"I am a beginner in bodybuilding, my left bicep is smaller than the right and it bothers me because you can see it. How to put the same level as the other. Should I work one arm at a time? "
This asymmetry problem is quite common and often involves the chest and arms. In fact, most people have a stronger or more developed than the other side and weight training will allow you to mitigate these differences over time. Do not focus on what small imbalance is even more may be noticeable only by you.
Moreover, nobody is perfectly symmetrical when you look closely ...
On measures to implement in your training, you should not work one of the two arms or worse to work a little heavier on the side that is weaker. We advise you on your problem symmetry encourage work at the bar rather than dumbbells.
Most people think that the best way to correct the imbalance and asymmetry is to train with dumbbells and think the low side must work to equilibrate with the strong side or the strongest side work least until the low side gets its delay.
But this is not the case, your body adapts to the low rating avoids working more. You will find that you will be slightly askew when force and you vrillerez your torso just enough to give more balance. Or you request other muscles to do the movement. Your proportions remain the same.
A bar on the other hand, can make a slight difference, because your hands are at the same distance which tends to stabilize the body and to better distribute the workload, or at least with better symmetry on your body. Contrary to the general opinion this is the bar that allows the strong side to do less and low side to catch up.
Concretely, in your strength training, you will help the work at the helm for example by replacing the barbell curls by curls to the right bar, the rowing arm by rowing to the bar or the floor pulley low draw.
If it does not work ...
It has happened to all of us to have an arm or leg congested than the other in a bilateral movement (using the two members at a time). This is usually due to an imbalance both muscle (bigger than the other muscle) as a problem of balance of power between the two sides of the body.
If, despite the above advice if the problem persists and deepens, the only possible solution then becomes one-sided. It is to exercise every member separately as a curl of the arm or leg press.
One might think, in addition to better concentration, that unilateral training only allows to use the same load (divided by 2) the bilateral training. But it is forgotten that the body is not made for this duality. Indeed, when we want to execute a movement with two arms and the two legs, resulting in a loss of efficiency due to nerve inhibition centrally (nervous system).
We can then take heavier after adaptation when we practice unilaterally.
Therefore unilateral training is more effective. It allows us to train each member according to his own strength, without having to compensate (with the arm or the strongest thigh) lack of strength by a technical error that could lead to injury.
So instead of trying to make the same number of repetitions or to the same charge, seeking a level equal contraction between the two sides should be your main goal.
If, despite this research equal intensity, the problem persists, then it will consider increasing the intensity of the lower side, having for example, using techniques such as drop sets intensification.
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