When I first started lifting seriously I was 5’8" and weighed 170 at 14% bodyfat with 16" arms.I was 14 at the time but I had been doing curls and tricep work since age 12.
big arms look stupid without big shoulders, traps and forearms. keep that in mind as you add 1.5" specifically to your upper arms.
How is the concept so hard to understand… Adding size to your arms/legs/chest/back/shoulders is about adding muscle mass, which means adding weight to your body.
The way you make your muscles bigger is by adding mass to them… Mass is weight. If YOU have 15 inch arms at 175,you will not gain an inch of muscle on your arms and still weigh 175… Not to mention you should be adding mass over your entire body.
Just because some other guy has 16.5 inch arms at 180 doesnt mean you will… Everyone is different. I had 13 inch arms at 155, and now they are about 15 inches at 180. I suspect at a lean 195 or so they will be 16 inches…and a lean 210 they will be 16.5 - 17 inches.
The only way to add size to your arms is to train them and eat to gain weight.
I am 145lbs and I have 15.5 inch arms pumped. I am only 5’6.
I think Poliquin’s argument was more aimed at people with 19’ arms who said there arms were 22’
When but when he says Arnold’s arms were 19’ I still think they look bigger than that. Maybe it’s because his Bicep is proportionally large and gives the illusion of him having even bigger arms.
You either have big arms or you don’t. Are you curling 135lbs without an insane amount of cheat? Then you’ve probably got large arms. Can you bench 500lbs? Your arms are massive.
I assume you guys are talking flexed right?
Straight arm or elbow bent?
Curious. Thanks
the problem with measurements on the internet is that people lie about 2 thing (intentional or not). they fuck up with the tape, or just lie about it, and then they lie about how fat they are
i know a lot of fat guys that tell me they have 20 inch arms, lol. yeah, and a 50 inch waist asshole
One name for you: Andreas Wecker
Jeez. Everyone takes Poliquin so literally. He has trained and measured thousands of people over time. He is claiming, on average, one inch of arm circumference correlates with 15lbs of lean body mass. In addition, he is claiming that people make better progress when their bodies are in proportion.
Citing counter-examples of people who spend a decade or more training in an unbalanced fashion (e.g., kayakers and gymnasts with no legs, olympic lifters with huge legs and skinny arms) does not change the general pattern.
Of course there are exceptions. Odds are you are not one of those exceptions. And professional bodybuilders who are concerned with symmetry are definitely not those exceptions, and that was who he was talking about!
[quote]evansmi wrote:
I have arms.[/quote]
Steroids.
[quote]Lonnie123 wrote:
The only way to add size to your arms is to train them and eat to gain weight.[/quote]
Word. ‘Curling/extending a lot and ONLY getting big arms’ sounds like it could work in theory, but you have to eat some caloric surplus to grow anything. You just don’t see otherwise small guys with big upper arms.
I weight 176 and i have 15 inch arms but i am only 5’7". Its also all triceps, my bicepts kind of suck. One of my weaker points. Then again i do direct arm work maybe once a month.
[quote]jakshafter wrote:
I weight 176 and i have 15 inch arms but i am only 5’7". Its also all triceps, my bicepts kind of suck. One of my weaker points. Then again i do direct arm work maybe once a month.[/quote]
If you are fairly lean that sounds about right… What I am saying, and Poliququin and everyone else I have ever heard talk about it, is that you will not gain an inch on your arm(muscular inch) and still weigh 176. You will most likely weigh about 190 if you keep the same amount of leanness.
There is a reason the guys in the O weigh 250-280… Because size=weight. You dont see anyone weighing 175 pounds that has huge muscles.
[quote]stuward wrote:
It depends on their height. For a short person it’s quite possible, for a tall person, not possible at all.[/quote]
I don’t think this is necessarily true. Even though I’m not ‘tall’, at 5’10 I fit easily within the profile (15.5 @ 169 lb body weight). I’m not a freak or genetically gifted in this department either nor do I even do direct arm training.
[quote]Lonnie123 wrote:
jakshafter wrote:
I weight 176 and i have 15 inch arms but i am only 5’7". Its also all triceps, my bicepts kind of suck. One of my weaker points. Then again i do direct arm work maybe once a month.
If you are fairly lean that sounds about right… What I am saying, and Poliququin and everyone else I have ever heard talk about it, is that you will not gain an inch on your arm(muscular inch) and still weigh 176. You will most likely weigh about 190 if you keep the same amount of leanness.
There is a reason the guys in the O weigh 250-280… Because size=weight. You dont see anyone weighing 175 pounds that has huge muscles.[/quote]
I havent’ read the Poliquin article in a while but didn’t he even say him self that it was a general rule? It seems just common sense to if you want to get bigger…then get bigger.
[quote]tom63 wrote:
Hanley wrote:
Wait wait, hold up. Are we talking about length or girth??? :s
For me it’s both, hahahaha!
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But we need to know if you’re measuring from armpit to elbow, or armpit to wrist!
[quote]GripAndRip wrote:
Is it possible to have 15" arms at 165-175lbs? [/quote]
Yes, of course it’s possible. There, that was easy.
The main problem is that most people dont know that size=weight, and weight=food intake. You cant just make your muscles bigger. Thats why guys in the O weigh what they do vs. guys in the amateur ranks… Muscle mass = weight.
This is perpetuated, in my opinion, by articles like the bigger arms challenge… While the techniques might work and food intake is recommended in the article, it is kind of implied that the training itself makes the arms bigger, and not the combination of training and eating for weight increase. Again, I know that food intake is stressed in the article, but when the crux of the article is do these 3 exercises to get bigger arms, the untrained eye simply does not put 2 and 2 together.
both numbers are so small, why does it even matter? man…it doesnt even sound that out of proportion!
If anyone’s ever worked construction…you’ll notice the guy so tan he looks black, with arms thicker than his head, and a skinny wiry body. Who chews tobacco and curses too much.