How to Fix Muscle Imbalance (EQUALIZE YOUR SIZE!)

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[Applause] [Music] what’s up guys jeff cavaliere athleanx. com as a physical therapist I get paid to analyze movement I get paid to analyze my athletes performing because I know that if I can watch them perform I could pick up slight things that I may need to then take it to the weight room and help develop even further to overcome imbalances to develop more strength where a weakness might lie well the same thing again exists right here in the weight room if you’re going to be effective especially if you want to eliminate muscle imbalances you better be good at analyzing your own movement and it starts with a simple mirror if you’re going to train at home I don’t care run out and get a $10 beer from Walmart because it could become the most effective tool that you’ve ever used to start fixing muscular mounts why because I believe that 99% of all muscle imbalances are rooted in one thing and that’s postural deformity and no not to deform it to the point where they’re so obvious there’s usually very subtle but you can become very good at picking up on them if you start paying attention when you’re training here’s three examples of exactly what I’m talking about posture performers will come from we’ll be doing our everyday life and me I’m very guilty of slouching in my chair sitting back usually leaning to my right side or if I’m on the kick on the cash on the computer I got my right arm up over here I’m usually leaning over to one side what does that do well it only takes a few days of that to start getting some muscle adaptations in that same to reflect that same posture so we’ll start to get a little bit slightly higher left shoulder a little bit depressed right shoulder well watch what happens when I take that posture into the weight room without correcting it or paying attention to it when I do without the use of mirrors I go to a back workout I’m trying to do a row when I do a row I’ve got a slightly higher left side well why is the pattern in this this elevate this elevates the elbow a little bit up here and I pull back in this elbow is usually down at my side and I get a much more significant contraction here in my lap because my elbow is doing what it’s supposed to do which is add duct into my side while here it’s staying out because the elbow the shoulders are taking it up and away from my body it’s not even my elbows fault or my last ball it’s just paying the price for my bad posture so if I can get a much stronger contraction here we already know from past videos that we’re not developing the prop of my muscle connection on this other side to ever properly develop that lap or fully develop that laugh it’s a big big oversight we’ll take it even further let’s start squatting we squat with this same position here what happens I try to go down into my squat well a little bit tilted our bodies have mastered our masters of compensation we’re not going to allow it to go straight down like this we know that’s not now it’s not going to work so what happens is the left knee will have to beg more than the right to bring us back to level well that’s all good except for the fact that yeah we might be level with this left side is doing a lot more than work than the right side is so you might develop a stronger left quad and more importantly a weaker right quad or that left quad will take on so much work or the compensation will be so bad that your knee will start to hurt on the left side so has has that really given you a proper recovery from this bad posture no all you’ve done is learn to work around it but if you were working out in a mirror you saw this light this slight movement imbalance from left to right you can fix it and when you can fix it you can train that way a lot of guys will try to use a technique where they lift a little bit more weight on the right side I do a few extra reps on that weaker side yeah those are okay techniques guys but I think if you’re looking at the fact that most of these things are rooted in our own postural imbalances then it becomes more of an issue of fixing it at its root costs and the way you get a Fixodent root cause is to identify it first with that mirror last example a lot of us have this rounded shoulder posture right foreign shoulders what does that do for our tricep training if we’re dominant with our right side and we tend to be a little bit more rounded and develop internally this side right versus our left we know that the tries step two fully contract needs to be back and extend it behind our body a little bit one of those main functions there one of its functions is to at least extend the arm behind our body so the arm that’s extended here it can contract the triceps like that all right from here out in front of us but when we can actually get the triceps back behind our body here now we have the entire tri-state contracting is fully and strongly as it possibly can and we get a better development overall so the guy that has one arm smaller than the other guess what the problem again might be rooted in the fact that you have these small imperceptible imbalances possibly between your right and left sides that unless you stick yourself in front of a mirror and see that what you’re doing pull downs or push downs that this side is more rotated around than this woman the other one is you want to fix it okay so we don’t all have the luxury of having a guy like a PT like me to be able to follow you around and tell you when you’re doing these things so you guys start training yourself to spot these imbalances in your posture so you can get rid of them in your training you can you can you can definitely get rid of you just got to start paying attention to those that exist in training even if it means life of the wait just a little bit so you can develop that mind-muscle connection a little bit more and start taking your movements through in a very balanced way you’ll start to overcome them so again you might not have a PT at your disposal I can do this for you but it doesn’t mean that you don’t have to access the same programming and with that guys you can get the athleanx training system in my training system I give you the exercises the step-by-step meals of meal plans day-by-day workouts everything you need to equip yourself to train at the top level just like my pro athletes do to train there but I teach you also the tools you’re going to need to take with you through those workouts you get the most out of every single one of them alright and that’s what we do here that’s what training like an athlete is all about so we’re overlooking nothing making sure that everything that it needs to be inflation your workouts is there and again the entire system and athleanx. com in our athleanx training system I hope you found this video helpful and you can start to see where some of those imbalances that you thought you might have it’s one side of the chest is bigger than the other it has a root cause in some sort of postural imbalance that you could set something that you set up yourself because of the way you stand or position yourself all day long but it can’t be reversed with some dedication and attention to fixing it alright guys found this helpful like I said leave a comment and a thumbs up below and whatever else is that you’d like to see make sure you leave those below too and of course I’ll make those videos in the coming weeks see you guys [Music]