Thin wrists

[cfreetenor]

I understand wrists are mostly tendon. Mine are almost humorously thin however. I have large hands, but I can even touch my thumb and pinky together if I squeeze a bit around my wrist.

I imagine the solution would be something like hand and grip strength exercises. I plan to try to Ed Coan barbell hold and see what that does. I noticed some success doing 50 hops on the ball of each foot holding 40 lb dumbbells - which I figured would be helpful for Muay Thai. Should I continue to target forearms totally and eventually have the mass creep up closer to my hands? Or should I do specifically targeted training? My forearms in general can use a lot of work so I would do a mix of the two, but I am specifically concerned about wrist thinness.

PS I have found pull ups to be a bit more engaging in that area than chin ups, so I have also worked them into my routine.

 

[J DUGIN]

Post a pic, let’s see these humorously thin wrists you speak of.

 

[cfreetenor]

Post a pic, let’s see these humorously thin wrists you speak of.

I don’t know about that, @Eman already gave me shit for posting a nipple pinch pic that HE ASKED ME FOR.

It’s on my media though.

 

[Ironlord]

You're basically stuck with genetics. I train with a guy with 18"arms, huge shoulders... But he has the tiniest wrists I've ever seen... And baby hands lol... Smallest hands on a guy ever. Lol.

Even increasing the thickness of your wrist muscles /tendons isn't going to really give a noticeable increase in size, and if your forearms get too big your wrists will look even smaller...

 

[Perrin Aybara]

I can deadlift almost 700lbs without straps and my wrists are as small as they ever were. Not quite pinky to thumb, but ring finger to thumb around them easily.

 

[cfreetenor]

Well that really sucks. GH or analogies make any appreciable difference?

 

[bornSkinny]

Mine are probably skinnier than yours. I can’t even wear a man’s watch bc it would look ridiculous. I have the wrists of a 13 girl but I bench in the high 300’s.

You are stuck with that size unless you used GH for a prolonged period of time. That MIGHT get them bigger.

 

[CrispyRockClimber]

Go Rock Climbing

 

[Eman]

I don’t know about that, @Eman already gave me shit for posting a nipple pinch pic that HE ASKED ME FOR.

It’s on my media though.

In my defense, I didn't think you'd call my bluff. You didn't disappoint. I actually vaguely recall that thread...

I really don't think GH will be the answer for you. I've used my fair share and I have never noticed a difference. Even if you did, I'm sure you would experience growth in places you didn't want it too.

However, I use wrist wraps quite a bit for pressing movements and I've always felt that the small muscles in my hands have gotten thicker from doing that. I have felt it is similar enough to blood occlusion training to make sense that this could be the reason.

On the other hand, I very rarely use straps for anything. Even with something like shrugs, I always go as long as possible until I'm not able to hit my reps before I bring out the straps... I think this has improved my forearms and I never directly train forearms.

Those might be good trade offs... Wrists are really genetic based. If you have bigger muscles around them though, might offer some satisfaction.

 

[cfreetenor]

In my defense, I didn't think you'd call my bluff. You didn't disappoint. I actually vaguely recall that thread...

I really don't think GH will be the answer for you. I've used my fair share and I have never noticed a difference. Even if you did, I'm sure you would experience growth in places you didn't want it too.

However, I use wrist wraps quite a bit for pressing movements and I've always felt that the small muscles in my hands have gotten thicker from doing that. I have felt it is similar enough to blood occlusion training to make sense that this could be the reason.

On the other hand, I very rarely use straps for anything. Even with something like shrugs, I always go as long as possible until I'm not able to hit my reps before I bring out the straps... I think this has improved my forearms and I never directly train forearms.

Those might be good trade offs... Wrists are really genetic based. If you have bigger muscles around them though, might offer some satisfaction.

I thought you were being serious LOL, seemed to be a plausible diagnostic. You mistake my naïveté for cunning. I guess I’m blessed that way!

If you think it is makeshift BFR that made the difference, perhaps I should just do that? I really find that skinny wrists even when building a heavier frame scream “pretty boy.”

