How to increase wrist size?

Well_I_Wonder said:

Hi,

I've always had really skinny arms, finally after eight months of free
weight exercises both my forearms and upper arms are looking quite bulky,
however my wrists are still virtually the same size. I even bought a
'powerball' to see if it would help, and although it's given me a very
strong grip it hasn't increased the bulk of my wrist.

Any tips/recommendations to bulk up my wrists?!

W.

There's nothing there to bulk up. Bone, skin, tendon, ligament - none of
these are going to grow to an extent that's really noticeable. You could
try getting REALLY fat or amputating your arms and hoping to get a
transplant from someone with big wrists.

Cheers,

Ari

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Well_I_Wonder said:

Hi,

I've always had really skinny arms, finally after eight months of free
weight exercises both my forearms and upper arms are looking quite bulky,
however my wrists are still virtually the same size. I even bought a
'powerball' to see if it would help, and although it's given me a very
strong grip it hasn't increased the bulk of my wrist.

Any tips/recommendations to bulk up my wrists?!

W.

Bench and deadlift heavy for years; it takes a lot longer to thicken bone and
connective tissue than muscle.

spodosaurus wrote: (snips here and there)

Quoted message said:

Well_I_Wonder wrote:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

I've always had really skinny arms,
finally after eight months of free
weight exercises both my forearms
and upper arms are looking quite
bulky, however my wrists

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Any tips/recommendations to bulk up
my wrists?!

There's nothing there to bulk up. You
could try getting REALLY fat or amputating
your arms and hoping to get a transplant
from someone with big wrists.

Nah, Ari. The surgeons could simply reattach his hands to the meatier
part of his forearm. Who needs a wrist anyway!?

Seriously, WIW, count your blessings re your arms and forearms actually
growing appreciably. Now if you're interested in increasing the size of
your wrist then pick up a copy of that one powerlifting magazine or
Google for strength training versus bodybuilding-type stuff.

Ari's right, though, in that I believe there's nothing you can do to
really make a noticeable difference in your wrist size. Mine are six
and a half inches and have been since age 15, perhaps even younger. Are
you, however, hitting the wrist curls, reverse wrist curls, wrist
roller, finger-tip pushups, etc.?

Best of luck, but - TRUST ME - things could be worse.

--
Curt
http://curtjames.com/

On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 14:20:07 +0100, "Well_I_Wonder" <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Any tips/recommendations to bulk up my wrists?!

Stop whacking off 65 times a day, and it'll gradually regenerate to
normal size.

TBR

"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and
more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day
the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the
White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
H.L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
"Anyone with degrees from Yale and Harvard is presumed to be intelligent,
but George W. Bush has managed to overcome that presumption."

On 26 Aug 2005 06:41:10 -0700, "Curt James" <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Nah, Ari. The surgeons could simply reattach his hands to the meatier
part of his forearm. Who needs a wrist anyway!?

Your sex life would be null without one Curt.

TBR

"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and
more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day
the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the
White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
H.L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
"Anyone with degrees from Yale and Harvard is presumed to be intelligent,
but George W. Bush has managed to overcome that presumption."

Hey W.

I had the same issues with skinny arms as you. Been working out
consistently for the past 8 months and I must say my bis and tris have
gained considerable size. However I still have skinny forearms. What
did you do to bulk up your forearms? I do a lot of reverse curls and
hammer curls and still nothing. I mean they've gotten a little bigger
but they are still skinny compared to my upper arms. Any insight would
be appreciated.

On 26 Aug 2005 07:15:25 -0700, "Curt James" <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

And re sex life, hey, since you seem to be curious: hand-elbow. No
wrist flexing involved.

Well, I guess I am not familiar with handling a 2" crank.

TBR

"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and
more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day
the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the
White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
H.L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
"Anyone with degrees from Yale and Harvard is presumed to be intelligent,
but George W. Bush has managed to overcome that presumption."

In article <[email hidden]>,

Well_I_Wonder said:

Hi,

I've always had really skinny arms, finally after eight months of free
weight exercises both my forearms and upper arms are looking quite bulky,
however my wrists are still virtually the same size. I even bought a
'powerball' to see if it would help, and although it's given me a very
strong grip it hasn't increased the bulk of my wrist.

Any tips/recommendations to bulk up my wrists?!

W.

The wrist is made up of bone, cartalige, tendons and ligaments.
There is virtually no actual muscle tissue in the wrist joint.

If you are going to work on hypertrophy, I'd suggest you study a little
anatomy and physiology. ;-) You can't make your wrists larger.

Try Gray's Anatomy:

http://www.bartleby.com/107/

Cheers!
--
Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-[censored]." -Jack Nicholson

In article <[email hidden]>,

Cellus said:

Hey W.

I had the same issues with skinny arms as you. Been working out
consistently for the past 8 months and I must say my bis and tris have
gained considerable size. However I still have skinny forearms. What
did you do to bulk up your forearms? I do a lot of reverse curls and
hammer curls and still nothing. I mean they've gotten a little bigger
but they are still skinny compared to my upper arms. Any insight would
be appreciated.

