Imbalances

After a period of time in weightlifting, it starts to become clear where the areas of imbalance are in your body. Prior to this, I had some fleeting guesses .. I broke my right leg, so naturally my right calf had atrophied because of that experience. In fact, early on in my transformation, I hit a big problem with calf lifts--I could not lift with any weights at all. Well, I'm now up to 10kg thanks to the last few weeks and being consistent. Along with my right calf, there are other areas of my body I'd like to enumerate and discuss what to do to address these issues.

1. Right calf. Severely atrophied and visibly weaker than my left calf. Due to the leg break, my gait naturally favors my left body. Address by weekly weighted calf raises along with unweighted calf stretches after HIIT.
2. Right mid-back trapezius. This one didn't really come out until after weightlifting. But, I sense it has been there for along while caused by several factors: poor posture, leg break, etc. My mid back at around T4 has had problems for quite some time, even before the break. Address by primarily during Pull exercises: dumbbell rows, reverse dumbbell flyes, and adding in shoulder shrugs.
3. Left tricep. Before lifting weights, I did not know this was a problem. When I first tried tricep extensions, the problem became really obvious. Address by individual tricep extensions instead of doing them together.
4. Right bicep. I did not know this was really there before either. It's only a slight imbalance. Address by individual bicep curls instead of doing them together.

I started this post last night. Today I was able to perform a 15kg calf raise without too much of a problem. In fact, I exceeded most of my drop set goals today for leg exercises. So, I think I will need to up the weights next week.