15.5 Inch Arms?

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[quote]Professor X wrote:
Christian Thibaudeau wrote:
mr popular wrote:
You’re all idiots.

A person doesn’t just leap from 14.5 to 18 inches. It’s perfectly fair to have an “initial goal” of gaining an inch. The OP never said he plans to STOP there.

Agreed. Jim Wendler, after overhead pressing 300lbs for the first time, was asked ‘‘what’s your next goal?’’.

To which he answered ‘‘305’’.

There are no ‘‘small goals’’ the key is progression and setting new goals once you reach the ones you had.

That weight goal makes a hell of a lot more sense than measuring your arms on a regular basis.

Your arms may even go DOWN in measurement based on too many factors (including hydration) making that unreliable outside of very LONG TERM measurements.

At the most, I would recommend people take measurements no more than once a year.

The rest of the time, the mirror, your body weight and your strength levels should be your guiding force.[/quote]

But knowing that your measurements may vary, I don’t see any problem with measuring them. I guess some people may get discouraged and change things too quickly, but I’ll sometimes measure when they look particularly big or particularly small, no harm done.

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[quote]LankyMofo wrote:
Professor X wrote:
Christian Thibaudeau wrote:
mr popular wrote:
You’re all idiots.

A person doesn’t just leap from 14.5 to 18 inches. It’s perfectly fair to have an “initial goal” of gaining an inch. The OP never said he plans to STOP there.

Agreed. Jim Wendler, after overhead pressing 300lbs for the first time, was asked ‘‘what’s your next goal?’’.

To which he answered ‘‘305’’.

There are no ‘‘small goals’’ the key is progression and setting new goals once you reach the ones you had.

That weight goal makes a hell of a lot more sense than measuring your arms on a regular basis.

Your arms may even go DOWN in measurement based on too many factors (including hydration) making that unreliable outside of very LONG TERM measurements.

At the most, I would recommend people take measurements no more than once a year.

The rest of the time, the mirror, your body weight and your strength levels should be your guiding force.

But knowing that your measurements may vary, I don’t see any problem with measuring them. I guess some people may get discouraged and change things too quickly, but I’ll sometimes measure when they look particularly big or particularly small, no harm done.[/quote]

There’s a big difference between me measuring them now when I have a much better understanding of my overall potential after several years of training than when I was first starting and was unsure where my final goal was or if I could easily get there.

Many of these newbs are changing entire routines around every couple of weeks because they don’t understand how slow the overall growth process is. Someone like that will do themselves a disservice worrying about specific measurements constantly.

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I measure mine fairly routinely, at least once a week, I find it fascinating to see how my body reacts to training and how it grows over time.

There seems to be a roughly inverse proportion to training age being inversely proportional to growth, maybe even an inverse logarithmic proportion.

My beginner gains were about 4x the rate of my post-beginner stage, I just hope I don’t go through another inverse logarithmic decrease, it’ll take forever to put another inch on my arms.

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[quote]50_Caliber wrote:
I measure mine fairly routinely, at least once a week, I find it fascinating to see how my body reacts to training and how it grows over time.

There seems to be a roughly inverse proportion to training age being inversely proportional to growth, maybe even an inverse logarithmic proportion.

My beginner gains were about 4x the rate of my post-beginner stage, I just hope I don’t go through another inverse logarithmic decrease, it’ll take forever to put another inch on my arms.[/quote]

Well, have you managed to put 30-40 lbs on your curl working weight with decent form and 100-150 lbs on your CGP working weight lately?

No?

Surprising that your arms didn’t grow then, huh ? :wink:

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I’ve went from 12.5" arms to my current 15 1/4".

But yes, measurements are interesting, but progression is paramount. :slight_smile:

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[quote]50_Caliber wrote:
I’ve went from 12.5" arms to my current 15 1/4".
[/quote] Yeah, I started with arms below 12 at 5’10… True, the way to, say, 15-16 inches is easy (pretty much all your beginner gains), but then you gotta get your training and diet right if you want to keep making decent progress… For me, that meant eating a whole lot more protein vs. my old “carb only” diet etc :wink:
Fortunately, my routine was already set up well enough for fairly constant strength progress. My diet just didn’t allow for it at first.[quote]
But yes, mesaurements are interesting, but progression is paramount. :)[/quote]

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[quote]50_Caliber wrote:
I’ve went from 12.5" arms to my current 15 1/4".

