one leg almost an inch bigger than other

[ssdark1]

about 3 years back i had reconstructive surgery on my right knee. by the time i was able to start rehab my leg had shriveled up and looked like an old man's. i've built both of my legs up quite a bit but they are still uneven by almost an inch. how do i correct this? ive thought about just training that one leg on legs day so it would grow and the other one would shrink a bit until they were even. two problems. the idea of any kind of shrinkage (especially done on purpose) makes me uncomfortable. two, i really dont want to give up squats as im making good progress with them. maybe just some additional leg work on that leg after squats? ive thought of that as well but im sure it would take longer...

any suggestions?...thanks.

 

[Twenty of Four]

keep lifting heavy on squats, the other leg is bound to catch up sooner or later,

if your desperate and i wouldnt rec. try syntherol

 

[Chrysler]

Do a normal leg workout and follow with a leg workout where you only work the weaker leg followed by a normal workout...so on and so forth.

Or do some heavy squats at the beginning of the workout and finish up with only doing unilateral training for the weaker leg.

 

[BeastNik]

about 3 years back i had reconstructive surgery on my right knee. by the time i was able to start rehab my leg had shriveled up and looked like an old man's. i've built both of my legs up quite a bit but they are still uneven by almost an inch. how do i correct this? ive thought about just training that one leg on legs day so it would grow and the other one would shrink a bit until they were even. two problems. the idea of any kind of shrinkage (especially done on purpose) makes me uncomfortable. two, i really dont want to give up squats as im making good progress with them. maybe just some additional leg work on that leg after squats? ive thought of that as well but im sure it would take longer...

any suggestions?...thanks.

I broke my femur up high near the hip a few years ago and had to have a plate and a bunch of screws put in there for it to heal. That quad has never been the same size as the other one since, and even the calf on that leg is smaller than the other. Probably something your going to have to live with.

 

[ssdark1]

twenty- thats what i thought too. keep going heavy on squat and it will catch up, but it just hasnt. im pretty sure im going to have to put a little more effort into it.

chrysler- good ideas, might give the first one a try.

bn- a broken femur sounds like it would suck. im not willing to just live with it man, making my body what i want is the reason i got into this shit in the first place...

 

[norm1220]

I know more than a little about this.... shattered my right leg and took two years and more operations than I care to count to walk again.

Train your legs with unilateral work (one leg at a time) until they are close to the same strength. Leg ex. , leg curls, leg presses, even one leg squats on the smith machine.

Always lead with the weaker leg and then do the same weight/reps with the stronger one.

 

[JMumf]

I broke my femur up high near the hip a few years ago and had to have a plate and a bunch of screws put in there for it to heal. That quad has never been the same size as the other one since, and even the calf on that leg is smaller than the other. Probably something your going to have to live with.

I had the same injury and surgery. It is almost like the surgeon removed the lower portion of my vastus lateralis. Really throws off my symmetry.

 

[full_belly]

bro those are all great reccomendations. i have cerebral palsey on my left side and whilst my leg works well, there is a couple inch difference. having comperted three times im vehemently workin to fix it.

i do a DC style workout and on the three seperate leg workout programs, i do the following; on one day i do normal squats as reccommended above, on the 2nd i do leg press and db dead lifts for the smaller leg(along with calf), on the third i do a two leg movement that i can do the negative on the smaller leg only such as hacks or smythe squats,

hope that helps bro, and if anyone has a suggestion for me??? please all welcome

 

[BeastNik]

I had the same injury and surgery. It is almost like the surgeon removed the lower portion of my vastus lateralis. Really throws off my symmetry.

The incision went right through the thick part of my quad all the way down to the femur bone, its like 12 inches long too, it does look as if some of the muscle was removed, when putting both my legs together and comparing it is very noticeable. Im not a bodybuilder so it does not bother me too much, I figure that quad will never be the same as it was.

 

[Ashop]

we recently measured a client and he had one arm 18" and the other 19 1/4"
maybe try one leg alternating exercises.

 

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[builtbydezign]

I broke my femur up high near the hip a few years ago and had to have a plate and a bunch of screws put in there for it to heal. That quad has never been the same size as the other one since, and even the calf on that leg is smaller than the other. Probably something your going to have to live with.

I am in the same boat myself. My left is smaller than my right. Training legs hard they both grow but my left is still lacking. I will be starting with my left leg first and using isolated movements to see if it helps :/

 

[johnjuanb1]

keep lifting heavy on squats, the other leg is bound to catch up sooner or later,

if your desperate and i wouldnt rec. try syntherol

I agree completely! Just keep lifting hard and it will come up over time. My surgery has my left and right leg looking completely different. The funny thing is the surgery leg looks worse to me but appears bigger in video.

 

[adam soza]

I go nuts about symmetry and what one thing thing looks bigger than the other side and it bothers me to no extent that shit is anxiety provoking. I am done doing extra exercises to try to fix what when I look is different because I'm not a good judge. I don't even have an inch difference and still it bothers me. I'm just gonna train like I would normally and hope everything "evens out".

 

[Spacey]

I had strength imbalance in my legs due to sciatica and this is what worked for me:

After squats and hack squats, move to unilateral seated leg raises. Start with weaker leg and go to failure, then switch to stronger leg and go to failure again, then immediately, make up the difference with the weaker leg. For example, let's say failure means 8 reps for the weaker leg and 12 reps for the stronger leg. Then one complete set would be: 8 (weak leg), 12 (strong leg), 4 (weak leg). Then rest for two minutes and go again for three sets.

The advantage of this approach is that you are still training the stronger leg is still worked to failure. If you only did 8 reps with both legs, you aren't training the stronger leg.

 

[AshopRep]

One of mine is an inch bigger then the other also, but I don't really notice a difference except for when I roll up my shorts and one pant leg is tighter then the other.

 

[RONJON]

a lot of the time it is due to nerve damage if it is associated with an injury..my bud tore his mcl, cal, and medial meniscus playing football and the nerve regeneration just was out of wack or something. One leg and calve is quite a bit bigger than the other