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Hey guys, Jeff Cavaliere from ATHLEANX.com This week what we're gonna do is actually
have a little bit of departure and go to a tip.
You guys write in a lot of times and say, how do I equalize left and the right side
muscles and balances.
You know, whether it would be a strengthen balance, whether it would be a sizing balance,
because that is common, I mean if you are dominantly right hands or left handed it is
common that you have bigger muscles on that side from your fingers , from your wrist and
forearm all the way to the shoulders.
But not just in the development but also in the strength.
And the best tip I could probably give you is to actually workout with dumbbells that
are unequal in weight.
Now, what I've got here and some of you guys joked and called these posters, but they actually
are dumbbells, they are called power blocks, but it's gonna have 20 pounds in my right
arm, and 30 pounds in my left arm.
Now, let's just say that the right arm is the one that's underdeveloped.
Basically as I lift up with these, I'm gonna do a regular curl, this one's gonna have the
tendency to wanna accelerate because it's lighter, but this one's gonna be a little
bit harder because it's probably more of my actually strength level.
So the thing is that in order to move these things, the tip is actually to move these
things at equal speed.
So we're gonna bring them up together, which forces me to kind of concentrate over here
more, and slow this thing, you know, slow it down.
The tendency again is to wanna come up a little too fast, this one will lag behind.
We're gonna force it to go the same speed, so coming up, driving up here, and then I
gotta come down slow.
So, combine that with another major principle of ATHLEAN-X is the time and attention, actually
slowing down your repetitions.
If you just do reps and keep swinging, you just drop them, you're really not working
so much the tension on the muscle , more or so you're working on momentum and that's not
a good thing, that's not how you're gonna build muscle and get it lean.
So, combine really two principles on ATHLEAN-X, you now are gonna have to use unequal weights
and then move them at the same speed.
Now I could easy use that for another exercise as well.
We could do shoulder presses.
So, again, 20 over here.
This one just wanna fly up, this one's just gonna probably gonna cause a little bit more
trouble for me to get it up, but we're gonna move them together, so that my muscle link
between moving this way and actually getting the muscle to fire in this case the shoulders,
trying to get the shoulders to fire, we are now forcing our body and our minds to kind
of concentrate on what we're trying to do, and that itself is gonna equalize development.
You're gonna start to activate muscles that you don't really have good control right now,
by forcing yourself to concentrate and slowing down.
Now, obviously don't do all you're sets on only one side.
You're gonna have to switch it up and go to the other side.
Bring the 30 pounds, ok, and the 20 on the other side, and the same thing.
Now, guys, this is not about saying that I have a week arm and I gotta use 20 or 30 pounds
to make a difference, is more-so about the unequal weights that force your mind to concentrate.
So, if you haven't already guys,if you want some unique training, if you want exercise
that force your muscles to grow in unique ways, then start the ATHLEAN-X program.
We build into the program lots of unique stuff like this, trying to educate you as to how
to actually build muscle and not just, you know, roll the dice and hope it works.
You know, you might as well get the most of the time you spent in the gym that's why ATHLEAN-X
was created.
So, head to athleanx.com right now and grab the ATHLEAN-X Training System, working all
this kind of principles right into the program already, and guys in the next 90 days get
the best results that you possibly can.
I'll see you here next week again, I know I've promised a band video, I've got a really,
really, really unique use of the bands coming up next week.
I'll talk to you soon!