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Fix Unbalanced Bicep Strength

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Hey guys. Ultra skelly here. I lifted from last spring to September and was making pretty good progress. Then Ihad some health problems (gastriparesis if you want to google shit) which fucked with my digestive track and I dropped from around 150lb skelly to 110lb Auschwitz survivor. Recently climbed back to 122lb and a specialist was able to find a medication that let's me eat again.

Hit the gym for the first time since September last night, naturally all my gains are gone across the board which has was disheartening, but I'm most upset about biceps.
I started with 20lb dumbbells for curls. My right (dominant) arm hit 12 reps in my first set, my left was able to do maybe 2.5 reps. 2, really. They seem extremely mismatched in strength and I'm not sure why. They used to be somewhat even, and you would think my weight loss would have been uniform throughout my body.

Any tips on how to fix this? I have a feeling my tris are a little unbalanced to, with my delts and chest being the only even muscles right now.

Pic was me before chronic weight loss
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>>40627353
yes. keep lifting. train them as equally as possible, but if you miss a couple reps for lefty don't beat urself up about it

also, get dumbells next to ur desk for curls
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train your left arm more? Really what kind of answer are you expecting here?

You need to butcher two cows and form a triangle from their entrails and pray to our lord and saviour natty king three times a week and the god of all biceps will come down and even them out of you
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Focus on barbell exercises, your left and right side will gradually balance out as you work them together. If you're doing unilateral exercises do the weaker side first and match it with your dominant side if you end up failing the set.
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>>40627365
How do I train them equally though? I mean, if it was 2 less reps on my left side I could just stop my right arm a bit prematurely, but 10 reps is pretty big.

I mean if I drop my dumbbells to the point where my left can do say, 10 solid reps, my right would probably be able to do 20+. Should I really be stopping my right arm when it has the ability to do so many reps per set?
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>>40627381
>Should I really be stopping my right arm when it has the ability to do so many reps per set?
Yes, no point in looking like Quasimodo. Imbalances also make you injury prone.
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>>40627391
Alright, that makes sense. It's just shitty having to stop yourself when you're capable of more, if that makes sense. Is there even a point of curling with my right at that point? Is doing 10 reps when I could be doing 25 actually going to strengthen it at all? Or should I just disregard my right bicep for a while and focus exclusively on the left?
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>curling

Unironically do starting strength you fucking pleb
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>>40627431
Can't, previous injuries + scoliosis make squats literally impossible and deadlifts extremely painful. I still try to deadlift now and then but q program based around them isn't for me.
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>>40627407
Yes, you should still train your right side. Do curls with a barbell or an ez bar, that should cut down on the tedium of having to work your right arm with a relatively light load. Curls aren't that important for a beginner anyway, how are you with chin ups and pull ups? Do you have the same problem with your deadlift/OHP/bench? These are your big upper body strength builders, not curls.

How did your arms get so uneven anyway? I had my left hand crushed, my arm immobilized for weeks and lost parts of my fingers and it still wasn't that much weaker than my right side when I went back to the gym.
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>>40627452
Bench seems fine. I was doing chest press with dumbbells yesterday, left side was a bit shaky but I was able to complete each set. Didn't do OHP yesterday but was able to do even strength on shoulder press, left side just shook a bit more towards the end of the set.

As for why this had happened I have no idea. Have a doctor's appointment today so I might bring it up and see if she had any idea.
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