Eccentryx / Exercise Atlas / chest
Low-to-high cable fly
Cables at lowest pin; sweep handles upward and inward to eye level.
Muscles
- Primary
- upper chest
- Supporting
- front delts
Mechanics
- Pattern
- chest isolation
- Equipment
- cable
- Geometry
- Variable Range
- Energy model
- Glycolytic Pathway (10-90s)
- Target feel
- Upper chest fires hardest as hands meet above chest height.
- Progression
- Slow the top contraction to 3 seconds; increase cable load.
- Regression
- Start with one cable at a time to learn the path.
Watch for
- Starting with cables too high — removes upper chest emphasis
- Bending elbows and turning it into a press
- Losing scapular position and shrugging at the top
Substitutions
- Incline dumbbell fly
- Incline dumbbell press
- Cable fly mid