I don’t necessarily see what it achieves that a regular cable fly doesn’t?
I can say that any chest exercise which provides a high degree of loading at the point of peak contraction is a great idea for growing the chest, as many people rely totally on benching and flyes to develop their chests, both of which work the pecs at the point of stretch but not the full way through to the point of peak contraction.
[quote]morepain wrote:
i think it is pretty cool, the one thing you should realize is that given the exact same exercise post it up AND if you were dave tate or ct or chad everyone would be telling you how brilliant you are and how it is the most amazing thing they have ever seen. No offense to these guys they are great trainers but i am sure even they have a laugh and how people overreact to what is after all a pretty simple activity.
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Haha, I appreciate your kind words and I can see where you are coming from with the exaggerated praise. I’m defo not a great trainer like them though, just a kid!
Thanks.
[quote]Sepukku wrote:
Yeah I think this exercise is better for a higher rep range because of what you said, but it all depends on how strong your chest and core is. I don’t really think you’d need/be able to use so much weight that it would pull you off the bench or the bench and you off the ground lol. But it all depends on how strong you are and how heavy you are as well.[/quote]
I’m not strong enough to lift myself or the bench doing this exercise 
To be honest, if I were in a bodybuilding mode I would try it.
And to second what was just said, if this exercise had appeared in an Exercises You’ve Never Tried Before article, people would be all over it.
[quote]t-ha wrote:
I don’t necessarily see what it achieves that a regular cable fly doesn’t?
I can say that any chest exercise which provides a high degree of loading at the point of peak contraction is a great idea for growing the chest, as many people rely totally on benching and flyes to develop their chests, both of which work the pecs at the point of stretch but not the full way through to the point of peak contraction. [/quote]
Well, in normal flyes the end of the movement leaves your hands directly out in front of your chest whereas this allows you to bring your hand right across your chest and past your shoulder, so the ROM is increased greatly. Also, because your lying sideways you don’t have to use your deltoids to elevate your humerous, so the delts do less of the work.
Hope that helps!
[quote]Sepukku wrote:
Well, in normal flyes the end of the movement leaves your hands directly out in front of your chest whereas this allows you to bring your hand right across your chest and past your shoulder, so the ROM is increased greatly. Also, because your lying sideways you don’t have to use your deltoids to elevate your humerous, so the delts do less of the work.
Hope that helps! [/quote]
Gotcha. Yeah sounds good. I’ve been using the exercise I described here: http://www.T-Nation.com/readTopic.do?id=682952&pageNo=1#773767
as I only have a single cable-pull machine to play with, but it definitely definitely adds lots of muscle.