It is best to do dumbbell fly laying on the floor to safely limit your range of motion.
Dumbell floor fly.
Doing so does reduce the range of motion but that is unavoidable and arguably safer without an exercise bench.
The dumbbell chest fly is an upper body exercise that can help to strengthen the chest and shoulders.
If you want to go back to the bench after doing the floor variation but you re still not 100 comfortable with lying flat then you re going to do an incline dumbbell fly.
I learned it from bodybuilding legend bill pearl.
For hypertrophy we need to explore an eccentrically overloaded exercise and the eccentric floor fly is a great option for this which is also safe for the shoulders.
Like other things in life the hardest part can be getting it up.
Trying to hoist super heavy dumbbells into position is a royal pain in the you know what.
Lie on the floor with two dumbbells above your shoulders arms 15 degrees shy of full extension with palms facing lower the weights in an arching motion.
Bend your knees and put your feet flat on the ground this puts your lower back in a safe position.
Dumbbell floor presses work best in moderate to high rep ranges more for logistical reasons that anything.
But this stability ball version is my favorite.
How to do it.
The traditional way to perform a dumbbell chest fly is to do the move while lying on your back.
The dumbbell chest fly can be done in various ways without a bench.
Position your middle to upper back on the stability ball and have your knees bent with your feet flat on the floor.
Form is everything try for 2s up and 2s down.
When lifting flex your abs for additional lower back support.
If you do not have access to a bench you can still perform the chest fly with dumbbells using just the floor it will still hit the muscles effectively and t.
For a metabolic challenge you can perform a ladder style dumbbell bench press to find the burn and stay in it.
The reason you re going to do an incline dumbbell fly rather than doing the flat version is because the majority of you when doing this movement because you re on.
Push your hips upwards to get your body in as much of a flat position as possible.