You prefer rows over- or under-hand? I do them both ways.
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Height vs arm size
- Thread starter Johndoe
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What's been working for me lately is twice a week too but one day heavy and low reps and the other light weight and high reps till exhaustion. I'm also trying to super set between bi's and tri's so for example I would do barbell curls then pull downs in the same set, or some sort of combination like that and it's been helping. I'm trying to focus a bit more on the triceps and it seems to be giving my arms a bigger look overall but still they're growing really slow.
They get indirect work on chest, back and shoulder day. So one arm day per week is plenty.
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Exactly @rutman ; some guys see better results doing NO direct arm work and concentrating more on the major lifts . I see guys in the gym year after year with the same 16" arms . They do a solid hour of arm work and never change their routines or increase their lifting weights.
Then they say Im genetically gifted to make up for their lazyiness...
You have to have hit the genetic jackpot as you made many gains at that ageExactly @rutman ; some guys see better results doing NO direct arm work and concentrating more on the major lifts . I see guys in the gym year after year with the same 16" arms . They do a solid hour of arm work and never change their routines or increase their lifting weights.
Then they say Im genetically gifted to make up for their lazyiness...
anfee
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6'3" 220lbs 18" cold and flexed
It ain't think, but it's short as hell.
It ain't think, but it's short as hell.
big unit
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6'7" 250lbs - 19" cold & flexed
Most men's arm span is the same or longer than their height, I'm 6' with a 76" AS. You have short "troll" like arms for your height.
And I call BS on your 16.5" arms. They look like 14's...tops!! Let's see a pic with the tape measure around em.
5'9" and currently 18" cold @ 217 lbs and sub 9-10% bodyfat. I'll easily lose 1/2" on my arms when I'm dieting
big unit
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...Thats the Big Unit alright !!
Trying to be big like you OGH!
big unit
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Not in my best shape, but we're never happy now are we? Lol
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Brandaddy
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I'm 5'9 210lbs with 17" arms. For some reason they still don't look any bigger than when they were 13". Ha.
Switcher
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47, years old, 64.5", 210, 19" and a small bit. Getting TRT but haven't touched anything else since I was 19. I knew mine were bigger, didn't realize how big. Then again, perhaps we should measure sleeve length. I am barely 30" in sleeve length, its probably more like 29.75".
Let me stand next to someone taller with arms even close to my size but a lot longer, I am much more impressed, frankly.
Let me stand next to someone taller with arms even close to my size but a lot longer, I am much more impressed, frankly.
johntt44
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I think having long arms make it easier to have a big measurement. A long biceps will make a bigger flexed measurement than a short one. My wingspan is 67" and my arms were 17" as a teen just from chin ups.
Hotrods12
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Im 5'10 just over 17 inch arms, biggest arms ive had were 2 summers ago at 18.5, than I had shoulder surgery, got all depressed lazy and out of shape, only going to the gym here and there, but now Ive been back at it again hardcore on a cut, so hoping to get back to 18 on my bulk in January no biggie tho if I dont, im happy with the shape im getting in now
Switcher
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No offense, nothing makes it easier or harder to be bigger except for genetic disposition.
My observation regarding taller people and longer arms was an opinion on how I see things. If you disagree with that and believe shorter arms with the same size is more impressive, that is ok too.
johntt44
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You're 100% right, it's all genetics. I wasn't disagreeing at all. Not everybody with long arms has it easy, quite the contrary.
