Because I've eaten my fair share of spinach, and my forearms aren't nearly as big...

In the past, I used to lift weights in order to strengthen my forearms following a bad carpal tunnel injury. I stopped a few months after my arms got better. Every now and then after too much computer usage (artist, so i do most everything at the computer) the soreness comes back but when I used to exercise my forearms would always get larger. I was always born with I guess rather large muscles in that part of my arm that expand then taper like Popeye but there's hardly any "mass", if that's the right word, in the bicep area.
(in fact i can barely flex the bicep unless i focus extremely hard on it.)

What kind of exercise or something should I do to get the forearms and bicep evenly sized and strong to take the pressure off of my shoulders?
Doug it's funny you mention push ups because I can barely get myself off the ground, and i used to be able to do 30-50 push ups!

I remember watching this movie when little (in 1989)... I am trying to search the details of this movie online but can't find any record what-so-ever, which is strange...

It was: a) black & white, b) in english, c) overall a comedy movie, d) the popeye character had strong forearms as in the cartoon...

Anyone has any info?

Thanks!
Thanks for the replies.. no it was not Robin William's movie... (I clearly remember that one). And like I said, it was not cartoon...

His arms Look Like Popeye the Sailor man
Like in this pic look at his ForeArms:
http://www.hiphopglobe.ch/images/Lil%20Wayne%20-%20We%20The%20Best.jpg

My neighbor Beulah got a hot tub from her insurance company for her bursitis which totally blew my mind and you would think they would have covered her scooter too- but no dice. Anyway, she invited me to come try out the hot tub and that night I learned two things: #1 the water intake port at the bottom of a standard hot tub is far too powerful to escape from when it gets ahold of your hair - so it is always best to swim with a buddy and avoid the bottom drain unless you don't mind having to forceably rip the hair from your skull in order to save yourself from drowning. and #2 is that swimming with the elderly can be especially hazardous because bengay and dentucream attack your sinus membranes and you could end up with a nasty infection and a post-neo-natal-nasal drip. While learning that painful lesson, my ear nose and throat doctor gave me a sterroidal cream to apply to my nostrils twice daily with a q-tip which worked beautifully but ......a nasty little side-effect they don't tell you about is that within six weeks I have packed on over 90 lbs of bulky iron rippling equine looking vein-laden muscle on virtually every surface on my body. It took me almost eight years of strict dieting and brutal cardio sessions on the stairmaster to drop all that bulk.
Well apparently I didn't learn my lesson well enough the first time because i bumped into Beulah at Hobby Lobby last week and (long story short) my fingers were all wrinkly before I remembered the lessons I had learned once before - now sure as death and taxes i ended up with sinusitis AGAIN and I was prescribed the sterroidal cream AGAIN and so far I have packed on 42lbs of lean rip but since I was struck in the spine recently by a ninja assassin's throwing star and since I am temporarily in a wheelchair - all 42 lbs of new muscle went to my forearms. I look like popeye if popeye was a semi-crippled ninja tee ball coach from the future and now I am thinking maybe I should lower the dose to once daily before I turn into a permanently top heavy semi-crippled ninja from the future and end up walking inverted like a baby circus ape on a crystal meth bender.

I just don't see how his forearms could be so freakishly huge!

i was told if i eat spinach i would become big and strong so i did for 6 months but the only muscles that have grown are my forearms. now i look like popeye.
also my voice is getting croaky

My muscle size and strength is unbalanced. My biceps is bigger than I expected after two years of training, but it looks too round, thin, and hump-like. The space between it and my forearm doesn't look very muscular at all. I've tried using several different techniques, but I've been stuck like this for a long time.

My forearms are weirdly shaped as well. When my hand is facing downwards, it looks great, almost like Popeye's arms. I've been complimented since I was a kid because of it. When my hand is turned upward, it looks very thin. The sides of my forearm are unspectacular in any case.

Even my shoulders are unbalanced. The top is great, but when I let my arms rest they don't look as wide or thick as I want them to be.

What could I be doing wrong, and how can I do better?
PS. Is it possible to get a stronger grip using dumbbells?

What is the best book fro building strength and muscle mass and looking impressive? I want bigger traps and lats as well s lower back, glutes hamstrings and basically the whole bakcside. As well as powerfull shoulders and chest and popeye forearms. Also I powerfull core. What is the best all aorund strength and muscle book. I need quality info to make sure I am not wasting time.
A BOOK!!!!! A BOOK!!!!
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Spinach does not really explain why your forearms would be freakishly huge. Nor does just being strong... I mean, usually someone's biceps are what is bulked up in strong men... maybe the illustrator was just high on "spinach" or something... who knows...

I am not yet weight lifting. At present, all I do is walk for an hour in the morning, and do 45 minutes on a stationery bicycle in the evening. On my job, I'm pretty active (delivery driver/courier).

I'm a female, and I know that females have to approach bodybuilding somewhat differently from men in order to achieve any real muscle growth. But I'm yet ignorant as to how.

I'm specifically interested in getting biger forearms. Even if it looks freekish, like popeye. LOL! Lesser priorities are to build thigh muscles, calf muscles.

Any legitimate advice is appreciated. Thanks.
I forgot to add, I will be working out in a pretty good gym.

Today in the weight room at my high school, a friend of mine, who is a freshman whose three rep bench is 195 pounds, told me that eats a lot of protein foods to build muscle and he eats spinach because they make your forearms grow. Is this true?

Please don't make any smart-ass Popeye remarks.

I have a condition that enables me to gain muscle very quickly and easily. You might think this sounds great, but it's actually a real pain. If I do anything repetitive for too long or too often the muscles I use for that task noticeably grow. My main concern is my forearm strength due to masturbation. I have tried switching hands between sessions but both forearms are huge already and I bear a close resemblance to Popeye. How can I continue to masturbate without using my arms?

A friend of mine said there was a Rap Video (maybe 2 yrs ago) where the guy has huge popeye-like forearms and moves them all around in a funny way- does anybody know what this old video is ?