TIGER WOODS ARM SIZE


It has been written for a long time that I have a 17” arm or bicep, un pumped, using no drugs or supplements. This is true. It is not fat, but all muscle. I curl and press barbells every day. Steve Lillis once at the BCA show actually grabbed my arm with both hands, just to check it out to see if it is for real. It is. We have traveled, roomed together and swam in the same pool, so he can verify this. Some have asked if this is the secret to my power and how I set the break records.

It is not, a big arm is all for show. In fact, in a lot of sports it is a liability. Look at most of the arms you see in Tennis, Golf, Karate and Pool and they are slender. This type of arm has more flexibility and can move faster. When you begin to bulk up and build muscle like a body builder you lose that speed and range so vital in those sports. You get what they call being muscle bound.

I have pictures of Yo Sarah standing next to both Nicklaus and Palmer and they are the same height. If you hang around Golf a lot at big events, you see most are about 5-9 to 5-10", 170lbs with little chests and slender arms. The game is about creating speed, and large bulky muscles do not do this.

This is what happened to Johnny Miller in Golf who was very slender. He began chopping wood, building a house and bulked up and totally lost his swing and it put him out of the game. Faldo bulked up and his game went into decline right after that.

Palmer quit smoking, gained weight and his game tanked. That was always the joke out there, once AP stopped smoking, his game was smoked and here comes Fat Jack. Arnie’s power was in his big hands and forearms, Fat Jack was in his huge thighs, Tigers is now in his entire body.

Nobody has ever played pro golf with big muscular biceps before. It is easy to stay thin when you are a 20 yr old hard belly. When you get 35, you metabolism changes and it's real easy to gain weight, then bulk up and your entire body can change very fast. Along with that goes your entire former feel for the game.

The un trained arm, not obese is 12.5 to 13.0”, trained on no drugs or supplements un pumped 14.75”.

Tiger Woods has been working out with weights in the tour trailer for a long time and now has himself in the best physical condition of any one on tour. Naturally he wants to show off his new body and is wearing skin tight new shirts with the sleeves shortened 2” to show off his biceps. Yes, they look great. Many think he has gone too far and his arms are now too large for Golf. I agree with Miller on this. This may be a fatal error that takes him out early. Time will tell. A much smaller Korean just beat him bad in the final round of the 2009 PGA. This could mark the end of his reign and mark the beginning of his decline and I think it is because of the arms. Tiger is now 34, and at best he has another 5 or 6 years winning and at the top. Few have stayed on top for must longer than 7 or 8 years. They continue to win, but at a slower pace and then one day it just stops. I think what he just saw, was Tiger crossing the peak of his career and now beginning the down slide. It happens to all and age and time, spares no one from this fall.

The problem is when you begin getting that really big, nice bicep, it feels so good and powerful, it's like a drug, you want more and more until you cross the line.

It’s not that Tigers are so large, they are just muscular and fit with his entire body which is in great shape. His waist is the same size as Jack Nicklaus’s thigh’s when he was his age. Tiger has worked more on building strength and flexibility that just muscle bulk. He is very strong which does not hurt him with the driver.

So do you want a 16 or 17” arm, no, you want a muscular but flexible arm. Anything above 15” is just going to get you into trouble.

If you want power in pool, it is not in the arm. It is not in the bicep, or even in the forearm. It is all in the wrist, and that is where my true power comes from. The ability to bend the wrist a long way back, and then snap it forward with incredible speed in a whip like motion. That is where it is all at, in the small muscles and not in the large ones. I am moving the small ones first, and the big ones just follow along behind.

That is why I swing a 12 lb iron bar the length of a cue every day 100 times pretending I am breaking a rack with it. I do 100 over head masse strokes with it, to strengthen my fingers and to stretch my ligaments to extend my arm range for jump shots and masses. I have a 10 lb barbell at my desk and I work my wrist with it during the day, especially is something on my cpu is loading and I have to wait 30 seconds for it, I grab my barbell and go to work with it.

I work with weights and with balls and springs to strengthen my wrist and my fingers. Work on that area, and put more time in there, than on your biceps which I know attract the girls, but does nothing for you pool game.

Best Wishes,

Fast Larry Guninger