# Muscle Comparison and lifting **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 19, 2003, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/muscle-comparison-and-lifting/182965 "2003-06-19T17:37:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kgriffey79](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/2bfe46/32.png) [@kgriffey79](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kgriffey79)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/muscle-comparison-and-lifting/182965/1 "2003-06-19T17:37:45Z")
Hi all, and mods I’m sorry if this shouldn’t be here, but here goes. Our bodies of course aren’t perfectly symmetrical, right? But my left pectoral is noticeably(not at a glance of course) than my right. It is also the first to start to “give” when I do dumbbell presses. Will this just work itself out, or are there any lifts that I could do to let the left catch up. But then I was thinking, why just train the left, when I could be doing both. Why hinder the progress of one for the sake of the other. Eh, any help would be great. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/muscle-comparison-and-lifting/182965/2 "2003-06-19T19:03:31Z")
Stop lifting with your right side when your left side gives. ---
**Author:** ![Paco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a6a055/32.png) [@Paco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paco)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/muscle-comparison-and-lifting/182965/3 "2003-06-19T22:28:05Z")
I always just do a couple more with my left than I do with my right. There is a noticeable difference in strength, but I don’t think (hope?) there is any difference in the size of mine.