Cycling and those damn skinny arms...
09-04-09, 07:24 PM
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09-04-09, 07:36 PM
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Bicycle Repair Man !!!
I'm built very similarly to this guy (same height, weight, and arms) and am probably one of the few that isn't too fat for the sport... 
Up until a few years ago I was an apprentice machinist and it was a extremely physically demanding job with a great deal of heavy lifting... a common task was to drill out hydraulic brake discs which weighed 120 pounds (I weighed 145) and because of their design had to be dead lifted and set into the jig.
I did hundreds and hundreds of these and there wasn't much in our shop that weighed less than 40 pounds... and we were always wrestling with steel.
I'd shovel tons of slag every day... that's hundred and hundreds of reps with significant weights.
I only gained a little bit of weight but got totally ripped doing this for two years... at 43 I now know that short of using steroids, all the weight lifting in the world will not bulk me up as I have a genetic pre-disposition to be lean and compact which make cycling an ideal sport.
I never found my size to be a detriment when I trained, taught, and competed in martial arts and as a rock climber, lighter and stronger was always better than carrying any extra weight.
Up until a few years ago I was an apprentice machinist and it was a extremely physically demanding job with a great deal of heavy lifting... a common task was to drill out hydraulic brake discs which weighed 120 pounds (I weighed 145) and because of their design had to be dead lifted and set into the jig.
I did hundreds and hundreds of these and there wasn't much in our shop that weighed less than 40 pounds... and we were always wrestling with steel.
I'd shovel tons of slag every day... that's hundred and hundreds of reps with significant weights.
I only gained a little bit of weight but got totally ripped doing this for two years... at 43 I now know that short of using steroids, all the weight lifting in the world will not bulk me up as I have a genetic pre-disposition to be lean and compact which make cycling an ideal sport.
I never found my size to be a detriment when I trained, taught, and competed in martial arts and as a rock climber, lighter and stronger was always better than carrying any extra weight.
09-04-09, 07:47 PM
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Bicycle Repair Man !!!
09-04-09, 11:02 PM
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Go as fast as you can
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Me at 155 lbs...6',2"
climbing full time.
At Hueco Tanks
Pulling down on a V7 Onsight and working a V10
40+ pullups on my fingertips off the couch at the time. Plus a few one arm pull ups
And no gigantic arms...hmmmmmm
09-04-09, 11:14 PM
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It's not. As a former competetive bodybuilder none of that stuff has helped my riding one bit. Well, maybe some strength, but the joint injuries are not worth it.
This is me @ 185lbs in a universe far, far away. (I still throw the weights around these days, but not in bodybuilding fashion)
This is me @ 185lbs in a universe far, far away. (I still throw the weights around these days, but not in bodybuilding fashion)
09-05-09, 12:25 AM
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Has coddling tendencies.
09-05-09, 01:31 AM
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And that is hardly a healthy sport.
09-05-09, 01:37 AM
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out walking the earth
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I see the Bike Forums Think Tank met last week...
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Resumed:
OP doesn't like skinny arms.
We cyclists like our skinny arms and don't care about the OP.
OP doesn't like skinny arms.
We cyclists like our skinny arms and don't care about the OP.
09-05-09, 11:27 AM
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ras looks like a holocaust victim.
09-05-09, 11:38 AM
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I'd like to see the arms of the person who started this thread. I bet you he has some floppy big chunky arms. What an idiot. You laugh at us having skinny arms but we laugh at you with huge diesel arm riding a bike. It looks even more ridiculous.
09-05-09, 12:01 PM
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He played a$$ back...everytime he went out on the field the coach said "get your a$$ back here".
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