{"id":491422,"date":"2026-06-23T11:20:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T11:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/491422\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T11:20:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T11:20:18","slug":"man-only-works-out-one-side-of-his-body-for-100-days-to-see-insane-impact-it-makes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/491422\/","title":{"rendered":"Man only works out one side of his body for 100 days to see insane impact it makes"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man decided to work out only one side of his body in a bid to see just what impact it would have on him.<\/p>\n

Many of us want to get fit, but for the vast majority of people this would probably be on our entire bodies, not just one half of them.<\/p>\n

But for YouTuber James Chewbonic<\/a>, who said that he never been much of a gym goer<\/a> before, he decided to take a slightly different approach to working out.<\/p>\n

James wanted to try and only work out one half of his body, and to be clear no, we’re not just talking about skipping leg day here.<\/p>\n

This is still dividing the body in half, but lengthways rather than through the waist, so James would only be getting buff<\/a> on one side, while the other remained unaffected, at least, that was the theory.<\/p>\n

In the video<\/a> posted to his YouTube<\/a> channel, he explained that for 100 days he would only be training the left side of his body to see just how much of a difference it would make.<\/p>\n

\"JamesJames before his experiment (Youtube\/James Chewbonic)<\/p>\n

Would the result be negligible, or would he end up looking like some human fiddler crab?<\/p>\n

James did this by tailoring exercises which could be focussed on one side of his body, such as a bicep curl, pistol squat, dumbbell chest press, and a side plank.<\/p>\n

In a weird twist, James also tried to eat ‘half healthy’ by having half of his food and drink<\/a> being keyed towards gains, and the other half being less good for your health<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Asked how he made sure it was only going to one side of his body, he replied: “That’s a great question … the answer is I’m not.”<\/p>\n

So how did it work out, or half work out, in the end?<\/p>\n

After weeks of working out, he looked in the mirror and noticed that aesthetically, there didn’t seem to be that much difference between one side and the other.<\/p>\n

\"JamesJames towards the end of his experiment (Youtube\/James Chewbonic)<\/p>\n

But what about the strength?<\/p>\n

To test this, James compared holding a side plank on his weak side and his strong side.<\/p>\n

On his weak side, he managed to hold the plank for one minute and 14 seconds.<\/p>\n

But on the side where he’d been working out it was a different story entirely, with James managing to go for four minutes. <\/p>\n

“That was one of my original goals at the start of this video ticked off,” he said, “but I think it’s fair to say that even if there’s not much difference in the way my abs look, there is so much difference in the strength of them.”<\/p>\n

He concluded: “I have proven that if you work out half your body, then half your body gets stronger, what a revelation.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man decided to work out only one side of his body in a bid to see just…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[565,134,111,139,69,1252,4139],"class_list":["post-491422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-fitness","tag-health","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-uk-news","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}