Hi, my name is Sergio from Laredo, Texas and my AX Jeff question is,
How can I properly form my Pecs?
I've been following your workouts and I do get results on both muscles.
I do feel the growth.
I feel more like my right Pec has better shape and
I want to see how I can balance them out and have this one start forming properly.
So any tips you can give me will really help.
What's up Sergio?
Thank you for your question.
That is a great question.
It's actually very, very, very common.
Matter of fact, yours truly doesn't have balanced Pecs.
You see if you look here at mine, you see that basicly this Pec here, my left Pec kind
of takes a sharp turn and heads out this way.
Whereas this one kind of comes all the way down to the top here of my Abs and it comes
over and it makes it's turn.
So what causes it, what can you do to fix that if that's your issue.
Nothing.
It's all about how your muscles attach, and here as they attach to the Sternum, for whatever
reason,
this here, this area is just not attaching all the way immediately, as much as my Pec
on my right.
The fibers come all the way here and attach right on to the Sternum, whereas here they
just don't make it all the way across.
They attach right to the very outer portion, remember your Sternum is going to kind of
splay out here at the bottom.
So they're attaching more to the outer portion of the Sternum, they obviously still have
to connect to bone in order to be anchored.
But they're attaching way further out on my Sternum than let's say, these are, where they're
coming all the way on the top right down the midline.
So if that's not your problem though, if there's something let's say you just have say, one
Pec is much smaller than the other.
That problem can be addressed in 2 different ways.
Number 1.
You want to do a little bit of unilateral work.
Because especially if you're doing a Barbell Bench Press,
the first thing you want to do is swap in some Dumbbells.
Because when you bring the Dumbbells into play it forces you to be a little bit more
in command of each side individually, right.
You want to try to move them together so it's going to cause you to not be able to rely
on one stronger side than the other.
The second thing you can do, actually part of that, so that's 1A, 1B,
would be once you have those Dumbbells in your hands,
try to put down the one on your stronger side and do the one on your weaker side by itself.
I know it sounds crazy, it might actually increase the length of your workout
but it's going to allow you to really squeeze and try to gain more mind-muscle control over
that muscle.
Likely if it's a lot smaller than the other, I bet you're probably lacking a good ability
to contract that muscle.
And they are independant of each other.
You can have one that's more neurologically turned on and something more in control of
what you do, than the other.
So especially if you're right handed versus left handed.
So what you'll try to do is again, squeezing, and let the other hand be your guide.
It should be doing something.
It shouldn't just be hanging out here.
So touch right on the fibers of the chest here and as you contract, try to make them
contract hard under your fingers.
Try to make the muscle do the work.
Ok, that's number 1.
The second thing that you can do is to just add a little bit of additional volume to that
side.
So on another day when you're doing a pushing movement or pushing muscle group, right.
You can come in with some additional one armed chest work on that day to increase your overall
volume for sort of a work cycle.
So if you're training your body over the course of a week or five days or 8 days.
Whatever your training cycle is, you want to get a little of additional volume per cycle
in
and you could do that by incorporating a few added sets of that same side.
And again work your way up as you can and wait, you'll see that just with that additional
mind-muscle control,
if you're not dealing with an issue like I am, then you're going to start to see those
Pecs balance out.
Sergio I hope this helps you and I hope anybody else out there that's dealing with especially
a Pec imbalance
that this will clarify at least, which direction that you're going.
Is it one that you really can't fix too much or is it something that you do have an opportunity
to.
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