Cable flyes

COURTESY OF GLOBAL FITNESS

Major muscle used

• Pectorals - Inner and outer chest
• Deltoids - Front

Performing cable flyes

• Place a flat or incline bench between two low pulleys and attach a single handle to each pulley cable.
• Grasp both handles with palms facing up.
• Lay flat on the bench with your elbows bent at about chest height.
• Keeping your elbows bent, raise your hands in a semicircular motion above the middle of your chest until they touch.
• Hold for a brief second while flexing (squeezing) your chest.
• Keeping your elbows bent at same 45 degree angle, slowly lower your hands to the starting position.

Be careful

• Don't let your elbows become straight or bent more than a 45 degree angle any time during the exercise.
• Don't lower your hands farther than chest height.
• Don't just let your hands drop when lowering the weights. Resist the force of the weights by lowering your hands in a slow, controlled manner.

Alternative exercises to cable flyes

• Decline flyes
• Incline flyes
• Flyes

Courtesy of Global-Fitness.com, your Online Personal Trainer

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