{"id":2321,"date":"2018-10-17T23:55:43","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T23:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawbarrel.com\/?p=2321"},"modified":"2022-05-20T19:22:31","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T19:22:31","slug":"the-cable-pec-flye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawbarrel.com\/the-cable-pec-flye\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cable Pec Flye"},"content":{"rendered":"<body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>Horizontal pressing exercises like bench presses and push-ups effectively strengthen the pecs when they\u2019re in their mid to lengthened range. However, they don\u2019t strengthen the muscles when the pecs are in their shortened range, like when the arms are straight out from the torso. In that position, you\u2019re no longer working against a force that\u2019s pulling your arms apart.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is why you need to also perform cable pec flyes (one-arm or two-arm version) or machine pec flyes.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Cable Pec Flye, Unilateral Variation<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode\"><iframe title=\"Cable Flye \u2013 Single-Arm\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b3hQhuRfxxg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cable and machine flyes make you work against a resistance that\u2019s pulling your arms apart when they\u2019re extended away from the body. This is a range that\u2019s often neglected by traditional multi-joint pressing exercises.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Double-arm cable flyes do an even better job than the machine flyes because the cable allow you to cross-over your arms at the finish and get an even greater range of motion.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>via T Nation Articles <a href=\"https:\/\/ift.tt\/2Oc2qwz\" class=\"autohyperlink\">ift.tt\/2Oc2qwz<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Horizontal pressing exercises like bench presses and push-ups effectively strengthen the pecs when they\u2019re in their mid to lengthened range. However, they don\u2019t strengthen the muscles when the pecs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-raw-barrel","category-workouts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rawbarrel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/The_Missing_Exercise_for_Pumped_Pecs.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawbarrel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawbarrel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawbarrel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawbarrel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawbarrel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2321"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawbarrel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2433,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawbarrel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321\/revisions\/2433"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawbarrel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawbarrel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawbarrel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawbarrel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}