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I've been training on and off for 3 years, and training seriously for the past year and a half. I've noticed a lot of muscular imbalances in areas like my pecs mostly, my left pec has much more hypertrophy, my right pec looks puny compared to it, my right trap and shoulder are bigger than my left trap/shoulder. The bulk of my upper body training is compound movements. How would you recommend going about fixing these? Would you do unilateral training? Would you just expect that eventually the bigger muscle would reach a plateau and the other would catch up to it? I'm sorry if this is a re-post.
Id submit a few pictures so people can see whats going on. You'd be surprised at what your mind might exaggerate. Not to say its not happening.
you could do dumbbell movements rather than barbell.
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Ignore my size i'm in a bulk phase. When I said compound movements, I meant exercises such as barbell and dumbell bench presses, barbell and dumbell shoulder presses, and the only time my traps get training is when I'm deadlifting which is rare for me now-a-days.
your fine, keep doing what you're doing.
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Thanks bro
It's fairly apparent you favor your left side. Focus more on form during your lifts; you're allowing your right shoulder to lag during.
Last edited by clsmilek; 03-06-2012 at 09:50 AM.
That is what I thought the problem would be, but I've had people I lift with check my form and they've all set its symmetrical. I've even taken videos from multiple angles of it and seen for myself, and the form isn't bad. If I get another video though, I'll post it here.
Maybe try do some sets of dumbell bench press and see if one side fails first? If so, you could stick with this for a while until the weaker side catches up
same problem i've a lot of muscular imbalances in areas like my pecs
Looks like posture issues to me.
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You don't look imbalanced, I agree with the guy above me, I think it's in your posture. Has anyone ever checked you out for scoliosis?
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