Un-Even Chest

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DiabloDj1

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My left pec is a tad smaller than the right. I'd like to have them even out.
Will it be best to work both and hope they even out naturally?
Or, should I do an extra workout a day on the left pec.. if so what single pectoral workout can I do?..

Thanks.

Note: I'm on my second week of weight training. I've been sick and couldnt work through it until today so..yea, diet will be worked on at the end of this week.

Routine for chest is as follows:
4x8 on all
Bench Press
Inc. Bench Press
Flies (machine or DB)
DB Bench Press

So anything I should add there?
 
christ.

Ok, you're a newbie weight trainer, so your routine sucks. it looks like it came outta FLEX magazine. problem is, you don't have the body of the guys in FLEX.

ditch the 'one body part a day' program you're apparently on, and try full body routines.

I don't know anybody that does flat bench, incline bench, decline bench and flyes in the same day...at least nobody with a physique I respect.

as for your original question: do some chest pressing with dumbbells for a while, so your right pec can't carry more of the workload than your left pec.

perfect symmetry is hard to achieve.
 
my chest is uneven too a bit, my left pec is bigger. But , dont work out one pec and not the other. Over time perhaps theyll even out.

But someone once told me the trick is to get them both huge, so the difference is not that apparent :)
 
malkore said:
christ.


I don't know anybody that does flat bench, incline bench, decline bench and flyes in the same day...at least nobody with a physique I respect.



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Ive been doing it that way for a long time.... Just outta curiosity, what would you suggest?
 
malkore said:
christ.

Ok, you're a newbie weight trainer, so your routine sucks. it looks like it came outta FLEX magazine. problem is, you don't have the body of the guys in FLEX.

ditch the 'one body part a day' program you're apparently on, and try full body routines.

I don't know anybody that does flat bench, incline bench, decline bench and flyes in the same day...at least nobody with a physique I respect.

as for your original question: do some chest pressing with dumbbells for a while, so your right pec can't carry more of the workload than your left pec.

perfect symmetry is hard to achieve.
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Hm. Ok thanks.
And I do 2 body parts a day.
That day is chest/bi's
I know I could do chest/tri's but im tryin this now, i kinda like it compared to what i used to do with the chest/tri's thing.

and thanks for the response there too mike.
 
I think everyone starts off doing chest/tris - back/bis - legs abs
then the next stage in the evolution is chest/bis - back/tri - legs/abs

but to be 100% honest with you, that sucks!
There is no room for deadlifts, and your prob gonna over train your arms.

If your gonna do a split, go with
Chest/lats/abs/obliques - cos chin ups and lat pulls with train the abs, decline bench with hit the lats. and you are in a good posstion for working the obliques with hanging twists.

Traps/shoulders/legs - cos this will allow you to do deads, clean and press.

sure change your routien every few months, but this should be your primary split. Otherwise your gonna end up only doing Isolation work.
 
R.Lewis...that is just the skeleton of my split. I do squats and RDL's on the same day, so on "core" days I lay off of my lower back. Why train my core different then other parts? Well, one needs a strong core, and I'm still giving them enough rest to recover before hitting them again. As far as sets/reps, I do a little higher rep than my other muscles (generally 12-15), but not much.
 
xtonymarsx said:
R.Lewis...that is just the skeleton of my split. I do squats and RDL's on the same day,
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Same day as what?


xtonymarsx said:
Why train my core different then other parts? Well, one needs a strong core, and I'm still giving them enough rest to recover before hitting them again. As far as sets/reps, I do a little higher rep than my other muscles (generally 12-15), but not much.
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Why do we do our resistance training of different day to cardio?

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so why is it ok to train your abs on cardio days.

If you train your core in your workout with the other muscles you can do more compound exercises and train your whole core rather than just Isolating your abs and obliques.
 
1. Squats and RDL's both come on leg/shoulder day.

2. I do some steady state cardio as a cool down on my normal lifting days. Like I said, that was just a skeleton. I said that I do core/cardio when I should have said core/HIIT.

3. I don't like my combined workout (resistance and cardio) to take up much more than an hour a day. So, I put my core training with my HIIT training to keep it within that hour. Also, I don't like to do intense cardio, and I'd be more prone to skipping HIIT days if my core workout wasn't with it

4. My workouts are based mainly around compound exercises. It's not like I do ONLY isolation...quite the opposite.
 
1 - you didn't have a leg/shoulder day in your earlyer post, thats prob what confused us.

2 - Its still not a great idea to do resistance training and cardio (even HITT) in the same workout.
 
DiabloDj1 said:
Hm. Ok thanks.
And I do 2 body parts a day.
That day is chest/bi's
I know I could do chest/tri's but im tryin this now, i kinda like it compared to what i used to do with the chest/tri's thing.

and thanks for the response there too mike.
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sorry, you caught me in a bad mood before :eek:

its basically just too much chest work for one session, unless you're only doing 2 sets per exercise...in which case you spend too much time moving from bench station to bench station to flyes. the fact is it takes a few years of dedicated training to get your body used to 3 kinds of pressing plus flyes and dips all in one session. its just too much volume for the 'typical' trainee, and way way way too much for a novice trainee.
And its exactly why you see routines like that in a big bodybuilder mag like FLEX. its also why huge bodybuilders only hit the chest once a week...they destroy it with high volume, keep frequency to once per week, and spend 5-6 days recovering.

training is always a progression, where volume and frequency are always important to keep properly balanced for your level of training experience.

variety is great, but it doesn't have to be all in one session. on one day, do some inclined presses, some flat dumbbell presses, and then a couple sets of flyes. done. caput.

and I'd take a day off between chest/bis and your back day so bi's can recover a little. and remember bis and tris are tiny muscles, and thus need fewer exercises and fewer total sets than your chest and back.
 
Hmm.. Ok..
Well I'll probly end up doing an entire new workout routine by.. midway november? before then some time hopefully..

Thanks for the help, i understand with the whole bad mood thing, w.e you can be helpful in anger too xP
 
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