Is an 18" Arm Big ?

[TrainBIG]

Hey guys! Not necessarily a new member but haven't posted much and have been inactive for a few years now. Life is calming down enough now though to where I can pick back up and have started hitting the gym hard again. My background is in power lifting/bodybuilding ( have competed/coached both) and I have a degree in athletic therapy and nutrition! So I'll probably be posting on the nutrition forums a bit. Other than that I'm just here to learn a bunch from y'all and try to contribute where I can! I have ran gear a few times but an no means a pro at it and am definitely interested in learning more about training while on. Lookin forward to it! Thanks guys!

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[TrainBIG]

Hey guys! Not necessarily a new member but haven't posted much and have been inactive for a few years now. Life is calming down enough now though to where I can pick back up and have started hitting the gym hard again. My background is in power lifting/bodybuilding ( have competed/coached both) and I have a degree in athletic therapy and nutrition! So I'll probably be posting on the nutrition forums a bit. Other than that I'm just here to learn a bunch from y'all and try to contribute where I can! I have ran gear a few times but an no means a pro at it and am definitely interested in learning more about training while on. Lookin forward to it! Thanks guys!

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Ignore this. Posted to the wrong board. My bad ha

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[19incharms]

If you are cut., it looks big at almost any size.

 

[AllLoadedUp]

Depends on many factors. How big they "look" I think is mostly determined by how lean they are. With that said genetics suck. I've been as heavy as 290 at 6' tall. My arms were still only 18.5 on the right and 18 on the left. Now that SUCKS. I could gain 20lbs of lean muscle none of it is going to my arms. I can take my thumb and fore-finger and touch from one end of my bicep to the other. That's why they are so small. The muscles are just too short to achieve any size. Short muscle belly=small muscle.

 

[Stewie Griffon]

18" lean or fat?

There are walmart cashiers with HUGE arms!!!!!

if you are 6'6" and have an 18" arm - even lean - it's small

5'6" and 18" lean is big

it's all relative to leanness and body size

 

[ironhands]

call me crazy but to me 18 '' arms are NOT big. i'm natty and my arms are over 19'' and i'm ripped (they used to be 20'' when i was a bit heavier and not as lean) but in all fairness my arms are just a genetic gift (i saw a pic of Franco Columbu and he had tape around arm, his arms were 18'')

 

[cal]

call me crazy but to me 18 '' arms are NOT big. i'm natty and my arms are over 19'' and i'm ripped (they used to be 20'' when i was a bit heavier and not as lean) but in all fairness my arms are just a genetic gift (i saw a pic of Franco Columbu and he had tape around arm, his arms were 18'')

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[Marvin Martian]

call me crazy but to me 18 '' arms are NOT big. i'm natty and my arms are over 19'' and i'm ripped (they used to be 20'' when i was a bit heavier and not as lean) but in all fairness my arms are just a genetic gift (i saw a pic of Franco Columbu and he had tape around arm, his arms were 18'')

You’re not telling the truth now are you ironhands?? :naughty:

Natural - ripped - over - 19”

Now is when you tell us some nonsense as to why you can’t post pics... or simply ignore the challenge

 

[thethinker48]

You’re not telling the truth now are you ironhands?? :naughty:

Natural - ripped - over - 19”

Now is when you tell us some nonsense as to why you can’t post pics... or simply ignore the challenge

Arthur Jones measured Arnold's arms cold at 19 3/4, and this is Arnold we are talking about!

But then again shape of your muscle bellies play a role too. You can have "big" arms, with long limbs and bad muscle bellies and still they aren't sticking out like Danny Padilla's arms which were not 20+ but phenomenal

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[maldorf]

Decent article

Just found this, not too bad really.

https://www.t-nation.com/training/truth-about-bodybuilding-arm-measurements

 

[Gizmo]

Just found this, not too bad really.

https://www.t-nation.com/training/truth-about-bodybuilding-arm-measurements

Bodybuilder B, Lee Priest?

 

[maldorf]

Bodybuilder B, Lee Priest?

Sounds about right doesn't it!?

 

[ubermensch]

It's big but in the way a pretty fat girl is pretty. If it has to be explained on why it's big it's not really all that big

 

[Sugashane]

You’re not telling the truth now are you ironhands?? :naughty:

Natural - ripped - over - 19”

Now is when you tell us some nonsense as to why you can’t post pics... or simply ignore the challenge

Sometimes you're too big to fit in a picture, naturally.

 

[Marvin Martian]

Sometimes you're too big to fit in a picture, naturally.

Dude you are right... I didn’t think about that!! Ironhands - I’m sorry brother - of course you can’t post a pic of ripped natural 19” arms... how the hell would you even fit in the screen....

Sugashane - thanks for checking me man. I sometimes type before I think it through.

 

[Elvia1023]

call me crazy but to me 18 '' arms are NOT big. i'm natty and my arms are over 19'' and i'm ripped (they used to be 20'' when i was a bit heavier and not as lean) but in all fairness my arms are just a genetic gift (i saw a pic of Franco Columbu and he had tape around arm, his arms were 18'')

:star-w:rs

 

[maldorf]

Depends on how lean and how tall you are, as everyone has been saying.

I had mine up to a bit over 20 inches with syntherol. Afterwards I leaned down some and they got back down to about 19 1/2 inches and looked better.

http://www.professionalmuscle.com/f.../26221-my-experience-syntherol-synthetek.html

Even if Franco Columbo had 18 inch arms, they looked like they were 24"! The guy was really short.

 

[heavyhitter]

My arms have been up to 19 3/4 at their very largest. But considering im 6'1'' and have long ass ape arms they still really don't look all that big on me. Have someone flex next to me and obviously mine are larger....but with my frame I feel like theyd need to be upwards of 21+ inches to really look BIG

 

[rmtt]

Like I mentioned before....one benefit of being short. I'm only 5'7" and last time I measured my arms were maybe 17.5"......so pitiful if going by numbers.

But for some reason I get comments all the times on my arms.....I think just them being vascular gives the optical illusion of that extra 1/2" and being 18"!

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[trekrider215]

It's only big if your not fat. With as old as this thread is, i'm sure someone has already said that though.