Whats the purpose of doing pec flyes?

[SSAlexSS]

Whats the purpose of pec flies? What do they do?

What is wrong from benching (flkat incline decline) instead of doing flies?

Do flies make your chest wider, and benches makes pecs thicker???

reply please!
Thanks!

 

[The Shadow]

Flyes are a stretch position. They can add thickness and sweep to the outer part of the chest.

 

[SSAlexSS]

Flyes are a stretch position. They can add thickness and sweep to the outer part of the chest.

Great! Thanks!


Also where did you get your name?>???

Watch Beavis and Butthead???


I AM CORNHOLIO I need T.P. for my bumhole!!!



hahahaha..... B&B Always crack me up.

 

[The Shadow]

Great! Thanks!


Also where did you get your name?>???

Watch Beavis and Butthead???


I AM CORNHOLIO I need T.P. for my bumhole!!!



hahahaha..... B&B Always crack me up.

Actually yes.

EF lost my original user info for a while so I was watching MTV thinking of a temp login name...

 

[SSAlexSS]

Actually yes.

EF lost my original user info for a while so I was watching MTV thinking of a temp login name...

Great! What is your favorite beavis and butthead episode????

Watch Pumping Iron Episode!
It kicks ass!


Or tainted Meat episode.;... Youll never eat burgers again after seeing that episode/....

 

[MohawkMuscle]

flies target the myoacted (sp) reflex. When doing it properly it will engage more muscle fibers then usually, exspecially when you do them before presses.

 

[SSAlexSS]

flies target the myoacted (sp) reflex. When doing it properly it will engage more muscle fibers then usually, exspecially when you do them before presses.

What? Pec flies recruit more muscle fibers than bench presses? Or only if you do them in superset before bench press???

reply please!

thanks!

 

[SmooThy5464]

flys r an awesome stretch if done corectly as long as u seperate them from presses alot of peeps think they r doin flys but really doin db presses a nice set of full stretched flys r awesome i hit them once a week flat/incline...

 

[bignate73]

flyes take the pecs through thier intended muscle action; transverse adduction or horizontal adduction (depends on your schooling). to adduct the humerus (upper arm) pure and simple. the fact that one can go heavier on a press just illustrates that there are many synergist muscles involved (triceps, delts).

2 types of movements.

muscle specific: "isolation" movements
movement specific: multijoint movements (usually having an intended target muscle but many others are hit in the process)

gym science tends to get away from this by lumping exercises into categories or bodyparts. while the press is excellent for the chest, dont rule out the other muscle groups helping out. thats why people preexhaust by doing flyes, because the delts and tris tend to fatigue first.

hope that clears things up.

 

[Vortexx]

So, should we all do lets's say... 3 * 8 sets of flyes before we jump into benchpressing, giing up a big bench for a bigger chest?

I tried it a few times however the funnie thing is that:

- when i start with flyes, my bench goes down (to be expected, and the pump is awesome)

- when i start whis heavy benches, my pecs are really full and i can still do the flyes afterward with the same weight as if I would do flyes as first exercise....??????


Maybe it's a warmup thing or another personal thing.....

Also some time I experimented with pre-exhausting pecs with pec-deck as first exercise , really squeezing for full contraction and what I noticed was the LACK of the myostatic reflex. Cause doing benches after that sucked . not in a good way as pre-exhausion would have done, but in a bad way in the sense that wide grip benchpressing itselve is kind of a stretching exercise and doing the peak contraction squeezes at the pek-deck temporarily altered neural pathways so that i had trouble using the myostatic reflex in the benchpress