[quote]Bill Roberts wrote:
Yes, wrist is at the smaller diameter point as you describe.
I think it’s also muscles and tendons that add thickness from training.
What I would recommend with this calculator, if wanting to use it in the first place, is not to use true wrist size but instead input whatever wrist size gives correct (when in lean condition) hip measurement.
The reason is that I do not believe that people, especially women, instinctively evaluate a physique by comparing with the wrist. That’s a subtle point. It is well established though that waist/hip ratio is a highly critical factor in instinctive attractiveness, and I would think chest/hip ratio (as well as chest/waist ratio) is also critical. And then the arms, legs, and neck should be in good proportion to that. Really head size ought to match too but there is nothing one can do about that. (A large head makes the body look smaller than it is.)
If the wrists are half an inch different from that figure, is the eye really going to think that that makes things wrong or that the chest needs to differ by three inches on account of that?
So while the chest/waist/hips/neck/thighs/calves/arms ratios are I think aesthetic, if also weight proportionate for height, the wrist value is just nonsensical to base things off of.
If anything, a thicker wrist makes one look bigger and stronger, not relatively weaker.
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so i find the proper wrist size that hits my hips, k.