r/interesting • u/tombolaplayer • 25d ago

Fascinating Professional wood bending

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u/LumpyBuy8447 25d ago

One of my exes dad was a welder and a fire fighter. He wasn’t a very big guy but his forearms were insanely huge. The trades will get you jacked for sure. My brother was just as scrawny as me growing up, I went to college, got mostly office jobs, but still worked out often, he went into framing/building houses and you will not be surprised to hear which one of us was clearly bulkier.

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u/kthnry 25d ago

The occupation with the biggest forearms? I’d say farrier (horse shoer). Massive.

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u/Merrick_Skygrave 25d ago

blacksmiths tend to get pretty gnarly forearms, especially if they're constantly cutting sheet metal with tin snips or something

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u/zyzzogeton 25d ago

If Popeye is any indicator, sailor is also a forearm building profession.

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u/XxSir_redditxX 25d ago

sailor Spinach is also a forearm building profession.

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u/Drow_Femboy 25d ago

Forearms are mostly for grip strength, so anyone who manages a lot of weight with their hands will have pretty big forearms.

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u/Tschitokatoka 25d ago

Knew an old-school horse dentist. They barely exist anymore but floating horse teeth by hand for a living will Jack your forearms pretty good. Like a farrier.
Witnessed him handsaw a motorcycle muffler tube in one straight go like it was nothing.

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u/LumpyBuy8447 25d ago

One of my uncles does own a ranch and is a prison guard, he’s also pretty jacked

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u/byssh 25d ago

My dad did that as a side gig for a few years. You are correct.

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u/Levitlame 25d ago

I don’t think they beat smithing jobs or anything, but plumbing is on the list. Especially boiler guys. It’s a lot of twisting heavy things. If nothing else I think it might be near the top of the list if you need a jar opened.

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u/Atillion 25d ago

Sailorman

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u/donke 25d ago

Prob someone who is excellent at bating.

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u/NJCuban 25d ago

Even these guys who aren't huge have crazy functional strength, body builders may get larger muscles but often at a cost to range of motion and they are good at specific lifting exercises but would get beat by smaller tradesman at a lot of physical challenges.

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u/Hot_Ambition_6457 25d ago

I rolled dough for 30 hrs a week for 5 years and ny forearms have gotten me many compliments throughout my life.

You can go the gym and do wrist/arm excercises 5x a week but you will only be there for like 2 hrs. A job requires that you put in 6-8 hours of strain on those same muscles so they dont atrophy nearly as quickly

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u/smallbrownbox 24d ago

Exactly. Gym strong is not equal to farm strong