Workout gurus: Is it possible for a one-armed man to develop his chest evenly?

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Lemme start with how this came to mind: I recently got a bad cut on one finger, which is now bandaged. I thought to myself today, self, if it’s that inconvenient for you to have a lousy bandage on your finger, imagine what it’s like to miss the whole limb! (Y’see, I’d recently seen a fairly young boy with a leg missing, and felt sorry that someone so young had to go through such a thing.) I wondered what it would be like if my entire left arm were gone. First thing I thought of, it’d make picking up heavy or unbalanced objects a lot harder.

Then a friend, who is an amateur bodybuilder, came to mind. And I began thinking. Most chest-related exercises I know of require both arms. Is it possible for someone with one arm to have a symmetrically developed chest? If not, what would it look like after a few years of having only one arm? One huge pec and one flat one?

Odd question, I know, but if anyone could answer, it’d be you guys. Thanks! :slight_smile:

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It would depend on the amputation point of the arm. If it’s gone below the elbow, then you could improvise a lifting program for the chest muscles. If it’s gone at the shoulder then, the arm-related chest muscles would atrphy since there is no stimulus to them. You might be able to do something with electro stimulation of the muscle.

The muscles you are talking about would attach to the upper arm. If there’s nothing for them to attach to then they would not function normally. You could probably get implants:rolleyes: or something.

I visited a website recently that discussed this very topic. I can’t remember the exact address–I’ll see if I can get it. It revolves around some experiments done in the 1920s by some government doctor. He was asked to work with patients who had lost various limbs while training with/developing some kind of death ray.