Pec Deck & Chest Fly Machines

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Pec Deck Machines for Sale: Load the Chest Without Pressing A pec deck is a seated machine that trains the chest by opening and closing your arms in front of you, instead of pressing a weight away from you. The chest does almost all of that work on its own, without the shoulders and triceps taking the share they take in any press. That is the whole reason the machine exists, and it is why most commercial gyms have one sitting alongside the chest press machines rather than in place of them. What Separates a Pec Deck From a Chest Fly Machine Most of the time the two names describe the same machine and people use whichever one they learned first. Where there is a real difference, it is the angle you sit at and whether the arms reverse. A pec deck seats you upright with your arms out to the sides, and on almost all of them the arms turn around so the same machine trains the upper back. A chest fly machine built at an angle does one job instead. An incline pec fly puts the work into the upper chest, a decline moves it lower, and those are single movement machines that do not reverse. They get bought by a gym that already has an upright machine and wants a specific part of the chest. What does not sort them is the weight. A pec deck comes both ways, with a stack and a pin or with a plate post, so the name tells you nothing about which one you are looking at. If you want a plate loaded machine for a home gym, the Body-Solid GPM65 is the one here built for it. The rest of the plate loaded machines on this page are full commercial. Our guide to what a chest fly actually targets breaks down the movement itself. Most of These Machines Do Two Jobs Look down this page and most of these machines train two things. Sit back against the pad, bring the arms together in front of you, and it is a chest fly. Turn around with your chest against the pad, and the same arms open backwards into a reverse fly for the rear delts and upper back. That is not an extra bolted on to help sell the m