So I am a beginner (male) in the gym and honestly I am feeling really good. 2 Months ago I started my cable lat pulldown at about 29 kg and was exhausted mid set 2 and went down with the weight.

Now my warm up is basically 35 kg and now I am at 47 kg.

Almost all exercises I increased my weight by a lot and while I don’t really notice physical difference besides my body fat vanishing and my strength going up by numbers I am still excited and will keep going on.

I am 80 kg and 175 cm tall, my goal is losing more fat and gaining a bit more muscles but in general I’d say my goal is about 72-74 kg because I want to start climbing again soon.

Now my question of this topic is something else that makes me wonder. My wrists and fingers are so small, I mean really small for a male. I work as a nurse and I use size “S” in germany gloves.

I don’t want to but even if I would want to can I actually become a Hulk? Like is that even possible? It seems I would look really weird if I had huge muscles because of how small my wrist, fingers and my head is. It would look so hilarious.

My goal isn’t to become bulky anyways but I am just wondering what if it was my goal? Would that be possible? I seem to have very skinny bones.

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    2•3 days ago

    A lot of what people think of as just being bone includes a lot of connective tissue, and small muscles.

    Look at an x ray of a hand. https://radiopaedia.org/articles/hand-radiograph-an-approach

    All of that which is not bone can expand, and probably will if you keep rock climbing. I used to take medium gloves as a teenager, grown to my full height, and after close to 20 years of judo on and off there’s no way I’m getting my hands in anything smaller than an XL, and even that’s a squeeze.

    The same is true of your wrist, there’s a bunch of tendons and small muscles that run down the palm side of your wrist and they can get bigger and also your back. The shoulder blades might be bone but they just kind of float there and expand apart as you get stronger and bigger.

    What you can’t do, without surgery, is get taller, and your fingers can’t get longer, but yeah, everything you’re talking about could get thicker with enough training. There are genetic limits on how big you can get, but as someone relatively untrained you’ll be very far from them