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Why is one side tighter than the other?
Why is one side tighter than the other?
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Written by Andrew Luckenbill
Updated over a year ago

If you notice that one side is tighter than the other, you're experiencing how the right side is not working well, with the left side, many of you on this call might actually have a right ankle, right knee, right hip and right shoulder noticeably tighter than the other side, you've lost that bidirectional rhythm of both sides of the nervous system and muscles, being capable of working well together, of receiving stress and producing stimulus.

All right, the only way we're going to fix that, and this is what's counterintuitive. It's not stretching the tight side, strengthening the weak side, your we can't separate sides with the body.

When you do something to one side, even if I'm doing a shoulder stretch to one arm, I'm still doing something different on the other side to create that stretch.
If we approach imbalance with imbalance, that doesn't equal balance, it actually perpetuates further imbalance. And that's that's very counterintuitive and believe when I've chased that road of let's just focus on the weak side or the tight side or the strong side.


If there's dysregulation and there's imbalance, we have to give the right side, the same orders as the left side and over time and patience and practicing consistency. The overactive side is going to calm down. The underactive side is going to up regulate. Maybe it's not perfect, maybe a teeter totter is back and forth a little bit until we can find homeostasis, and that is when these problems become resolved.

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