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Non alpha arm being alpha? /fit/izen 01/09/16 (Sat) 12:00:44 No.82641

>Right arm is the dominant

>Noticed struggling with right arm in the bench press

>Left arm was always the weakest

>Left arm always press 1~2kg more weight than the right one

What kind of sorcery is that brehs? Does it correct itself through time?

inb4 stop fapping too much

inb4 nofap isn't a meme

inb4 my left arm is making it

/fit/izen 01/09/16 (Sat) 12:21:58 No.82642

Google about fixing imbalances. Maybe it's got something to do with a shoulder injury, that's been the case for be on a couple of occasions.

/fit/izen 01/09/16 (Sat) 12:26:24 No.82643

>>82642

No injuries here, but I will search about imbalances, thanks latvia.

/fit/izen 01/09/16 (Sat) 16:22:08 No.82654

Dumbbell press to fix imbalances.

/fit/izen 01/12/16 (Tue) 01:47:12 No.82833

I'm not sure if this is true or not but I've heard that your dominant hand and arm is better at preforming intricate and smaller controlled movements while the other is better at large scale sweeping movements like punching.

/fit/izen 01/12/16 (Tue) 20:30:51 No.82889

I have the same problem brazil

Left side is noticeably more defined than the right despite me doing dumbell bench and overhand deads. Keep thinking i should sort it out but probably never will

/fit/izen 01/13/16 (Wed) 03:41:57 No.82921

>>82889

Yeah, I know your struggle, some videos out there say about concentrating in your weaker arm and delay the other, otherwise isolating it with dumbbells can help, it's working for me by now.

/fit/izen 01/13/16 (Wed) 03:45:17 No.82922

Same problem here, right arm is my main arm but god damn does my left arm bicep get fucking BIG compared to my right.

Both equally as strong but one only seems to get the gains…

/fit/izen 02/04/16 (Thu) 12:19:14 No.85186

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>>82833

That makes sense. And imbalances can go either way. My dominant right arm is stronger when curling, but my left arm is better at carrying stuff.

>>82921

I also use dumbbells as much as I can. First the weak arm, then the same amount of reps with the strong arm.

Concentrating on your weak arm could backfire if you're overtraining.

/fit/izen 02/04/16 (Thu) 15:43:52 No.85197

>>82654

Dumbbell presses can aggravate his imbalance, since he would press faster with the right arm. On the other hand, barbell presses would be a much better option since you distribute the force on both arms.

/fit/izen 02/04/16 (Thu) 23:15:11 No.85249

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>>85197

Dumbbells forces the weak arm to lift the weight by itself, it doesn't matter if the strong arm does it faster, by using the barbell part of the weight the weak arm should lift will be lifted by the strong arm so that's pretty counterproductive,

/fit/izen 02/05/16 (Fri) 00:44:11 No.85264

>>85249

You can cheat on the weaker arm with dumbbells and that's probably what made it lag in the first place, a barbell fixes this.

/fit/izen 02/05/16 (Fri) 16:40:22 No.85304

>>85264

You can cheat anywhere at anything, you can cheat with the barbell too, what's your point? a barbell wont fix that.

/fit/izen 02/06/16 (Sat) 03:32:33 No.85354

>>85304

You can't cheat with one arm only, you can either cheat with both or none. If you lift with an arm on a different way, you'll lose balance, barbells force you to distribute force between both arms.

/fit/izen 02/06/16 (Sat) 20:58:38 No.85387

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>>85354

>You can't cheat with one arm only, you can either cheat with both or none

Bullshit, haven't you seen those guys that bench press with the bar in diagonal since one arm is weaker and can't go full rom, but they still do it because the other arm helps lift the weight why? because it's a bar so it's connected therefore the weak arm doesn't lift as much and stays weak while the strong arm lifts more and gets stronger, worsening the problem.