out of proportion - Page 2

PAWrestlerDude · #41 August 27th, 2004, 07:43 AM

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Originally Posted by garrix

I play piano a lot and people tell me my forearms look pretty big. I dont notice it anymore, but i guess they're sorta "disproportionate"

But if you want a good forearm excersize try double octaves up and down on a keyboard, then broken octaves, then pleanty of rapid tremolos. It'll get you sore.... trust me.

I play the skin flute a lot. Now I wonder if my jaw and neck muscles are disproportionate like your forearms are.

optimusx · #42 August 27th, 2004, 07:56 AM

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Originally Posted by garrix

I play piano a lot and people tell me my forearms look pretty big. I dont notice it anymore, but i guess they're sorta "disproportionate"

But if you want a good forearm excersize try double octaves up and down on a keyboard, then broken octaves, then pleanty of rapid tremolos. It'll get you sore.... trust me.

So that explains my forearms being just slightly smaller than my upper arms.

Also, if you want a *good* forearm burner, try playing with a band that plays traditional southern black gospel (read large pounding chords and running up and down that board). I did that one night for nearly 1.5 hours and I don't know what hurt worse, my forarms or the tips of my fingers...

Scott

paarke · #43 August 27th, 2004, 02:43 PM

I got asked to play the organ at a relatives wedding a couple of years ago. This thing had a tracker action which probably hadn't been touched for years, talk about heavy. They couldn't have some nice simple music though, it had to be Widors toccata. I swear I've never done anything in the gym that has made my forearms ache like that. If you play the C minor prelude from the first book of the well tempered clavier nice and fast thats good for getting the forearms aching too. I love this board, we're all so damn butch!

brent · #44 August 27th, 2004, 03:05 PM

Back in college, when I was taking typing class after a workout, I could feel my forearms exploding. It was great, and noticeable that a couple guys noticed they got a pump during class. I don't get that with my casual rate I type at these days, only under the extreme stress of 3 hours of competitive drills...

glammaman2000 · #45 August 27th, 2004, 05:38 PM

try rolling hair up in curlers for 8 hrs.a day!(or so i've heard)

garrix · #46 August 28th, 2004, 02:51 AM

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Originally Posted by paarke

I got asked to play the organ at a relatives wedding a couple of years ago. This thing had a tracker action which probably hadn't been touched for years, talk about heavy. They couldn't have some nice simple music though, it had to be Widors toccata. I swear I've never done anything in the gym that has made my forearms ache like that. If you play the C minor prelude from the first book of the well tempered clavier nice and fast thats good for getting the forearms aching too. I love this board, we're all so damn butch!

i really like that Toccata. Its fun to listen to, but it sound like a bitch to play.

I just finished the C minor Prelude, actually, funny of you to mention that. Im working on the c minor fugue now too. You know, get the two of 'em, make a nice pair. But its soooo sloooooooooow to get good at. tons of practice. ugg.

paarke · #47 August 28th, 2004, 03:37 PM

Its a great feeling when you finally get your fingers around a fugue. Worth the effort. They send me cross eyed trying to sight read the score if they have more than 3 parts though. I'm sure thats why I went short sighted! lol We should market this as a workout programme, there'll be thousands of guys walking around with massive forearms. Are you going to try your luck with the C# major next? I used to try and get away with dropping it the semitone to make it easier but I never got away with it.

falseyedee · #48 June 27th, 2005, 02:37 PM

sunday was "pride" in san francisco. with almost a million people coming in to either be in or watch the parade, there is guaranteed eye candy galore.

most of the hunks were watching, but one convertable in the parade went by with two big muscular guys wearing nothing but lycra, box cut shorts and a smile. one was a young, milk chocolate colored black guy with a real body builder's physique, complete with the sway back that comes from building up both your chest and your glutes. he was by far the bigger of the two and with the most proportionate build. though it was clear he was neglecting his back and the back of his shoulders: his shoulders were pulled forward by his pec development when he was relaxed. it made him look like his back was rounded. i've seen this alot in lifters and bodybuilders who concentrate only on the muscles you can see when you face the mirror. his pecs were very nice though.

but, the other guy, shaved headed and pasty white, had the kind of disproportionate build that i find so sexy. he had a long torso, nice abs and a nice, not huge, chest. but his shoulders and arms WERE huge. they were big way out of proprtion to the rest of his body. it really looked like he had put on somebody else's arms and shoulders. you could see from a distance how out of scale they were to the rest of his body. and when the car went by where we were watching, his physique looked wrong in such a sexy way. a lot of guys who spend lots of energy on their biceps forget to train their triceps and deltoids. this guy had put as much effort into those muscles as he had into his biceps. it was paying off in a really nice way. it was really hot!

newmus · #49 June 27th, 2005, 05:31 PM

this thread reminded of a bus ride i had one evening when my car was dead. i had gotten on a packed bus (p.m. rush hour), went to the back sat down a lo and behold the most muscular pair of calves were sitting a few seats in front of me. i mean they were HEEEUUUGGGEEE! they litteraly looked like they belonged on a 6'-0" tall 260 lb bodybuilder, but in stead they were attached to some 6'-1" 195 lb fitness guy, who quite obviously was a avid cyclist.

jackspratt · #50 June 28th, 2005, 03:13 PM

Someone mentioned Tony Diglio in this thread. He goes to my gym in Rockland County, NY. He's a really nice guy. He is quite a bit smaller now. He seems to be very busy with work and does not have the time to work out like he used to. I also figure the supplement usage is way down also.

