Great job, Isalia 😀

I have definitely noticed my fitness has improved as it takes me a lot less time to recover and to catch my breath! If I had done this workout a year ago, I would have probably passed out but today I managed it with 12kg swings & bent over row for the inverted rows and 6kg push presses/1 arm swings and full burpees with proper pushups – yay! Was a fun workout – cheers 🙂

What a compliment 🙂 Though perhaps you are just starting to see more positives.

Though, I didn’t marry my Andrew. It wasn’t meant to be.

Thank you, Marianne. I have been trying to be more mindful of my left side– using my left hand for applying mascara, for example 😛 results can be clownish, so beware! Tomorrow I will try some heavier left-side step ups, in baby sections.

Thank you also for the great website. I can’t understand HOW you’ve managed to do this for me, but in the last month the daily visits to your website have tremendously boosted my fitness, self image, and positive relationship to body and food (LOVE synaptic surprises and all your pre-workout speeches, keep it coming!). I just feel happier. It’s my new myomytv drug 😀 Also we are both married to an Andrew lol, what a coincidence.

I think about this often as well. Interestingly, my left side (non-dominant) is not as strong as my right. As you know, Marianne, I had breast cancer on my right side. But having lived the last 43 years as a right handed/dominant person trumps what occurs ‘in the moment’. I consistently do less reps on my left side than my right, although my numbers are fairly tight. I will put my mind to initiating on the left for a bit and see where it goes.

Zobot, it is very common to have a strength difference in your legs and arms. The key is to train using exercises that use both sides together, but also have single-sided exercises too. Try to achieve the same reps in each side with the same weight. This may require you to break the main set down into bite-sized sets for the “Weaker” side. Over time, the strength difference will reduce, but it will never be 100% equal, as we are made asymetrical.

You can also start deliberately initiating things with your weaker side: walking forward with it first, reaching for doors with your non-dominant side and trying to improve the mind-muscle relationship through thinking about your weaker side more as being stronger and more responsive. All these little things will help improve muscle activation, co-ordination and strength 🙂

I did the side step ups because lunges got boring. I did them on a box at the gym with 30-pound kettlbell.

What I want to know is: am I the only one with a very weak left side (I am right-handed, so right-footed too I suppose)? My right leg could do this without a problem but I had to gather ALL my strength to get my left leg to do a heavy side step up and even then my left side could do far fewer reps.

Does anybody else have this problem? any remedies?

Thank you

zobot

Haha! Tell me about it!

*Must.resist.ordering.from.their.website* LOL