Veins!

[Land_Down_Under]

I can't remember who it was but there was a pic of a non tanned white guy who had rope arm veins n a road map across his chest/shoulder

[Musc1eBound]

Jason Huh

[flahexer]

It irritates me how lean some guys (Platz, Müntzer) were with ridiculous amounts of muscle and still you couldn't really see a whole lot of veins on them. Especially Platz who was known to hit his legs with high reps, which should contribute to developing vascularity. Must be genetics.





On the other hand, guys like Branch...





Don't know how much photoshop is involved here, but damn:




Also, that makes me wonder if some judges confuse vascularity with graininess.

[sexnews]

^^Good point

[wolfpilp]

^^good point indeed

[ktodaz]

[HeadlessChicken]

This thread is really killing me...I'm almost at the peak of my bulk One day I will have vascular calves! But it is not this day

[Loctus]

aaahhh yes, Paco Bautista. Sickkk

[detrimental]

Why anybody would want (the guy complaining about calves) abnormal vascularity is beyond me

It's disgusting beyond an amazement factor for bodybuilding

[Ajthemeso]

Why anybody would want (the guy complaining about calves) abnormal vascularity is beyond me

It's disgusting beyond an amazement factor for bodybuilding

it's subjective obviously. everyone has their own idea of what looks good.

[HeadlessChicken]

Why anybody would want (the guy complaining about calves) abnormal vascularity is beyond me

It's disgusting beyond an amazement factor for bodybuilding

Of course everybody thinks what they like is best. Your desire to build an abnormal amount of muscle would be considered disgusting to most people. Just because somebody's goals are different than yours doesn't mean they're bad goals...

[yzrider400f]

Especially Platz who was known to hit his legs with high reps, which should contribute to developing vascularity. Must be bro science

fixed

[sexnews]

[MaKaiser]

Why anybody would want (the guy complaining about calves) abnormal vascularity is beyond me

It's disgusting beyond an amazement factor for bodybuilding

[wala]

It's genetics I guess. Some guys get super shredded and not one vein in sight, others can be 15% BF still have good vascularity in their arms etc.

Some veins look good but too much and it take away from the physique - lets face it, this sport is all about building muscle, not veins

[sexnews]

Cool story:

In the late 80s there was a guy I helped and after the show one of the judges said:

"Do you know what your best pose is? Your side tricep pose. When you bring out those veins. Incredible!"

This guy used to be able to at will "bring out" his veins. He would go into the tricep pose and then after a second or two "bring out" the veins all over his triceps and shoulders. He could obviously also do the same during the side chest, but he had massive triceps and made the pose even more impressive.

[flahexer]

fixed

Lou had some great looking ones on his biceps:







Also, he looks ridiculously huge here.

[MrDeafMuscle]

His veins even line up with his other leg veins. (Right underneath his butt if you didn't notice.)

[Ajthemeso]

[Alex54321]

Why anybody would want (the guy complaining about calves) abnormal vascularity is beyond me

It's disgusting beyond an amazement factor for bodybuilding

comone man! nothing its like training feeling the pump and watching the vains pop out. and this pics are when they are rippet, pumped, and no water its not like they look this way all year around(exept coleman lol)

[Alex54321]

It's genetics I guess. Some guys get super shredded and not one vein in sight, others can be 15% BF still have good vascularity in their arms etc.

Some veins look good but too much and it take away from the physique - lets face it, this sport is all about building muscle, not veins

Mostly genetis just look at coleman vs cutler.. but training also play some part. training more forearms really helps on getting the veins on biceps bigger. bigger foreams needs more blood=bigger veins on biceps.

[Loctus]

Mostly genetis just look at coleman vs cutler.. but training also play some part. training more forearms really helps on getting the veins on biceps bigger. bigger foreams needs more blood=bigger veins on biceps.

Strong fukin broscience lmao

[Alex54321]

Strong fukin broscience lmao

hehe its from lee prist, but YES a bigger muscle needs more blood then a small muscle, so makes sens to me.

[ironpump22]

Jason Huh

fuuuuuu unreal!! goal for sure haha

[Zachary533]

but YES a bigger muscle needs more blood then a small muscle, so makes sens to me.

Oh really?

[wala]

Mostly genetis just look at coleman vs cutler.. but training also play some part. training more forearms really helps on getting the veins on biceps bigger. bigger foreams needs more blood=bigger veins on biceps.

If that were true, Jay Cutler would have biceps covered in veins and a few hose pipes on them too like Coleman.

[sexnews]

[flahexer]

Alberto Nunez

[JanesLastResort]

It's genetics I guess. Some guys get super shredded and not one vein in sight, others can be 15% BF still have good vascularity in their arms etc.

Well it's genetics to some degree, but we all have superficial veins! So technically if someone drops down to the very low end of single digit bf levels, (4-5% roughly) veins that run close to the surface must pop out (especially if there's a good amount of muscle mass under it). I assume the people who don't seem to have them are either not conditioned enough, or they're under developed in areas where they lack these veins. I honestly haven't seen anyone with cross striated glutes and a christmas tree that completely lacked veins!

[Loctus]

Alberto Nunez

Let's test my new idea...

That guy is natural. Srs. IFPA pro.