Jockmorphr · #51 June 28th, 2005, 07:51 PM

I agree with newmus (and the others who mentioned this phenomenon) the disproportionately large thighs and/or calves on avid cyclists have always been a major eye-catcher (and turn-on) for me.

Recently I was walking down Union St. in San Francisco when I passed a nice-looking young blonde guy walking with his mother. He was obviously athletic with a muscular swimmers build, but what totally blew me away was his calf development. They were literally enormous. Melon-like. I couldn't stop myself from staring as he walked past me. I even faked an errand further up the street so I could follow him for a bit. I was just amazed at these huge bulked-up muscles on an otherwise "merely" toned dude.

What is it about these obvious over-developments that gets our attention vs. a nicely and evenly-developed physique?

Guys, please keep sharing these sightings!

JMH02003 · #52 June 29th, 2005, 03:00 PM

I remember one day I was switching through the channels and saw MADtv. They were doing a MTV Spring break parody, and one of the guys they had was oddly built.

I can't say that he had "overdeveloped" anything, but he had good sized pecs and really cut abs, and fairly good biceps/shoulders. But he had absolutely NO LATS. It was quite strange looking.

BBMikeNJ · #53 June 30th, 2005, 09:03 AM

I lifted at a gym for about a year where this guy would come in and workout only his arms. I would see him whenever I worked out at lunchtime, and he was always there, and spent most of his time doing preacher curls. He was a blue collar kinda guy, solid average build everywhere else, and always dressed in his dickey brand pants and short-sleeved work shirt. His arms were huge. Not ripped up like a bodybuilder's, but totally bulked up with pure size. Completely out of proportion with the rest of his body. His demeanor was a little off-putting, he kept to himself, and looked like he might have spent some time in prison, or in a mental hospital, so I usually kept my distance, but one day I was lifting near him and just had to say something. His arms were totally pumped from about an hour of preachers...the skin was stretched tight and reddened. the sleeves of his workshirt were bunched up in that space between the biceps and the delt. I said to him, 'man, your arms are getting huge.' He looked at me sort of dully at first, but then smiled proudly, and raised one big arm up into a flex. He looked at the biceps as if it were his child, then said "I've been working them seven days a week for years now." He patted his big arm with his other hand. It sounded like he was patting marble. Then he turned back to the preacher bench, and started another set.

glammaman2000 · #54 September 9th, 2005, 09:07 PM

...Having dinner with my buddy yesterday;&a sidewalk seat.Kid walks by.Young,about24/25.Not tall,about5'6".Lean,tight upper body,not big;kinda like a bike messenger.He may have been a bike messenger(hauling BRICKS!)because his thighs were HUMONGOUS!PRO BODYBUILDER RIPPED!!!He knew it,too:'cuz the legs were tan,shaved&in itty-bitty lycra shorts!yikes!

DaBigGuy1 · #55 November 15th, 2005, 02:45 AM

I can remember watching the Winter Olympics one year, and the event was Downhill Skiing (Or ?). In any case, there was this one competitior that had the LARGEST QUADS I had ever seen@!! At the end of the downhill run he stood straight up, and it was like he had two huge melons shoved in his ski suit! When he walked they actually wobbled.

I would think his thighs/quads were developed from years of skiing/practicing in a "squat" position and more than likely years of squatting in the gym so his legs could act as "shock absorbers" more efficiently. Just a guess, but who cares! HUBBA HUBBA what thighs!

Minotaur · #56 November 15th, 2005, 08:51 AM

Eric Heiden? http://espn.go.com/sportscentury/features/00014225.htmlSpeed skater. If this is who you are thinking of, the size and definition of his quads blew me away long before I ever picked up a weight.

newmus · #57 August 12th, 2006, 10:38 PM

a couple of months ago i was in the gym and this guy in his 30's is there working out his delts. he was fairly muscular, nice arms nice chest nice back but he had the shoulders of ronnie coleman!! o.k. i'm exaggerating but they were enourmous! you just couldn't take your eyes off of them.

ottomun6 · #58 August 13th, 2006, 09:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Minotaur

Eric Heiden? http://espn.go.com/sportscentury/features/00014225.htmlSpeed skater. If this is who you are thinking of, the size and definition of his quads blew me away long before I ever picked up a weight.

Yeah, he got me all hot and bothered way back when. I remember just tuning in to see his huge legs in those tights

TheMM · #59 August 14th, 2006, 01:35 PM

Well, hmm... Out of proportion eh. I would have to say my best bud (won't say his real name) Jake.

Jake was always a swimmer about 5 foot 8 now, in fact he won the state champion ship few years ago. He's always had the swimmer's build (has size, but is more definition) and yet his arms must have been at least 18 (un-pumped) inches in high school, the fortunate thing is, he never ever, EVER worked out on his arms. It was kinda weird and hot at the same time, this muscled yet slightly skinner swimmer with arms that could move all the water in the pool.

On a side note: No I was not a swimmer as well, in fact I'm... nevermind, too scared to say it.