Anyone else plagued with skinny forearms and wrists?...

[D1on]

Have you managed to build them up?
I'm quite well built but have skinny forearms, beginning to be quite self conscious about it..

[2 GKC]

You worry too much. No one will either notice or care

[anonymous-user]

Do you think a T Rex ever felt self conscious about his skinny forearms? Of course not!

[D1on]

BlackWidow13 said:

Do you think a T Rex ever felt self conscious about his skinny forearms? Of course not!

Thats a good analogy, made me chuckle

[smashy]

No one will care as is stated unless its 6am am in a cafe and your surrounded by scaffolders and they will truly be disgusted with you


Being serious sadly it is what it is back in the day all these mags and courses promised me "oak tree legs" well 25 years of training I must have been sent the wrong course I was still a proud owner of "pelican legs" mind you I could squat 250x8 which wasnt bad I guess. Genes are genes

Edited by smashy on Thursday 27th August 20:51

[jjaack]

Ankles and wrists, I would like a nice watch but the trend is big watches they look ridiculous on me and my ankles are stupidly thin I cycle so my thighs and calfs are good but proportionally odd as legs go, sparrows ankles i have damn it.

[Hoofy]

Pull up bar - just hang off one until you cry for your mum, then hold on for another 2 hours. Everyday.

My forearms were as big as my upper arms when I went climbing 3 times a week. They were rock hard after every climbing session.

[SlimJim16v]

Hoofy said:

Pull up bar - just hang off one until you cry for your mum, then hold on for another 2 hours. Everyday.

Yes, especially if you use those rubber grips that fit over the bars and make it 2" - 3" thick.

[Hoofy]

SlimJim16v said:

Hoofy said:

Pull up bar - just hang off one until you cry for your mum, then hold on for another 2 hours. Everyday.

Yes, especially if you use those rubber grips that fit over the bars and make it 2" - 3" thick.

Or hang off your fingertips rather than doing full grip?

[TwistingMyMelon]

My wrists are tiny , never really bothered me, they are quite strong and tough , but not big at all

[mcelliott]

Genetics

[imperium]

I had quite slim forearms until I got a job lifting heavy rolls of materials for printing onto.

It is genetic but of course can definitely be improved with weight lifting exercises.

[citizensm1th]

Get a twelve inch leght of broom handle and rap some string around it about a four foot length will do and tie a pound or two of weight to the end of the string.

Then at arms length raise and lower the weight by rolling and unrolling the string until you can't do it any more repeat until you look like popeye

[popeyewhite]

Hoofy said:

SlimJim16v said:

Hoofy said:

Pull up bar - just hang off one until you cry for your mum, then hold on for another 2 hours. Everyday.

Yes, especially if you use those rubber grips that fit over the bars and make it 2" - 3" thick.

Or hang off your fingertips rather than doing full grip?

Some of those fingertip holds climbers use are good for this.

ETA just realised HOOFY's already mentioned climbing.

Edited by popeyewhite on Friday 28th August 23:12

[Sophisticated Sarah]

FatGrips on dumbbells do the job. The burn is incredible!

[Fishlegs]

mcelliott said:

Genetics

Exactly. As with so many health/fitness matters, the answer is to choose better parents.

[VR99]

Fishlegs said:

mcelliott said:

Genetics

Exactly. As with so many health/fitness matters, the answer is to choose better parents.

+3
Everyones unique genes will determine how each muscle group develops irrespective of how much work you put in the gym.
I think it's simply a case of doing extra exercises to target those muscles but have to ask yourself if it's really worth it.....

[Sophisticated Sarah]

VR99 said:

Fishlegs said:

mcelliott said:

Genetics

Exactly. As with so many health/fitness matters, the answer is to choose better parents.

+3
Everyones unique genes will determine how each muscle group develops irrespective of how much work you put in the gym.
I think it's simply a case of doing extra exercises to target those muscles but have to ask yourself if it's really worth it.....

Sometimes you can overcome stty genetics, other times it’s an impossibility. Good friend of mine is of African heritage and just cannot build his calves. Thighs will burst jeans, calves look like they belong on a ten year old boy

[didelydoo]

Genetics determine the shape of the muscle, and the degree it responds. But it’s a cop out to think you can make the most of yours.

Look at before and after a of Dorian Yates, or Shawn Rhoden, or Kevin Levrone. To look at, you’d say crap genetics. (I’m aware they juice- but that grows whats there)

I was skinny, not I’m not. I train forearms, and now they’re decent, before they were sticks.

You want bigger forearms- train them hard and smart. Same with any muscle. They might not end up huge- but I guarantee they’ll be bigger and better- just takes a lot of time, consistency and effort

[Hoofy]

popeyewhite said:

Hoofy said:

SlimJim16v said:

Hoofy said:

Pull up bar - just hang off one until you cry for your mum, then hold on for another 2 hours. Everyday.

Yes, especially if you use those rubber grips that fit over the bars and make it 2" - 3" thick.

Or hang off your fingertips rather than doing full grip?

Some of those fingertip holds climbers use are good for this.

ETA just realised HOOFY's already mentioned climbing.

Edited by popeyewhite on Friday 28th August 23:12

I used to regularly train by having a fingerboard attached via rope to a barbell with 30kg of weights on it and just hold for as long as I could.