Measurements

[TheProject]

Okay, I'll pop my head up again.

The wrist size/muscle growth question has come up before, and sparked a debate about how to make your wrists bigger. There's a lot of flaming going on in these threads, but may be some useful information too.

http://boards.elitefitness.com/foru...d=517662&sortby=lastpost&sortorder=descending

 

[Cheetarah]

Wrist measurments are a fairly effective way to estimate bone structure. As no muscle will grow at that particular point of the wrist, it is a way to get an estimate.

Most "hardgainers" have fairly small wrists (among men). Large wrists denote a large bone structure, and those are usually people who gain easily (again, not a constant, but fairly close to correct).

My wrists are close to 9 inches... it makes buying jewlery a bitch!

That's interesting. Since my wrists seem fairly large for a woman, I've always thought I had a large frame but apparently there is a difference between being large framed and having thick bones cause after seeing pics of other women and just being more observant, I found that I actually have fairly narrow hips (my bubble butt makes my hip measurement big, lol) and shoulders compared to the majority, yet my wrists are big. And I can put it on (muscle & fat) like there's no tomorrow but getting rid of it is REALLY hard! Put it this way, I went thru 6 weeks of basic training which is mostly cardio and actually GAINED weight! I put on 7 lbs that has never come off since then. I put on another 5 lbs at my first base, just exercising and eating good, then another 8 lbs when I started lifting free weights seriously. And now I've been cutting for 8 months now and STILL weigh the same! The fat is coming off ever so slowly, ugh.

FitFossil, measure your wrists right across the bones, yeah, the knobs.

 

[vixenbabe]

What a bunch of limp wrists...lol

I feel like a damn man with 7 inch wrists!Cripes, now I can say that I carry my fat in my wrists as well as my ASS!

If someone does NOT come forward with 7 inch wrists I'm tempted to change my avatar to showcase my fat wrists instead of my pussy....Then you all can give me a routine for my damn wrist workout!

VIVA LA THICK WRISTS!

 

[Cheetarah]

Okay, will someone please enlighten me here? How can someone increase their wrist size OR have fat wrists? I don't know about anyone else but my wrists are just bones and I don't even see how it's possible to add mass to wrist bones unless you're really fat. My wrist bones stick out from the rest of my arm. So you all are confusing the heck out of me with these comments about fat wrists and making wrists bigger. I thought they were just bones. And I didn't think it was possible to add anything to your wrist bones unless you're so overweight that the fat is overlapping them or something like that.

 

[vixenbabe]

I'm taking pictures....I got boney ass wrists but they still are 7 inches! My hubby informs me that I have big hands as well...Jerk!I'm looking at my hands in relation to the updated pic...I have big hands too...lol I'm doomed!

I'm sticking with my VIVA LA THICK WRISTS...

 

[CAROLINACHICK]

Damn, (you girls have always made me feel like a little wimp.)lol
My wrist are 5 1/2. I told you I was a puny lil' b*tch.
But I've always thought I was big boned. (just not in the wrist)
no damn wonder my upper body is so weak, my wrist are too puny ta help out.

 

[magdelana]

Oke i had to find a tape mesure with inches to join this discussion.

My wrists are TINY for me, just over 6 inches, but with very wide hands.

My bone structure is mixed as i have a very wide clavicel, but my knees are also small.

Oke i think i am the giant ass size queen here. I have 16% bf but still 42 inches of ass.

spatts, i could invent my own new squat type, the ass squat. Feet slightly wider then sholders, head up, stand up straight...now place an olympia bar on top of your ass.....no need for harness or to hold it of course.....

 

[Cheetarah]

....
Oke i think i am the giant ass size queen here. I have 16% bf but still 42 inches of ass.

spatts, i could invent my own new squat type, the ass squat. Feet slightly wider then sholders, head up, stand up straight...now place an olympia bar on top of your ass.....no need for harness or to hold it of course.....

So far it looks to me like the average is somewhere between 6-7". Cool, this is satisfying my curiosity. Maybe I'm average after all, and not thick-boned like I thought. And it seems like bone structure is as varied as something like skin type. I'm thinking that bone size/thickness goes along with race, as in Asians tend to have smaller bones as compared to Americans and Germans. Good stuff.

 

[magdelana]

spatts, did you say they did not tell you your total T levels? Just that it was like a 40 yr old man? Sounds like your levels was very like mine. A 40 year old untrained man would be in the low normal T range probably.

I read a lot of it before i had mine done. The range for a man is 220 -850 or so ng/dl. My total T was 222, and my total free T (the stuff not bound by SBGH and is ready to build muscle) was very high.

Is THIS why magdelana thinks of seks every 2.3 seconds??

 

[FitFossil]

My wrists are 5 7/8". My hands are pretty big. My feet are big too - size 9 and I'm 5'5". But they're long and narrow feet, with long toes, w/2nd toe longer than the big toe. My fingers are long too. OK, I've said enough, this might be scaring people