Reverse Machine Flyes

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Reverse Machine Flyes — start position
Start
Reverse Machine Flyes — finish position
Finish
Muscles worked
PrimaryShoulders

How to do it

  1. 01

    Adjust the handles so that they are fully to the rear. Make an appropriate weight selection and adjust the seat height so the handles are at shoulder level. Grasp the handles with your hands facing inwards. This will be your starting position.

  2. 02

    In a semicircular motion, pull your hands out to your side and back, contracting your rear delts.

  3. 03

    Keep your arms slightly bent throughout the movement, with all of the motion occurring at the shoulder joint.

  4. 04

    Pause at the rear of the movement, and slowly return the weight to the starting position.

In the app

Reverse Machine Flyes appears when you own the machine and the day's window has room for it. Loads come from Rule 3 (Loads rise when earned, read from RPE, graded strong) and climb on the reps you actually did.

If a machine is taken the engine swaps a same-pattern movement and says why.

If you don't have the machine

Same movement pattern, same primary muscles — swap by what you have.

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