Good stuff Oley, I’ll look for your training updates!
Who would’ve thought that this thread could’ve turned into something worthwhile.
Good stuff.
Damn. Oley’s the kind of old fossil dick you’d love to sit in a bar with and listen to him tell stories while sipping on a nice bourbon.
Then maybe a good old fashioned bar brawl would break out.
Could it get any better?
[quote]edgecrusher wrote:
Who would’ve thought that this thread could’ve turned into something worthwhile.
Good stuff.[/quote]
Really! Looks like the trolls got kicked out of their own thread. Thanks Oley! And good work. I hope to be as active when I hit the upper range.
Damn! I’ve already worked out today and its currently 9:30 PM, but I’m ready to go back to the gym and go apeshit! Oley, you just motivated the hell out of me! I wish I lived near you so we could train together!
This has got to be the best website in existence. Only here can meatheads of all ages, colors, creeds, and nationalities come together and feed off one another! It is so awesome to see young guys give an older gent the respect he deserves; but it is equally astounding to see that old gent turn around and tell all the young guys that they just inspired him to reach new heights!
I’m so pumped right now!!
AAAAARRRRRRGHHHHH!!! MUST…LIFT…SOMETHING…IMMEDIATELY!!!
hahahhah fuckin hilarious, mason. funniest shit i’ve read on this site yet. what’s with all the pussy muscle flexing goin on here?
Oley, you should probably start your own thread. This one isn’t doing you enough justice.
Anyhow, back to trolling!
[quote]simon-hecubus wrote:
canada wrote:
Forearms are the most difficult muscle to grow because of genetics.
Bullshit i do no direct forearm work and i have great forearms.
Canada: I can’t tell if you’re being ironic or retarded.
Whoever the First Guy is: Like calves, forearms are one of those things you either got’ em or you don’t.
We’ve all seen guys with great calves or meaty forearms who’ve never even darkened the doorway of a gym…
However, “genetics” are no excuse for not trying your hardest to build your pipes. The other day, I saw a guy with really short attachments on his forearms, but he’d developed them quite well. I was very impressed.[/quote]
Man this thread went hog wild.
I’m being retarded simon-hecubus but that’s not to say i’m lying. 
[quote]canada wrote:
Man this thread went hog wild.
I’m being retarded simon-hecubus but that’s not to say i’m lying. :-)[/quote]
I wasn’t implying you were lying. iN FACT, I don’t doubt you in the least.
Let’s look at the statements:
He said: “Forearms are the most difficult muscle to grow because of genetics.”
You said: “Bullshit i do no direct forearm work and i have great forearms.”
You’re both right and you’re both wrong too.
Forearms ARE difficult tyo grow, IF you have the wrong genetics. As I said: Forearms and Calves, you either got 'em or you don’t.
YOU, on the other hand, are proof of good genetics, since you have great forearms without training them directly.
My brother-in-law is another case in point. He does no exercise at all other than mowing the lawn. He has forearms like Popeye and calves like Tom Platz. It makes me sick 
Later,
Scott
Holy Shite!!! I started training again in March at age 42 hoping to MAYBE get back into shape and get my diabetes and high blood pressure under control before I got too laughably old. Oley has me geeked!! Maybe I’ve got a few years left after all.
As far as forearms go, I think it’s largely like training in general. There are one billion methods, opinions, techniques and routines. There are as many folks swearing by and against all of them. Nothing has changed in that respect in the 13 years since I stopped training the first time. High and low frequency, high and low volume, failue on every set, avoid failure like the plague, isolation for lagging body parts, more heavy compound standbys for lagging bodyparts, cardio stimulates growth, cardio stops growth in it’s tracks etc.
There are huge, strong, qualified people proclaiming the exclusivity of the soundness of any number of combinations of the above and more and just as many claiming disaster when having tried them. Bottom line is, work your body beyond what it’s used to without hurting yourself and it will adapt. That seems to be the real universally constant principle. For foreams, I do one set each way of wrist curls with a homemade roller using the most weight I can handle for 10 - 12 reps at the end of backwork when they’re already pumped from the gripping and pulling.
I do emseated on a bench with my hands hanging over my knees to remove my delts from the equation. I’m sure the deadlifts don’t hurt either. My forarms aren’t 19 inches, but they’re growing. When they stop I’ll try something else. I don’t think everything this mason guy is saying should be discounted out of hand, but he is a self absorbed asshole who’s succedded in starting a thread that got responses.
To be fair, he said himself he’s a dickhead so it seems easiest to just take this thread for what it is. A forum thread and no more. It’s not like he’s in my basement preventing me from using my equipment. Kinda funny and irritating at the same time actually ;-]
–Tiribulus->
I just found this thread and OMG Oley, you are one tough Mother Fucker.
Your kind surly is a vanishing breed.
I rack pull in the mid 500’s, weigh 165 and have stick arms. I guess I should stop being a pussy and do wrist curls instead…
ive stayed away from this thread mostly because i dont give a shit about how my forearms look, and thats probably because they dont look tiny and awkward. anyhow…
if mason33 had said what he really meant, i think everyone minus the 40lb wrist curl teeny weenys wouldve agreed…btw, i think the 140lb kids youre talking about there wouldnt even be using 40lbs there, and if they were, itd be in terrible form- even for a wrist curl. more like 15-20lbs.
but–in attempting to make your valid point, you did say some stupid shit along the way–> for instance…and ill just pick one…
100lbs, yea, if youre deadlifting that, its “pussy” weight. if youre curling a 100lb dumbell with good form, i wouldnt call it pussy weight at all.
i agree with what you MEANT to say, but i think when you wrote your original post you must have been amped up about something, which is cool and all, but what you MEANT to say didnt come out so clear. there was a lot of other BS around it. carry on
[quote]dez6485 wrote:
ive stayed away from this thread mostly because i dont give a shit about how my forearms look, and thats probably because they dont look tiny and awkward. anyhow…
if mason33 had said what he really meant, i think everyone minus the 40lb wrist curl teeny weenys wouldve agreed…btw, i think the 140lb kids youre talking about there wouldnt even be using 40lbs there, and if they were, itd be in terrible form- even for a wrist curl. more like 15-20lbs.
but–in attempting to make your valid point, you did say some stupid shit along the way–> for instance…and ill just pick one…
100lbs, yea, if youre deadlifting that, its “pussy” weight. if youre curling a 100lb dumbell with good form, i wouldnt call it pussy weight at all.
i agree with what you MEANT to say, but i think when you wrote your original post you must have been amped up about something, which is cool and all, but what you MEANT to say didnt come out so clear. there was a lot of other BS around it. carry on [/quote]
Dude, I’m going to copy your post and keep it on hand in case I need any pointers on how to express myself clearly!
Much Thanks,
Scott
P.S. If you haven’t done them, reverse (palms-down) wrist curls with 40 lbs for 8-10 reps in slow, strict form would be pretty good. Prior to wrist surgery, I worked my way up to 62.5 lbs. Now, I’m on my way back up again.
My behind-the-back regular (palms-up) WCs with finger rolls are more in the 130-lb range.
[quote]big_slacker wrote:
I rack pull in the mid 500’s, weigh 165 and have stick arms. I guess I should stop being a pussy and do wrist curls instead…[/quote]
You’re certainly no pussy, but the dynamic work of forearm curls and finger rolls hits your forearms like the static grip work cannot.