But yes, mesaurements are interesting, but progression is paramount. :)[/quote]

You seem to be missing the point. 15" arms never yused to mean someone was “built”. If anything, it meant you were still a beginner. It is ONLY recently that suddenly lesser progress is being posted as significant…and that is mostly because most of these guys will never see more than that for several reasons listed in the past.

For you to move BEYOND that is going to take not only some recording of a measurement, but the belief that you can reach a much higher goal. Good luck on moving to the next stage when you are focused this intently on the smallest details.

Put the tape measure away for two years.

Or

Continue as you have and keep posting about “inverse proportions” as you make minimal progress over the next few years.

You won’t be adding INCHES to your arms unless your muscular body weight is drastically increasing.

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I’ve given this issue some hard thought, and I have come to the conclusion that 15.5 inches is a very admirable goal…

for your forearms.

Well, at least it is for me. For now. When (if) my forearms are 15.5", it’ll probably seem small.

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Oh yeah, 15 1/4" isn’t impressive at all, it’s just where I’m at at the moment.

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Did you have to be from England? People take the piss as it is!!

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lol at the fact this thread has had the most views!

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[quote]Trenchant wrote:
SSC wrote:
Way to aim high.

I see what you did there, haha[/quote]

this is my 4th or 5th time glancing at this ridiculous thread…and I JUST saw what he did there.

I lose worst of all.

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[quote]Professor X wrote:
50_Caliber wrote:
I’ve went from 12.5" arms to my current 15 1/4".

But yes, mesaurements are interesting, but progression is paramount. :slight_smile:

You seem to be missing the point. 15" arms never yused to mean someone was “built”. If anything, it meant you were still a beginner. It is ONLY recently that suddenly lesser progress is being posted as significant…and that is mostly because most of these guys will never see more than that for several reasons listed in the past.

For you to move BEYOND that is going to take not only some recording of a measurement, but the belief that you can reach a much higher goal. Good luck on moving to the next stage when you are focused this intently on the smallest details.

Put the tape measure away for two years.

Or

Continue as you have and keep posting about “inverse proportions” as you make minimal progress over the next few years.

You won’t be adding INCHES to your arms unless your muscular body weight is drastically increasing.[/quote]

i can agree with everything your saying except you seem to be under the impression that a cold 15 inch arm is average for a adult male who doesn’t weight train. that is just completely untrue.

back in high school i did a project. i went into a subway station with my friends and we took the arm measurements of non obese males ( presumably under 20% bf) between the ages of 18-45. in total we took 1,000 samples. the average was 12.75 inch’s. only a hand full of them had over 15 inch arms. the only question we asked outside of age was if they did weight training on a regular basis. if they did they were not eligible. from the info we gathered having cold 15 inch arms prior to any regular training puts you in the top 5% of non obese males.

now ill wait for the horde of people who will claim to have had cold 15 inch arms while not being overweight prior to having trained.

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I’ll tell you what is really freaky, people with 16 inch arms and 12-13 inch thick necks. Weird.

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Why is this trainwreck of a thread still going?

Just let it die people. Please.

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[quote]Nikiforos wrote:
I’ll tell you what is really freaky, people with 16 inch arms and 12-13 inch thick necks. Weird.[/quote]

At a university dinning hall I once saw a kid who was ~5’8" with 17-18" arms and I bet that guy didn’t weight 150 soaking wet. He looked like you took a regular scrawny college kid and gave him 6 or 7 inches on his arms-not synthol. It was the most ridiculous thing I have even seen.

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[quote]brownab wrote:
Nikiforos wrote:
I’ll tell you what is really freaky, people with 16 inch arms and 12-13 inch thick necks. Weird.

At a university dinning hall I once saw a kid who was ~5’8" with 17-18" arms and I bet that guy didn’t weight 150 soaking wet. He looked like you took a regular scrawny college kid and gave him 6 or 7 inches on his arms-not synthol. It was the most ridiculous thing I have even seen. [/quote]

lol - must have looked like huge arms though.

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man i have like 14.6 inch arms and ive been training for like 9 months that’s nothing pure beginner gains which i hope will go on till 20 inches

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Guys, this is a troll. His name is AimHigh. Come on.