Geeze. My forearms are growing with no forearm specific work from just
doing really HEAVY deadlifting...

You could try some wrist curls, pronated and suppinated.
--
Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-[censored]." -Jack Nicholson

OmManiPadmeOmelet said:

The wrist is made up of bone, cartalige, tendons and ligaments.
There is virtually no actual muscle tissue in the wrist joint.

If you are going to work on hypertrophy, I'd suggest you study a little
anatomy and physiology. ;-) You can't make your wrists larger.

The bones, tendons, and ligaments slowly thicken in response to heavy training;
my wrists are about a quarter inch thicker than they were two years ago.

In article <[email hidden]>,

T said:

OmManiPadmeOmelet said:

The wrist is made up of bone, cartalige, tendons and ligaments.
There is virtually no actual muscle tissue in the wrist joint.

If you are going to work on hypertrophy, I'd suggest you study a little
anatomy and physiology. ;-) You can't make your wrists larger.

The bones, tendons, and ligaments slowly thicken in response to heavy
training;
my wrists are about a quarter inch thicker than they were two years ago.

Ok, big change eh? <lol>
I see your point, but I think the OP was looking for something faster
and larger?
--
Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-[censored]." -Jack Nicholson

T said:

OmManiPadmeOmelet said:

The wrist is made up of bone, cartalige, tendons and ligaments.
There is virtually no actual muscle tissue in the wrist joint.

If you are going to work on hypertrophy, I'd suggest you study a
little anatomy and physiology. ;-) You can't make your wrists larger.

The bones, tendons, and ligaments slowly thicken in response to heavy
training; my wrists are about a quarter inch thicker than they were two
years ago.

That happened to me, too. After immunoablation therapy with lots of
prednisolone. It's called porking up.

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I'm going to die rather sooner than I'd like. I tried to protect my
neighbours from crime, and became the victim of it. Complications in
hospital following this resulted in a serious illness. I now need a bone
marrow transplant. Many people around the world are waiting for a marrow
transplant, too. Please volunteer to be a marrow donor:
http://www.abmdr.org.au/
http://www.marrow.org/

"Cellus" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Hey W.

I had the same issues with skinny arms as you. Been working out
consistently for the past 8 months and I must say my bis and tris have
gained considerable size. However I still have skinny forearms. What
did you do to bulk up your forearms? I do a lot of reverse curls and
hammer curls and still nothing. I mean they've gotten a little bigger
but they are still skinny compared to my upper arms. Any insight would
be appreciated.

My forearms mostly increased in size from doing exercises specific to other
areas, I guess in doing bench presses, dumbell flys etc the forearm come in
to play a little at least when starting out? More lately I've also been
doing hammer curls and reverse curls, I think the hammer curls have been
more beneficial for me. I also bought a powerball, which I thought might
help my wrists but it does make my forearms burn so it might be doing some
good.

W.

"Well_I_Wonder" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Hi,

I've always had really skinny arms, finally after eight months of free
weight exercises both my forearms and upper arms are looking quite bulky,
however my wrists are still virtually the same size. I even bought a
'powerball' to see if it would help, and although it's given me a very
strong grip it hasn't increased the bulk of my wrist.

Any tips/recommendations to bulk up my wrists?!

W.

Thanks all,

Yeah I've been doing wrist curls and reverse wrist curls, my strength is
increasing well but I was just a little disappointed by the lack of size
increase. My wrists have increased slightly as my watch is now tight but
it's not really noticeable to the eye. I guess it's early days and as people
have said with time the ligaments and bone structure will increase in size.

Thanks again!

W.

Cellus,
To really get the forearms to grow more like Popeye's I think that
using a weight suspended from a stick with rope and rolling it up with
your wrists is a good exercise. I do these and talk about a burn. It
doesn't take a lot of weight and doing 8 reps is a killer.

James

On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 14:20:07 +0100, "Well_I_Wonder" <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Hi,

I've always had really skinny arms, finally after eight months of free
weight exercises both my forearms and upper arms are looking quite bulky,
however my wrists are still virtually the same size. I even bought a
'powerball' to see if it would help, and although it's given me a very
strong grip it hasn't increased the bulk of my wrist.

Any tips/recommendations to bulk up my wrists?!

W.

You can't do jack sh&% about it but on the bright side, small joints
make your forearm look bigger.

--
Is this thing on?

The Broken Record said:

Well, I guess I am not familiar with handling a 2" crank.

TBR

I'm not interested in your boyfriend problems, Bro.

--
Curt
http://curtjames.com/

Yes, when I was a kid I saw this boy named Bill
zip himself up. Ever
since, he has been fascinated by his member. He
obsesses about it,
plays with it, and revolves his life around it. A
very sad story
indeed

On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 14:20:07 +0100,

Well_I_Wonder said:

Hi,

I've always had really skinny arms, finally after eight months of free
weight exercises both my forearms and upper arms are looking quite bulky,
however my wrists are still virtually the same size. I even bought a
'powerball' to see if it would help, and although it's given me a very
strong grip it hasn't increased the bulk of my wrist.

Any tips/recommendations to bulk up my wrists?!

W.

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