At that time i truely believed i could be an absolute mass monster if i tried. I cant but im glad i tried still 
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You made large strides in that direction
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Pff, you should have measured your wrists before applying effort and all that nonsense.
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Maybe it’s time to make a big push on the curls and drive some new growth!
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Don’t forget, It’s possible to grow your wrists too!
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This can’t be real.
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My wrist size ? I’m afraid it is.
No. Your belief that your wrist size matters.
How did you not pick up on that?
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This entire thread.
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I’m the same height and have similar sized joints. You at least look very lean, which means you’re in a better starting point than I was when I began training. I haven’t measured my arms, but here are pictures for reference. I assume they’re bigger than 13"
(That grey sweatshirt was a women’s extra small, by the way.)
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I assumed wrist size matters because every researcher I’ve come across says it does. But more importantly, it makes sense to me that the size of a bone would influence the amount of muscle that can be built around it. It explains why men can build more muscle than women
You are worrying about minutia when you haven’t even crossed into the territory of building muscle by following a good eating regimen (if you have a fast metabolism, eating has to be a regimen) and workout routine.
Spend a year on “beginner” programs (“Baby Groot” by John Meadows, Basic 5/3/1, abbreviated version of Super Squats etc…) and focus on building good technique & form. Don’t worry about the numbers at all. You will grow if you are eating.
Then you can decide if you want to focus more on pure strength or muscle building and go from there (I recommend “Warlock”).
The most important thing about growing muscle is getting your a$$ to the gym and putting in consistent effort
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It seems obvious that you are set in your belief. I’ll agree with you. You don’t have one chance in the world to build any significant amount of muscle.
Have you tried golf?
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Are you familiar with the hormone testosterone?
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Counter example of a small framed person who has built a ton of muscle and likely has had larger arms than you think is possible for a male:
Now, yes she probably used exogenous hormone enhancing compounds during her career, but still impressive none-the less.
Right now, your biggest limiting factor is not bone size - it’s mindset.
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I’m sure men having ~10x (or more) the amount of androgenic hormones has nothing to do with that either.
And most of those researchers are skinny little poindexter fucks who still believe in scientific determinism. If you want to look better, feel better, and be harder to kill in general - get your ass in the gym and prove those research nerds wrong.
Most researchers say that men will gain an average of 30lbs of muscle as their genetic potential. I have put on at least 50lb, and that was from my early teen years (which were not untrained). It would have been outright stupid for me to have believed after 30lbs I would gain no more, and it’s stupid for you to believe that your wrist size is the determining factor to you getting muscular.
Sure. But it has far less an influence than actually training.
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“For f’s sake, don’t try, Private Pyle! If God wanted you over that wall, He would have miracled your fat ass over by now, wouldn’t He?”
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I do believe that movie is at least 2 generations too old for OP.
The donut scene will forever live on in my head.
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I wish my biceps correlated to my waist size - would have 30" arms by now! Damnit genetic lottery!
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Greatness is immortal
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