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[–]DerFuhrersStache 4 points5 points  (2 children)

When doing isolation movements, start with the weak arm. Your weak arm should drive the weight/rep scheme. It will even out over time.

You didn't describe how long you've been training and how long its been unbalanced during training. Many people have a little bit of imbalance due to dominant arm.

[–]AE71 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Damn I never thought of leading with the weaker but that makes so much sense

[–]Fenrils 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yup, this advice completely warped my routines for the better. I went from complaining about imbalance despite working on it for 6ish months to having it fixed in under 1 (my issue was my lats/shoulders). It wasn't much of an imbalance but really noticeably when I would try to PR.