Anyone do flies for chest?

[overhead]

The only time I do flies is for stretching, they do not seem to be much of a mass builder

 

[Serea]

I don't see many people put down butterflies for their chest exercise. Why is this?

For chest I do:
flat bench press
incline bench press
flies

I don't do dips since I don't have anything good to do them on in my garage. Gonna try to do them on my sawhorses though soon.

 

[Tiervexx]

i don't feel that flies do jack shit

 

[PancakeFiend]

I like them because they are good finisher moves. But I'd skip them and devote all my energy to compound moves for the chest if i'm going for purely mass...

 

[houseofpain]

Ex-Flier...

I used to do flies all the time to try and get that center cut between my pecs, but I found that heavier dumbell weights seemed to tire my arms long before my chest really did.

Since then I've found that doing concentrated heavy close grip bench presses gives me much better definition between my pecs while also building mass.

 

[jerkbox]

I've started doing these again in one of my chest workouts a week.....my chest is a lagging bodypart right now.


hadn't done them in a long time.



one thing I like to do is turn the outside of my fists in at the end of the movement (so that my palms are facing me)....gives a good squeeze in the middle of your chest.

 

[The Red Dragon]

Nah I figure I can devote energy to presses

 

[MeatHead57]

i do presses then dips then flies so that my chest is allready worn out!!

 

[louden_swain]

I used to, but then I dumped them for heavy basic movements.

 

[Debaser]

Flyes are incomparable to benches or dips in terms of efficacy, and are also an unnatural, dangerous movement for the shoulders.

 

[pwr_machine]

I do incline flyes near the end of my chest workouts. Once I'm exhausted from the core exercises, flyes are a good finisher.

 

[SofaGeorge]

I do cable flies sometimes... but I don't get jack out of dumbell flies.

I still, however, hit dumbell flies occasionally.

 

[JollyRogers]

I do them once every blue moon

 

[Prime Rib]

I get a nice burn from them actually, but I do a pretty high amount of reps too (4x12). Not really sure if i'm getting much gain out of them though...

Josh

 

[TheOak84]

1 day i do

flat press
incline press
flyes - which i just switched for incline DB 2 weeks ago

on thursday i do

flat press
speed bench
dips

i like this program alot. i also like the flyes, im sore the next day and i get a nice pump

 

[ffknight84]

i would od dips over flies in a heartbeat, but my gym's dip machine doesnt have the proper width grip i need

 

[Tiervexx]

Nah I figure I can devote energy to presses

ya, i think you are better off doing an extra set of bench presses than flies.

 

[c3bodybuilding]

I wouldn't recommend them for a kid who is 6' 190 and looking to build mass, but for an advanced bodybuilder, they aren't a bad movement.

 

[killa in manila]

flies are good for your chest more than just one way.
they work the midle of your chest and they also stretch your chest making more room for mass.
i do flat bench,incline bench superset w/incline flies and then
finish off with decline,but i do chest once every week and a half
i've noticed some nice gains

 

[dr~pepper]

I use a fly machine which simulates a hugging motion. As far as I know, the chest muscles can only do two things: press and hug. So I do at least one exercise to cover each of these actions. Seems to work pretty well...