deadlift grip and uneven lat development

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I always noticed back when I used to work out that my right lat was

visibly more developed than my left lat. It was confusing, because I

didn't notice any imabalance when I did exercises that I assumed were

the main exercises influencing my lat development (especially pullups

and lat pulldowns, to some extent rows).

The trainer who showed me how to deadlift taught me to use an

alternating grip, with my left palm down and my right palm up. I

spent several years deadlifting like this.

I've been out of the gym a couple years but joined one a month ago and

have been using the alternating grip on the deadlift.

I noticed two nights ago that my right lat is visibly more developed

than my left, and then I remembered always noticing this before.

Yesterday, I was reading a Men's Fitness article on the deadlift grip,

and it said many people use an alternating grip to increase grip

strength but recommended against it because a) it can cause your hips

to rotate and is thus less safe; it puts undue tension on the

palm-up bicep; and c) it can cause the traps to develop unevenly.

Now I'm wondering if my alternating grip is what is causing my lats to

develop unevenly. I'm going to switch to palms-down now and see what

happens.

Interestingly, if this *is* correct, it would seem to suggest that the

best exercise for lat development is a palms-up deadlift!

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Chris