DOGGCRAPP said:
I agree totally with Louden on this one. I remember reading in magazines how writers were shocked that Serge Nubret could have 20 inch arms with 7 inch wrists and that he was the exception to the rule. This kind of depressed me at the time 14 years ago when my wrists measured a slight bit below 7 inches and my arms were 13 inches. Im at a 7 and a 1/4 inch wrist now with a 21 and an 1/8 inch arm (tape tight and true and straight up and down) and I also yell bullcrap to that theory!
No kidding...many bodybuilders who look the most impressive have very small joints, anyway, like Flex Wheeler. Some might say, oh, well, Flex's joints hold him back because he looks like a little kid standing next to Nasser, the implication being that a big-boned Flex would have a lot more mass.
That's goofy, though. The reason Flex only competes effectively in the 225 range is because the guy is a half-assed trainer, something exacerbated by the fact that he would take very long layoffs even when he
wasn't injured.
I'm convinced he'd be a lot bigger if he didn't lift like Dillett (his former training partner, interestingly enough) or Vince Taylor. I remember reading once that Dorian, Jamo Nezzar, Flex, and Porter Cottrell were all hanging out, and Jamo tried to ask Flex about how he did BB rows. Flex said he didn't do them; they "got him out of breath." ! Jamo, Dorian, and Porter all nearly pissed themselves laughing, so the tale goes.
Some of the best calves I ever saw belonged to a guy that had girly knees and tiny little ankles. Maybe it was simply the forced perspective, but I kind of doubt it, since he said his calves only measured about 16"!
Those old wrist-ankle formulas might coincidentally yield an accurate result here and there, but they were largely set up for guys lifting in Steve Reeve's heydey. Their goals and methods differed from ours in a number of ways.
) dimensions of your muscle / muscle belly the widthx the length x the depth of say your biceps , determines the max size potential ( not that you may neccassarily reach is ...you probably won't) your muscle cannot be wider or thicker then it is long ....if it were...it would n't be able to contract.
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