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Getbig Bodybuilding Boards => Training Q&A => Topic started by: blowitup on January 08, 2009, 08:04:59 AM
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hey guys:
i have a slight difference in arm size-my left tri is bigger and more defined than my right-and my right bicep is bigger and more defined than my left-to make things more interesting i am right handed-i train arms once a week on their own day and usually keep my workouts between 9-10 working sets for each-i was thinking of implementing more isometric exercises to help balance out my deficiancy-what do you all think? should i add extra sets to the lagging body part?
thanks
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everyone has structural imbalances, it can be brought up by specifically isolating that part adding few variety of excercise,with a more strict form, than the part is gentically tend to respond and grow,even with slighly sloppy form, adding too much sets for excercises for smaller bodyparts like bi`s n tri`s can be counter productive.
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first off you need to make your amrs equal. at the end of your bicep workout, throw inn an etra et t failure on your smaller bicep. at the end of your tricep rkou, throw in an extra set to failure on just your smaller tricep.
once your arms are equal, switch over to doing unilateral exercises only for a while. just one arm at atime. use equal weight, and count your repitions to make sure each arm is getting equal stimulation.
after a while, try going back to double hand movements, but make sure to really focus on your min -muscle connection, and to keep both arms doing equal work.
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hey guys:
i have a slight difference in arm size-my left tri is bigger and more defined than my right-and my right bicep is bigger and more defined than my left-to make things more interesting i am right handed-i train arms once a week on their own day and usually keep my workouts between 9-10 working sets for each-i was thinking of implementing more isometric exercises to help balance out my deficiancy-what do you all think? should i add extra sets to the lagging body part?
thanks
How long have you been training?
Thanks.
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Could also be genetics. I've got Jay Cutler arms (minus the size obviously... ;D) my right bi looks like it's suffered a tear, yet my left one is quite a bit longer and appears to be bigger overall. That beibng said, my right tri is probably better than my left one.....weird arms i guess... :-\
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Could also be genetics. I've got Jay Cutler arms (minus the size obviously... ;D) my right bi looks like it's suffered a tear, yet my left one is quite a bit longer and appears to be bigger overall. That beibng said, my right tri is probably better than my left one.....weird arms i guess... :-\
I've got a mate who's got completely different shaped pecs.
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thanks for the info guys i appreciate it-i worked arms today and did an extra burn out set on each of my smaller bi's and tris-ill keep with this routiene for awhile and hopefully it equals out-i have been training for about a decade and plan on doing my first bodybuilding show this summer
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My left bi is slightly more peaked, right one denser.
It happens