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What do you mean by thin skin?

What are the benefits or attributes of thin skin and what does this say about fitness or heredity?

Thin skin is generally an indicator of low bodyfat content and allows developed muscle to stand out in bold relief. Muscle definition, delineation and striation are coveted bodybuilding qualities.

Thin skin is a sign of a healthy and fast metabolism and/or hard, disciplined training and eating.

I’m occasionally asked how I got my forearms so vascular, a better way to describe what I call thin skin. I started resistance exercise with hand grips when I was a little kid and have always worked forearms with the usual wrist curls and reverse curl supersets. I also have a predisposition to vascular extremities as my legs are vascular as well.

Consistent hard work and eating to be lean contribute to the cause… Go… DD

Dave Draper - Dave Draper Posted on December 15th, 2007 in Getting Started, Weight Training by Dave Draper