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I know there are a few fitness guys on here, maybe one of you could help? I am getting a secondhand weights bench as I am building a home gym, it has a butterfly Press attachment, I have never used one of these before, which muscles does it work and what are the benefits, is this function normally performed by another exercise?
Thanks
This works your pecs and to some extent, your shoulders.
It's more of a toning/defining exercise than bulk building (for chest bulk you need to bench press) - it's gives the inner pecs that striated look.
Good to do after bench press/intense press ups.
Its for doing flys but it works the centre of your chest better than normal flys. I like these at the gym but all home gym equivalents i've seen have been rubbish.
What is a striaghted look?
So they should be slightly lower intensity longer sessions than chest press then?
YOu can do flyes and dumbell presses without it. These build bulk very well, especially if you start the movement as a DB press & end it as a fly, which seems to increase the actual exercise movement.
Then straight away, employ the fly attachment, and once you've exhausted the muscles with that, go straight to normal, close grip press ups, ending with some press ups pivoting from the knees. The closer in the hands, the more the inner pect' you'll work.
I think this method of doing an exercise to muscle failure is called running the rack or pyramiding, although it's been a while since I've been in a gym!