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Suspension chest flyes
Chest · Suspension trainer
Sets, reps and RIR
Sets3 to 5
Reps6 to 15
RIR1 to 2
Load is fixed, so progress by adding reps first, then by slowing the lowering phase, then by adding weight.
RIR means reps in reserve: how many you could still have done when you racked it. RIR 2 is two short of failure.
Muscles worked
Primary: Chest.
Secondary: Front delts, Abs.
What it is called elsewhere
- Norsk Flyes (slynge)
- Svenska Flyes (slingtränare)
- Dansk Flyes (slynge)
- Deutsch Fliegende (Schlingentrainer)
- Español Aperturas en suspensión
- Italiano Croci in sospensione
- Português Crucifixo em suspensão
- Русский Разведение рук в петлях
- Français Écarté (sangles de suspension)
Related chest exercises
- Bench press (barbell)
- Incline bench press (barbell)
- Decline bench press (barbell)
- Close-grip bench press (barbell)
- Landmine press
- Flat dumbbell press
athlate logs this exercise, keeps the numbers, and tells you what you lifted last time.