They seem quite happy with their current arm size, and when I chat with them they emphasize how they always superset arms with chest/biceps etc, or simply do high reps to maintain where they are at, improve ‘tone’ etc.
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I’ve always liked having an “arm day”. I’ve never made as much progress putting bis or tris with something else. I guess it’s because I can really focus on them that way and not be fatigued from larger muscle work. Not to mention the fact that having your entire arm filled with blood just feels cool.
[quote]austin_bicep wrote:
Do you take every example someone gives in the literal sense? I’d feel completely sorry for you if that is true. Must be hard to live normally.
14 inch compared to 19, where that even came from I have no idea.
Look at my original post ripped 18-19 inch arms are more impressive than a fatter 20 inch off season arm and they look bigger as well. That’s it.
There are plenty of arms “bigger” than Arnolds in today’s bbing world, not many look better. Jay Cutler has bigger arms than Arnold did, Arnolds look better. That’s my point, size is not everything. [/quote]
Lol. Living just fine thank you
Ya I agree ripped 18-19 arms are more impressive than 20 inch arms soft. But 18-19 inch arms ARE big respectable arms. Arnold’s arms look batter than Cutlers, and while they may be smaller, he had HUGE arms.
My point is the only people saying they are more concerned about shape and dont measure their arms anymore (You, Stu, Akuma) are people that have already built respectable sized arms already and are pleased with their size. Im not sure someone with 14 inch arms (ya throwing that out there again lol) would get to 18 if theye were happy with their size already and only cared about shape/leanness.
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I agree with you, I sometimes forget my target audience and assume everyone is at my level or beyond when I make posts.
So I still stand by my point, but definitely those with tiny arms should worry about gaining weight and growing there arms many inches before chiseling away.
[quote]bugeishaAD wrote:
Got the rest of my life to get them as big as humanly possible.[/quote]
I figure that’s my solution too, aim for 20+ and somewhere in there I’ll get a peak out of them ;)[/quote]
Ya know if you don’t have a peak now, you probably won’t ever grow one…Leaness can help make the peak more apparent, but it mainly has to do with genetics and insertion points.
However, you get your arm fuggin huge, they’ll look good peak or no peak…
Not sure what everyone is arguing about here…size, shape, leanness, they all matter. But at the end of the day it’s all subjective anyway. Instead we should be discussing a lot of the progress that people in this thread have made, lots of good work.
[quote]bugeishaAD wrote:
Lol cueball, you got half an inch on me. It’s weird, because I’m right handed but my left arm is bigger by about a quarter inch.
Left arm = 18, right arm = 17.75
I suffer from very poor arm genetics. Flat tris, bis that insert hi AND no peak. Got the rest of my life to get them as big as humanly possible.[/quote]
Man, I have the same issue with my right arm. It’s .25" smaller than my left (I’m left handed). Mostly due to uneven tri development. I would imagine a lot of guys have the same thing. I’m sure though your situation with your dominant being smaller isn’t as common.
How many of you guys have a similar issue with one arm being bigger than the other?
Man, I have the same issue with my right arm. It’s .25" smaller than my left (I’m left handed). Mostly due to uneven tri development. I would imagine a lot of guys have the same thing. I’m sure though your situation with your dominant being smaller isn’t as common.
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Same here. I’m right handed, right arm is bigger. I think I have a small issue with my left shoulder that needs attention. It nags at me from time to time and when I do 1 arm shoulder presses, my right arm is at least 10 lbs stronger. On db preacher curls, strength is about equal which leads me to believe it’s a shoulder issue.
[quote]fd24 wrote:
Agreed, but posting pictures of mcdonalds arms and saying 14inch arms are impressive was a bit overboard[/quote]
LOL! How did the people here let that one slide?
Just a note, but if you really think a big weight lifter with off season levels of body fat with 20" arms looks LESS impressive than some really ripped guy with 14" arms, you likely are on the wrong website.
Yes, leaner arms generally look better, but this is bodybuilding so no one is cheering on some small guy with no muscle just because he got really lean.
Also, to one point made above, it often takes getting that softer 20" arm so you can have really lean 19" arms. Some of these comments come across like some believe that isn’t the case.
[quote]angus_beef wrote:
However i’m comparing the appearance, not the journey. 14 inches skin and bones is as impressive as 19 inches adipose.[/quote]
Wow, 14 inch skin and bone arms are clearly more impressive than 19 inch arms…
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It looks like this guy has never trained his tricep looking at his arm…
[quote]fd24 wrote:
Agreed, but posting pictures of mcdonalds arms and saying 14inch arms are impressive was a bit overboard[/quote]
LOL! How did the people here let that one slide?
Just a note, but if you really think a big weight lifter with off season levels of body fat with 20" arms looks LESS impressive than some really ripped guy with 14" arms, you likely are on the wrong website.
Yes, leaner arms generally look better, but this is bodybuilding so no one is cheering on some small guy with no muscle just because he got really lean.
Also, to one point made above, it often takes getting that softer 20" arm so you can have really lean 19" arms. Some of these comments come across like some believe that isn’t the case.[/quote]
I agree. The only reason I posted a picture of the McDonald’s arm was because there is a portion of people, who call themselves BBers, who essentially gorge themselves while not working hard in the gym and are so proud of their huge arm (and sometimes chest) measurements.
When in reality, they are just fat. Some people get too absorbed with the tape measure when they should take a glance in the mirror every once in a while. I have seen fat guys with fat arms with no discernible muscle bragging about their 20 inch guns.
Like I said, it’s all relative on both ends of the spectrum. a 14 inch arm isn’t impressive over 5’4" and a 20 inch arm isn’t impressive over 40% body fat. No one statistic gives you the whole picture. And there are deluded people on both ends of the spectrum.
