This morning I just noticed my right lat is alot bigger than my left what are some good exercises to correct this I can think of some but my biceps and the rest of my back are even and I want a way to do this without really screwing up my program because I have completly dedicated programs to correcting my legs but I really don’t want to do something like that right now and do not mind if it takes ahwile.
By the way I think this may have happened because I used to do one arm arm hangs to failure and my right arm could always last longer.
With the one handed chins, your other hand will be holding on to your main arm. This is different (easier) than one armed chins and might work to balance out the lats.
Another option is to do one arm motorcycle rows with the cable station.
I would very intensely stretch the smaller lat out after training to the point of pain(and beyond). Whatever your routine is say t bar rows chins and dead lifts, after the deads grab onto a sturdy object like a squat rack and try to “drag” it across the floor getting a deep and nasty stretch in the lat. Do this religiously until your lats even up. The stretching should open up more room in the left lat and allow it to grow rapidly, give it a shot.
Has anyone ever read about fascial stretching? I’m not too well versed in the theory myself, I believe John Parillo wrote a whole book about it, but I did see an Active Release practitioner once, and he explained how soft tissue can get all impinged and you need to have the muscle relearn what it’s supposed to be doing. Actually, now that I think about it, Ronnie Coleman’s lat injury had to do with the nerve signal not getting to the muscle fibers (I’m not a doctor, I’m just repeating here!). Is it possible that you have some sort of impingement, and need to have the area checked?
Stu fascia stretching what I was getting at with the very intense stretching. I would look into a nerve problem if the lats once were even and then one side wouldn’t “open up” in a lat spread, but it’s probably just size difference I’m guessing.
A lot of people think that fascia stretching isn’t possible but something is going on when you extreme stretch, deep tissue massage, foam roll, etc. I don’t have a link to it now but I’m sure if you search bird wing stretches and hyperplasia you’ll find something VERY interesting. What I’ve found(and it was found well before me by Parillo, Dante Trudel, Jay Schroeder etc) is inreased recovery, faster muscle growth and more roundness to the muscle bellies. Lats, quads, and triceps most noticeably for me.
And even though it’s certainly a touchy subject and NOT something I’d recommend to anyone at this point…
That’s the way synthol/pumpnpose products work. The oil stretches out the tissue surrounding the muscle and allows room for more growth, the oil doesn’t sit in there(when done correctly) like many people presume.
Someone would benefit greatly from getting an extreme blood pump(ideally via strength work but a high rep isolation movement if they so choose) and then very forcefully stretching the fascia while the muscle is at it’s fullest. Add in jacked up carb and water intake(for glycogen storage) and you’ve got a recipe for enhanced localized growth, in this case for the weaker lat but eventually the whole body. Just something to think about…
Thanks for the help will definetly try that stuff. It doesn’t have to do with being unable to flex it becaus I wasn’t when I noticed I wasn’t wearing a shirt and bent over to pick up my shirt(as if I was trying to grad my toes) looked over at the mirror and was like awesome because I noticed my lat was a good about bigger and popping out so I wanted to check the other side and I did and was like what the hell because it wasn’t popping out and felt both and the right one was harder too.
Just noticed one more thing the upper part is the same size what I mean is the part that makes up the back of your armpart so I geuss it is that thing with the tissue or whatever but the problem is I only feel that sretch in the upper part I geuss use the foam roller than?
That’s actually a different muscle, the teres major.
When you’re doing bilateral work, try to focus on the left side. When you’re doing unilateral work make sure the right side only does what the left side does. It’ll work itself out.
I’ll just say it’s your left side(that’s smaller) for the purposes of describing this, switch it around if it’s the other.
Gragging a pole/machine with a rounded back very forcibly lean back and try to rip that thing you are holding in half. As you do that shift your hips and lean with them slightly to the right, this should move the stretch all the way down to your waist. Only do this very forceful stretching after training please though, you could injure yourself if you try it while cold.