Mobility disproportion between left and right leg

[Jaroslav Gray]

Hi, I'll start another topic about a little problem I've found during my work on the leg mobility/flexibility. My right leg is much tighter than the left one. I've followed Daily Five for a month and also I've completed Ido Portal's 30/30 Squat Challenge. I love working on hip mobility right now but there're two problems i've found:

- During my work on PPT in F1 GST training i often feel a pain inside front side of my right knee, a sharp one but not so strong. Something it's wrong over there. Sometimes i feel pain in between back of my right hip/leg connection also. Right now i've figured out that putting a cap/towel between my knees and squeezing them helps a lot.

- There's gap between my left and right mobility in cossack squat, also i'm feeling that my right hip joint capsule is very tight, I can stand on the left leg for minute or so, but balancing on my right it's very hard.

What should i do to correct this? Work more on the right?

[Kit_L]

During my work on PPT in F1 GST training

Can you make an image of that exercise (we have been banned from both the forums and the on-line products, so can't work out what PPT means).

This kind of symmetry is extremely common. The easiest way to start to correct it is to begin with the weaker side and only duplicate the number of reps you can do on the weak side with the strong side. Of course your body will want to do more reps on the strong side but if you can hold yourself back you'll find that the weaker side will progress much more rapidly. And this is the bit that no one understands: showing the weak side what the strong side feels like is a major part of that correction process.

If we're talking about flexibility now the approach is different. If you're tight on one side, always begin with that side and do the looser side next; feel that that feels like and then do the tight side once more. This will give you double the amount of work on the tight side and, by comparing it with the looser side consciously, you change what the brain thinks about the tight side.

On the strength dimension, even though I am very strongly left-arm dominant, my right arm is now the stronger of the two having followed this protocol for years.

[Jaroslav Gray]

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That's the picture of the exercise . I'm often feel strange pain in my right knee or on the back of my hip.

[Kit_L]

J., do you mean that just tilting the pelvis backwards while lying on the floor has this effect in the knee?

[Jaroslav Gray]

Kit,

I'm feeling pain when im moving to the limits on my ROM and sometimes also connection between my right hip/leg. My right hamstring is always tight. Even after limbering just few minutes of sitting ends in tight right hamstring (or maybe its tight P.?).

I'm working on D5 and also stretch two times a week + following F1 and H1 for mobility. After some time I've found that for whole my life my body was without balance. Working on that right now

I'll post a pictures soon

[Kit_L]

Jaroslav wrote:

After some time I've found that for whole my life my body was without balance.

Much more common than you might think, and a wonderful thing to be aware of (though difficult in the beginning).

I have a big leg length difference (>15mm); and that has meant back pain at different times most of my life. Reducing the functional differences in strength and flexibility has not changed the skeleton at all, but totally changed my experience of living in this body.