I've been doing a lot of consultations with personal trainers about their postural imbalance. Also, I have consulted Olympic marathoners, professional mixed martial artists, professional soccer players and body builders. And all these people said these two comments.

1. It is difficult to use both sides equally.

- Surprisingly, even award-winning body builders have the same concern that average weight lifters have. They told me they also sometimes feel like only one side takes on more loading, especially when they lose concentration. With many years of training, their technique is probably close to perfection, so lack of technique would not be the cause for their concern. However, as a person who evaluated their body, I would say that postural imbalance is the culprit that hinders them from using both sides equally.

Indeed, their performance has become more stable with several months of postural correction exercises and I always recommend them to continue with such exercises to support them long-term.

2. It would have been better if I knew and corrected my postural imbalance from the beginning.

- In most cases, pain or performance is improved well with corrective exercises but from my experience, people who have been working out for a long time are slower to correct their postural imbalance. Postural correction can basically be completed by strengthening the inner (smaller) muscles, which are responsible for maintaining posture. Therefore, the greater the outer (bigger) muscles are positioned, the double the time and effort it takes. This is why, in my experience, less muscular women who are not particularly into fitness and exercises tend to have better/quicker outcomes from corrective exercises than weight lifters.

In fact, many people just continue working out even though they have pain or imbalance. From my point of view, that is a big no no! So I really recommend for people like this to take 1-2 months off from weight lifting and focus on postural correction before going back to lifting. Or at least take up corrective exercises as additional workouts alongside their usual routine.