Biceps greater than 1" per 10 lbs?

[Casey Szparaga]

No way Greg has 20 inch arms at 175 or less. Not being argumentative, just been in a gym all my life and know better.

[Jeremy Plaster]

I am unsure about that 20 inches.. I don't know his measurments.. They just seem bigger than mine and I know mine are a little over 17 inches. Of course even 17.5 to 18.5 isa HUGE difference in the way they look to the eye.

[Casey Szparaga]

Jeremy,
I know you're a bad man, and so was Greg.
Just a thought, what do you weigh now, and how big were your arms when you were lighter. I bet at least and inch or two smaller.
Greg did have huge arms for 176, but I bet if you're 180 or so, yours are about the same at 17....17 1/2.

If Greg's are really that big, I'd be wrong and sorry. Shocked, but wrong.

Hope to meet you soon.

Casey

[Jeremy Plaster]

You may be right Casey. I have not seen Greg in many years and I was 143 at the time, so maybe they just looked alot larger to me at the time. I think I MIGHT have had 15 inch arms then on a real good day. So I have at least gained 2 1/2 inches since then and I am currently walking around between 178 and 182.

[Jeremy Plaster]

Likewise Maybe we will meet up in Orlando if you are going to be there?

And I am not at all trying to prove he had arms that size..you may very well be right. You made a good point bringing up my being alot lighter then.

[Casey Szparaga]

No sweat buddy. See ya soon.

[Jeremy Plaster]

Looking forward to it Casey! Take care.

[Justin Kaufman]

I would say that Keith Powers would be close to that at his weight, his arms look as big or bigger and he normally weighs 20 lbs less than me!!

[Rob Vigeant Jr.]

just did some crazy curl workout.......................150 lb dbs for sets of 21s...............nice and strict with my back against a wall.............................a little light but I was going for a pump, plus what do you expect after 15 sets.
Anyhow, I just got the official measurement, pumped of course................23 5/8ths...BAM!!!

[Mike Moeller]

Feb 26, 2009 21:15:53 GMT -5 Jeremy Plaster said:

You may be right Casey. I have not seen Greg in many years and I was 143 at the time, so maybe they just looked alot larger to me at the time. I think I MIGHT have had 15 inch arms then on a real good day. So I have at least gained 2 1/2 inches since then and I am currently walking around between 178 and 182.

J if you take off that green bay hat you could lose some dead weight man! at least 5 pounds. (go raiders) ;D

[Mike Moeller]

I just measured my bicep with a twizzlers licorice stick......yeah pretty sad I know. thats my game plan though to look deceptively weak and feable. would be interested to see some forearm sizes though from people.

[Shawn Lattimer]

This thread is funny. I'm really having fun laughing with Rob's posts...........


Let me see---My upper arm is somewhere around 22 cold, at 380 pounds. So I am at about 6 tenths of an inch per 10 pounds. LOL.

Forearm is about 18". It has grown about 1" in 4 months of arm wrestling training.

I do know some lighter guys who train a lot like bodybuilders who have very large arms at lighter weights. One guy is 165 pounds with 18" arms. Skinny little stick legs, but big arms. I know another guy who lifts at 148 and has 16" arms. Both are freaks of nature.

Past a certain bodyweight (I'm guessing 200-ish), it becomes very difficult to put on that kind of size without a lot of drugs to aid the muscle growth.

[John Wilson]

17 inch arms are big on anyone. A 17 inch forearm puts you in the popeye category to lay folk. To the average person both of these are way beyond normal.

16 inch arms on a guy less than 170 lbs is an attention getter for sure.

No, none of these are 'massive' by bodybuilding standards but we often forget that armwrestlers are freaks. Go back to the days before you were a part of this sport. Remember your first impression at your first tournament? I remember thinking that the guys I saw were odd shaped as hell. They didn't quite look like typical bodybuilders (most of them) but they were obviously muscular freaks. Arms wayyyy out of proportion. Carnival sideshow sized hands. Back in the day everyone had a gigantic right bicep and their left arm looked borrowed from Lance Armstrong.

There are many more dedicated lifters in the sport today than when I first came into contact with armwrestling in the 80's. (No, I was not a competitor yet.) So what I'm saying probably sounds out of line with what a guy sees for the first time nowadays, but I'm thinking not so much for most of you.

We all look normal to each other, but take it from a guy who's been away from it a while. You guys stick out.

[Anthony Edens]

I think it is a very rare thing to top the 1" per 10lb. ratio. It seems all but impossible to do it if you weigh over 180 lbs.
From reading the posts, there seems to be only a handful of guys who weigh more than 154lbs and can exceed the ratio.

[Jeremy Plaster]

Feb 26, 2009 23:07:53 GMT -5 Mike Moeller said:

Feb 26, 2009 21:15:53 GMT -5 Jeremy Plaster said:

You may be right Casey. I have not seen Greg in many years and I was 143 at the time, so maybe they just looked alot larger to me at the time. I think I MIGHT have had 15 inch arms then on a real good day. So I have at least gained 2 1/2 inches since then and I am currently walking around between 178 and 182.

J if you take off that green bay hat you could lose some dead weight man! at least 5 pounds. (go raiders) ;D

Lay off my Packers fool! lol Actually I got really upset with them when they pulled that crap with Brett. Statistically the best QB of all time and he kept a unheard of loyalty to that team..He deserved better. So I am now just a hometown guy..I cheer for my Rams and whoever Brett plays for...which I think is no one anymore as I doubt he'll come back again.