What's going on everyone? Welcome to the fit, healthy, and most of all happy podcasts. I'm

our coach and host Josh here with his co-host and co-coach, KG, and I'm in the house. And today we are

giving you surefire ways to fix muscle and strength and balances in your body. Most people in general

will have one dominant strong side and one weaker side and if this is an address

this can lead to your body looking really out of sync as well as your lifts being really

imbalance we've all seen that person bench pressing and we're like what the heck is going on only

one side's coming up the bar is completely diagonal look super unsafe you want to avoid that before

you get there and first thing I want to say is

it is incredibly common to have some form of imbalances or a dominant side it's just how it works

and you're going to learn more as to why in this episode you're also going to learn how to fix it

so depending on where you are maybe it's not that bad right now still definitely tune in listen to

these tools so you have them available if it's starting to get a little bit bad or you're noticing it, use these tips. And if things are absolutely okay for now, you don't necessarily need to incorporate these things. But if you notice them getting worse, it's a great opportunity to jump in and make sure you do take advantage of them. So we're going to jump into it. And my first tip is to understand that dominant hands will

usually be dominant with a few exceptions. So if you're right handed, chances are your right side

will be your strong side. The reason for this is you're navigating life with this hand. You're

picking things up with this hand. You're opening doors. Naturally, it's going to get more

involvement. And although it's not crazy repetitions in the gym, these little things can add up. For me, what's unique is my left hand is actually stronger than my right. I have theories as to why this is. My number one probably is even when I used to be a PT, I'd lift a lot of plates for people. I had really strong, awesome clients. And I'd always give them that VIP service of putting on their plates for them. And even for my own journey, I've always carried things with my left hand. For whatever reason, that's made me a little bit stronger. I've leveled this out more and more now and I'd say they're pretty similar, the two sides. But in general, I like to have my right hand free for more technical things. So texting, changing a song, whatever, where I'm holding that plate.

And the first step is understanding what side is dominant and why it might be dominant.

The second step is looking to change that up.

So if you're someone who's always carrying your kids or the car seat with your left hand,

you get your child in your left hand, start doing your right.

It's going to feel a little bit odd.

But this can naturally start to level out that gap and you'll actually see this transform into the gym. And you'd be amazed, but just the amount of repetitions you do in life with your dominant hand. So if you try and switch and use that other hand for some of the more less technical things that are a little bit heavier, you may find that you'll notice that you can kind of do this outside of the gym and level things out a lot better. So these are my first two kind of intro tips. The other ones are going to be a lot more tangible and in the gym. And Kyle's going to tell you number three. Yeah, and number three is just adding in some unilateral training. So even today, Josh and I crushed legs. And we did a couple of great movements.

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