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right arm bigger than left?

kenny_wtf Posts: 195 Joined: 2005/08/08	2005/08/18, 09:16 PM hi, my right arm (specially my right bicep) is bigger than my left. obviously cos im right handed and do most things with my right hand. to reduce this effect should i train my left arm more than my right? it feels right but is this ok to do?
scopium45 Posts: 16 Joined: 2004/12/17	2005/08/22, 05:02 PM thats what i did for some time.. i trained my left a bit more than my right until things evened out.. and unless you have pefect genetics.. you're muscles will not be perfectly symetrical
sstump1 Posts: 1,227 Joined: 2005/03/20	2005/08/22, 05:05 PM I have the same problem...what I've been doing is using same weight both arms, but starting with left arm and whenever failure occurs I do the same # with my right arm and don't go to failure. Mine is a big difference in size and strength. Oddly enough I write left handed, but throw and pretty much everything else right handed.
bb1fit Posts: 11,105 Joined: 2001/06/30	2005/08/24, 10:40 AM You can do any of the above, but in the end, you will find that if you use an even bar...i.e...curling bar, straight bar, your weaker arm will catch up, and maybe even overcompensate for the weakness in that side and get stronger. If you try to just use weights like dumbbells to work it individually, you will find it simply fails when it fails. -------------- If you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything.... bb1fit@freetrainers.com
kenny_wtf Posts: 195 Joined: 2005/08/08	2005/08/25, 02:31 PM i think bb1fit is right. if you use a barbell, then the lft arm will grow in such a way that it adjusts to the weight, as does the right arm, but will not go above the muscularity required for that weight.
Pritchard Posts: 1,212 Joined: 2004/03/02	2005/08/27, 10:38 AM normally my right arm looks slightly bigger than my left, because i am right handed, but i actually measured my arms flexed and my left arm is almost and inch larger, you cant really see it with the naked eye, i think im just a bit of a freak and its just weird. -------------- WHERE ARE MY NEW PICTURES... HUH?
kenny_wtf Posts: 195 Joined: 2005/08/08	2005/08/27, 01:28 PM but my arm asymmetry(mainly biceps) is noticably different. right arm bigger than left. triceps are about the same.