ...
An effective workout will include legs (squats, lunges, leg extensions, leg curls and leg press), shoulders (military press, dumbbell raises and side laterals), chest (bench press, flyes and dips), back (pull-ups, rows, deadlifts and lat pull-downs), ...
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