4 Causes of UNEVEN MUSCLES (and how YOU can FIX them!)

Muscle imbalances holding back your muscle size and strength? Fix them here…

are your muscle and strength and balance is messing with more than just your workouts at this point maybe messing with your head I’m going to show you today the four root causes and most importantly what you can do to try to reverse them what’s up guys jeff cavaliere athleanx. com look whether it’s the way the muscle looks or how it functions and what its strength is muscle imbalances can definitely do a number on our workouts and sometimes too on our psyche right we’re trying to figure out what is it that’s causing me to be so weak differently between my right side of my left side for instance um if I’m doing a basic curling exercise why can I curl more on the right side versus the left side or vice-versa why does it feel different on the right side versus the left side well I kind of make it contract the way that I do on the right side versus the left side why does it get tired a lot quicker on one side versus the other side these are all great questions guys and matter of fact they’re very calm okay even especially in the realm that I work in and pro athletes these guys have developed pretty significant imbalances because in some instances these imbalances work in their favor as you can imagine a baseball player you know somebody that relies on rotational power it’s obviously going to be asymmetrical right versus left depending upon what side that guy uses primarily but for us in the gym who want to try to give overall well-rounded physique and also even strength levels imbalances are crushed enough so there’s four areas that you have to look at first coordination and proprioception with coordination proprioception guys what you’re looking at is mostly back in that area where I said why does it feel different why can’t I get the muscle to contract the way that I can on the right hand side again bicep curl is a great example I’ll carry it right through all for example for causes here if you’re trying to curl away if you don’t have every component the same it’s going to possibly feel different it’s also going to mechanically put your joints at differ angles so that you may not feel the contraction the way you do on the good side let’s call that the good side why because coordination is being able to move something through space and unfortunately the biggest enemy here guys and how you going to quickly overcome this is by not using a barbell if it is again a barbell curl start getting used to using those dumbbells why because you have to be able to independently create the curling motion right and left and get it to do the same are you supinating the same amount in the forearm do you have muscle restrictions that prevent that maybe one forearm is tighten to prevent supination on the left side which prevents you from getting that little extra squeeze here on the bicep so you want to address your coordination proprioception might get it used to using dumbbells and going through the full range of motion and making sure that you have adequate flexibility throughout your entire limb if again we’re talking about the arm and the curl so that you’re not getting held back or inhibited in any way next up here guys neurological with the neurological causes here a muscle imbalance we’re really going after strength it’s why you can curl maybe 60 pounds on one hand and 45 or 50 pounds on the other and feel it equally tough here guys we have to start looking at what our our muscle activation is what is the motor unit activation how how how well patterned are we between our mind in our muscle because there can totally be differences between your right and left side especially considering that most of us have a dominant side if you are right hand dominant it’s not uncommon to not have that nerve that neurological efficiency from your brain to the muscle in the left side of your body again in the left arm because you don’t use it as much so if you’re looking at that being say how do we overcome this I think we have to sort of figure out a way to activate the muscle fibers and give them a little bit more alert to what we’re going to do in the workouts and there’s a technique I call manufacture just discussed it in our NXT program is a touch up set with a touch up set you’re going to intentionally go beyond what you normally work with if you’re normally doing your - 10 to 12 rep max of 40 pound curls then give me a 55-pound curl let me see you go above and beyond what you can you only been do three or four reps but that’s okay because you want to try to activate an alert the muscles to the loads that you’re going to possibly get to again not Network out but hopefully down the road and then come back to your working weight you’ll find that it neurologically turns on the muscles activates them to be a little bit more efficient when you go back to your working weight next up circulation problems here guys again are common a common occurrence you fatigue faster alright this is it you’re going to see this happen when you when you find that one side constantly fatigues a little bit faster than the other most often guys probably due to circulation differences between sides how do you fix that you got to start incorporating some higher rep sets into the work that you’re doing if you find that one side constantly fatigues versus the other then start doing some unilateral again dumbbell high rep sets to that side to try to improve the circulation you know studies will show that capillary density which is going to be bringing more blood flow to that area will improve if you train the area through higher reps so more oxygen deprivation get those rep sets up to fifty or so you’re going to see that you can improve the calculator density and by doing so help get more blood ‘full there and extend the length of time that you can perform those sets finally guys number four here genetics now you know how about once you use genetics as an excuse especially having come from such a skinny past to be able to have added lean muscle into my adulthood guys genetics though will play a part and have your muscles look there’s no doubt there are some people that have chests that sort of go inward bony structures that actually go in ways that they’re not normally seen that’s not something you can overcome shorter limbs longer limbs longer muscle bellies those are all things that are genetically part of the world of makeup of what you look like but that being said it doesn’t mean that if you strip off as much fat you can buy followed a healthy diet and if you train properly if you don’t train too long again I’m going to keep hammering home that point you treated your workout length for intensity you can maximize what you’ve got guys and again to incorporating some of these techniques you can really easily improve these areas so even genetics you can overcome bad genetics guys if you have the right training approach hopefully you’ll see muscle imbalances are not a curse that you’re going to have to live with forever now if you approach in the right way athlete necks is about approaching those things the right way guys so if you haven’t already you want to try to get lean athletic muscle that’s also aesthetically pleasing it looks great so that you can cover that aspect to look great and dominate on the field at the same time guys athlete X again is the program if you haven’t already make sure you come over to athleanx. com and grab our training program I hope you found this little coverage here of the types of muscle imbalances more importantly what you can do about them helpful if you did make sure you leave a comment below in the meantime we back here in just a couple days with another new workout tip for you this time addressing the very biceps will be just covered here as examples in this video until then guys have a great couple days