I’m certainly willing to devote some energy to this. BFR, rock climbing, GH, aggressive masturbation, whatever!

 

[bornSkinny]

In my defense, I didn't think you'd call my bluff. You didn't disappoint. I actually vaguely recall that thread...

I really don't think GH will be the answer for you. I've used my fair share and I have never noticed a difference. Even if you did, I'm sure you would experience growth in places you didn't want it too.

However, I use wrist wraps quite a bit for pressing movements and I've always felt that the small muscles in my hands have gotten thicker from doing that. I have felt it is similar enough to blood occlusion training to make sense that this could be the reason.

On the other hand, I very rarely use straps for anything. Even with something like shrugs, I always go as long as possible until I'm not able to hit my reps before I bring out the straps... I think this has improved my forearms and I never directly train forearms.

Those might be good trade offs... Wrists are really genetic based. If you have bigger muscles around them though, might offer some satisfaction.

I think the opposite as far as bigger muscles around them making them look bigger. I avoid fore arms for this reason. Everything being relative think about it.

You look shorter standing next to someone way taller.
When you shave your pubes your dick looks bigger.

Women are always playing this game with the other women they hang with. If she has a big ass nose, she will find a chick with the biggest nose to kick it with. Why? Because everything is relative and hers will look less freakish.

I can’t say if GH would help but I had I poster of “the bash brothers” on my wall as a kid, and MM’s wrist looked way different ten years later.

 

[Test_Subject]

Fellow small-wrister. I can touch my thumb and ring finger around them.

There's not really anything that you can do about it since there's no muscle to speak of in that area.

 

[koolio]

Funny story...40 years ago I was a trainer at a local Scandinavian health spa...I was talking with another trainer about wrist size...I told him I read that the average height man has a 7 inch wrist...he says " I wish I had 7 inches"...some women overheard him and started laughing...he hears them laughing and starts yelling at them...they complained to management and he was forced to apologize.......

 

[The Terminator]

I can deadlift almost 700lbs without straps and my wrists are as small as they ever were. Not quite pinky to thumb, but ring finger to thumb around them easily.

Hmm you had me wondering if I had small wrists too cause I can just barely touch thumb to middle finger on the narrowest part of my wrist as long as it’s relaxed ie not making a fist, if I make a fist I can’t touch. Then I read again and I saw you wrote ring finger not middle finger lol. I guess mine are slightly above average...average wrist girth being 7” but idk if you measure the narrowest or if it’s like dick girth where you measure at the thickest.

 

[Perrin Aybara]

Hmm you had me wondering if I had small wrists too cause I can just barely touch thumb to middle finger on the narrowest part of my wrist as long as it’s relaxed ie not making a fist, if I make a fist I can’t touch. Then I read again and I saw you wrote ring finger not middle finger lol. I guess mine are slightly above average...average wrist girth being 7” but idk if you measure the narrowest or if it’s like dick girth where you measure at the thickest.

Yeah, I always thought if you could get your finger and thumb around like that it meant small wrists. My wrists are 7", so maybe just long fingers and average wrists.

 

[TANGO.ECHO.KILO]

Have u tried eatin ass? Might help with your body dysmorphia...christ buddy get out of the mirror there's a whole world out here.

 

[The Terminator]

Yeah, I always thought if you could get your finger and thumb around like that it meant small wrists. My wrists are 7", so maybe just long fingers and average wrists.

Definitely normal, if they were say 5” then they’d be dainty lol

 

[koolio]

40 years ago the average man was 5'9" and weighed 175 pounds...don't forget there are 3 somatotypes...endomorph(fat), ectomorph (thin) and mesomorph (athletic)...most of us are a combination of two of these...for example I am 6'2" and I consider myself an ecto- meso...my wrist is 7"...I guess that is cosidered a light frame...I was sitting next to friend and noticed his knees are almost twice as wide as mine...he is 6'2" but is a 275 pound mesomorph that once squatted 875 pounds...his wrists are almost 9"...but I am much more muscular and people always though we weighed the same...