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I wondering if anyone out there is in the same boat as I am. Basically, most people my height 5'8" are built like Tanks. There short, stocky, short but thick arms/forearms, etc. These people are usually short but not small. Sherk, Penn etc.

The problem is I am not like this. I'm short but there are people out there such as friends, random people at the mall who are shorter but they Dwarf me. It's frustrating because I'm not small but I'm small lol. I have really short/skinny forearms which hinders any gains. Seriously, my forearms/wrists are still the same size when I was in middle school.

Will I ever see improvements in strength/size or will I remain the same forever? I feel like other parts grow biceps, shoulders, chest but then I just have these little kid forearms.

Any workout suggestions? Anyone ever get past this? Thanks
 
A) Beeing big boned is a myth, no such thing.
B) eat like a horse and do heavy comound lifts.

And do i understand you correctly if you say that the solution is bigger forearms? not sure if i understand?
 
I have a really small bone structure and am probably more well suited to endurance sports. My natural weight would probably be about 135 at 5'10 if I didn't lift weights, but I'm about 160 and going up because I keep at it. You gotta work with what you've got and find what works for you. You sound young, so your bones still might thicken up at bit.
 
To the guy above, I don't know if he said anything about "big boned," but people have different sized frames. People need different sized watches and rings most often because they have different sized frames, not because they have jacked out wrist or finger muscles.
 
dinpappa said:
A) Beeing big boned is a myth, no such thing.
B) eat like a horse and do heavy comound lifts.

And do i understand you correctly if you say that the solution is bigger forearms? not sure if i understand?
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Could you elaborate on A please
 
I myself went from 135 lbs to 213 lbs by no longer "thinking i ate much" but actually ate much! Now im back down to 180 and alot stronger than i was at 213. But i know i can get back up there if i want, but size does not equal strength i found out, so im happier at around 180lbs.

Point beeing, thinking your bones somehow set the limitations for you is just a bad excuse, and as i pointet out "big boned" is a myth. So raid the fridge hard, hit the weights hard and forget words like "cut, ripped, toned, firmed" and BS. And i mean not just for a day, week or month, it took me 2 years!
 
tinker_190 said:
Could you elaborate on A please
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I see that it might not be what he was talking about, but anyways. Yes people come in all lengths and proportions (due to genetics) but the adult skeleton is not that much variety in weight. So when fat people blame it on their "big bones" thats just BS. Its all the fat hanging around it, not the skeleton itself. But dont want to go offtopic so :)
 
Im "small boned" as in slim shoulders, waist, hips ect. 90% ppl have wider shoulders than i do.

It sucks. To solve this, i eat a lot and lift a lot.
 
if you want bigger forearms, just look at dinpappa's avatar.

:icon_chee
 
not the size of the dog in the fight...it's the size of the fight in the dog
 
im 5'8"-9, 140lbs. im avg height but smaller then most, thats just my body frame mixed prob with eating well. who cares about getting bigger, just stay at your natural weight and work on becoming stronger, faster, greater endurance at your natural weight. most of the guys who are built like tanks could lose a ton of weight and arent anywhere near whats natural. they may have strength but thats all they have, they lost speed,endurance,mobility,flexibility,agility. i could run circles around all those guys in any sport.
 
All that really matters is your genital size...

Some Freak may have larger muscles than you but if you have a larger "PENIS" that still makes you more of a man...

I think most of those dudes trying to make their muscles bigger are trying to compensate for their tiny "Penis"

If I have a 6 inch Penis with small muscles and the dude with big muscles has a 3 inch penis.... well I am the bigger man no matter how buff the dude gets !!!

Big Penis > Big Muscles !!!
 
Friulan said:
To the guy above, I don't know if he said anything about "big boned," but people have different sized frames. People need different sized watches and rings most often because they have different sized frames, not because they have jacked out wrist or finger muscles.
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I used to be a skinny bastard and thought I was small boned and was okay with it. I now walk around 60-70 lbs heavier and my wrists went from being 7" to 9".

No one calls me thin boned anymore.
 
Just for a little inspiration, there have been many of the strongest and largest muscular guys around with smaller bone structures. You have to work with you were given, so don't let your genetics become a mental block.

The reclusive and now deceased Muscle Beach legend Chuck Ahrens was at one time of the the strongest ever in pressing movements. Credible sources such as Steve Merjanian witnessed Chuck shoulder pressing with one arm 300 pounds on a short, bent straight bar around 1960. Some other feats that come to mind were 375 in the tricep curl. He was said to not have a large bone structure, and had small, almost delicate looking hands:

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While there is something as big boned, it is rare so most fat people are not big boned. TS you may think you are eating alot but you are not. I was a skinny framed 125lb 5'6" guy in high school. I thought I was eating alot and lifting hard but I was eating maybe 1500 calories and doing a bodybuilding style lifting for wrestling. In college I started compound lifts and eating 2500 calories and went to a solid 150. So it's definitely possible for you to get bigger, even while maintaining your speed and flexibility.
 
Time + Effort + food + sleep = bigger & stronger, regardless of skeletal structure.

Additionally, bones aren't static things. They change as a response to being physically stressed. They become denser, and thicker / rougher where muscles attach.

uncookedpork said:
Some other feats that come to mind were 375 in the tricep curl.
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Which is especially impressive considering that a "tricep curl" is an impossible movement, or at the vary least, requires dislocating the elbow.
 
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