muscle imbalance?

I noticed that in my natural stance, my shoulders are pulled back slightly. I'm trying to figure out whether I have a muscle imbalance. Would this be the result of an imbalance between my posterior and anterior delts, or an imbalance between my back and chest muscles?
 
thanks, that was my initial thought. the delts are probably too small to develop a pronounced imbalance. good article you pointed me to.
 
i'm about to finish that program up now and it's very, very good although i wish my shoulders were pulled back slightly...if anything you're tight throught he upper back and weak throught he chest which is very unusual with all the benching done these days
 
No cheeto, after what ive been told, to fix an imbalance you have to make an imbalance the other way. like if your upper back is weak and chest is strong, pulling your shoulders foreward, you need to work the upper back more than the chest. im pretty sure about that.

That training program seemed pretty complicated, and i wont have time to go to the gym 4 days a week :( I know i have crappy posture and should really do something about it.
 
well, bad posture comes from one muscle being too long and one too short, am i right?
if you train them both equally, they will just get equally stronger and equally shorters, doesnt fix anything..
 
Cheeto said:
I know the general rule is to do both equally with the same volume, i.e. do your weaker body part first, then do exactly same number of reps for the stronger. The rest will sort itself out, from the weaker part getting more load and the stronger part eventually not getting enough load to cause hypertrophy. Of course this depends on many factors, but if you want a quick fix, I guess you could do more on your weaker part, but I wouldn't recommend it.

I'm sure someone who knows more will chime in soon.

It is these muscle imbalances and the different way exercises hit the muscles that I tell people not to do body-part splits and definately don't do more than one exercise per muscle group.

I've seen pictures of guys with the anterior position of the scapulae and it looks pretty sad.

Rows fix that. For the OPs problem, you'll want to start hitting the bench presses: flat, decline, incline. Take up the volume on them.
 
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