Unevenness

Unevenness

            Do you feel bad that one of your arms is stronger than the other?  Do you hate it when you are doing bench press and one side always seems heavier than the other?  Do you look in the mirror and see that you are more defined in one area than the other?  Do you feel like a loser because of this?  DON’T BE!  You are just experiencing unevenness and it happens to all of us.  No, you’re not a loser because one arm can curl 50 and the other can only curl 45.  All this means is that one of your arms is stronger than the other and it’s probably because when you first started lifting you would put more pressure on that arm.  Or maybe when you first started lifting you would curl till you couldn’t curl anymore with that arm, that’s ok but it has now caused you to become uneven in your lifting. 

            It is very easy for you to fix this simple problem by just doing the same lifts that you were doing before.  All you have to do is figure out which arm (or leg or chest or shoulder or whatever) is weaker than the other.  Then you have to find a weight that is comfortable for you to do with that weak arm, do your regular amount of reps that you usually would with the weak arm first, then whatever the amount of reps you did with the weak arm, do the same amount with the strong arm.  Even though you know that you could do so many more reps with that strong arm, only do what you did with the weak arm.  Do the same for any other muscle unevenness you may have.

            What this does is it lowers the strength of your strong arm just a little bit, but at the same time it strengthens you weak arm to the point that it becomes even with the other arm.  Do this for every exercise on that muscle group till you feel that your two arms (or whatever) are even in strength. 

            A good way to prevent something like this from happening is to make sure that no matter what you always do the same amount of reps for both extremities.  If you feel that you are uneven in your bench press it may have happened when you were trying to do your normal sets and when you are getting tired and weaker you push your body to the side that you feel is weaker, this is ok for a few times if you just really need to finish sets.  Although if you continue to do this then you are just using your body to help one side press the weight up and this will cause the side that was already weak to become even weaker because it doesn’t have to work nearly as hard because it’s so used to having you body push itself up. 

            Unevenness SUCKS, and I hope this post helped you in your constant battle with unevenness.  If you want help with your battle COMMENT! Remember, we’re all in this together, keep your stick on the ice.