Vein in Your Bicep

shreddedkid11 · 07-18-2007, 01:16 PM

my question is how to get that sick looking vein running through your biceps. my biceps are 15 1/2 inches but no vein. do i have to decrease my bodyfat or just keep training. i am 6'1 185 lbs. thanks

ReaperX · 07-18-2007, 01:36 PM

Extremely low bodyfat and I believe it is also too genetic.

gdbear65 · 07-18-2007, 01:41 PM

bf and maybe genetics - I didn't think mine would ever show, but it's beginning to now that my bf is below 15%. I also have a nice peak

Jstrong20 · 07-18-2007, 01:41 PM

Its genetic. I get spider veins on my biceps but not the large one up the middle that your talking of.

ITHURTZ · 07-18-2007, 03:30 PM

When I am 230lbs my bicep vein isnt that great, I am 210lbs now and its very noticable. last summer when I was 200lbs it was like a 1/4 bar sticking out when I was curling, was awesome. Id vote for bf

lazerss9 · 07-19-2007, 07:11 PM

i dont think im very genetically gifted for bodybuilding, but i have a low bf and my vein only shows when im working my biceps.

thesinner · 07-19-2007, 07:17 PM

I have 3-D veins going up my forearms, through the biceps and all the way to the delts. Both my parents and a few other close relatives have thick,3-D veins in the crook of their arms and by their wrist. I'm also a fairly low bf%.

Factors that increase vascularity are total blood volume, bodyfat, genetics, and temperature (if it's really cold, you're veins will disappear.).

nycste · 07-19-2007, 08:36 PM

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Originally Posted by thesinner

I have 3-D veins going up my forearms, through the biceps and all the way to the delts. Both my parents and a few other close relatives have thick,3-D veins in the crook of their arms and by their wrist. I'm also a fairly low bf%.

Factors that increase vascularity are total blood volume, bodyfat, genetics, and temperature (if it's really cold, you're veins will disappear.).

good advice but your pecker also dissappears in the cold u must not forget to warn people

greenwing7 · 07-19-2007, 09:42 PM

I think a lot of it has to do with the type of activities that you did, I have a good one in my right arm from tennis and my left arm, which wasn't worked as well has more smaller ones but not the ginormeous one down the side,

thesinner · 07-20-2007, 05:24 AM

Any and all flowing fluids are given a reynolds number (Re). This is a dimensionless number that tells you if the flow is turbulent, laminar, or 'transition' (somewhere between the two). The human body is a kick-ass work of biologic ingeniuty, and has the ability to 'adapt'. When the flow rate of blood increases, your veins will dialate in attempt to stay within a certain range of Reynolds numbers.

Vascularity is strictly proportional to the rate of blood flow to that particular region of the body. The various methods mentioned above are ways of going about this particular increase in flow.

j0sh710 · 07-22-2007, 09:46 PM

deffinately lower body fat and it should be there, but maybe genetics.

bombBoogie · 07-22-2007, 10:05 PM

For me atleast is body fat, when I started to drop excess chub, more viens are more visible.

greenwing7 · 07-22-2007, 10:34 PM

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Originally Posted by thesinner

When the flow rate of blood increases, your veins will dialate in attempt to stay within a certain range of Reynolds numbers.Vascularity is strictly proportional to the rate of blood flow to that particular region of the body.

so if you work out your biceps and forearms more frequently and have a lowered body fat your veins will show more because A. they have increased blood flow and will dialate to keep up with demand and B. you have a lower bf% so you can see whats under your skin

meowmeow · 07-22-2007, 11:17 PM

IGF-1
Tren
Eq

...can all bring out vascularity...

thesinner · 07-23-2007, 05:22 AM

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Originally Posted by greenwing7

so if you work out your biceps and forearms more frequently and have a lowered body fat your veins will show more because A. they have increased blood flow and will dialate to keep up with demand and B. you have a lower bf% so you can see whats under your skin

Not necessarily more frequently (maybe more intensely would be a better word), and results will vary upon users. Afterall, genetics is a factor to this equation.

skull · 07-23-2007, 07:04 AM

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Originally Posted by meowmeow

IGF-1
Tren
Eq

...can all bring out vascularity...

Also---DNP--LR3--PGF

addijhaq · 07-25-2007, 03:02 PM

bf plays a big part, but if your predisposed to NOT losing fat on your arms quickly, which is mighty hard, OR if you just have thinner veins that others... you will not see them...

i will say however, that blood pressure and vasodilation play a huge role in the vein getting larger... i've seen and i've experienced a large increase in my vascularity just due to preworkout supps... heavy and SLOW resistence over the period of months, ie, heavy concentration curls... and carb loading before workouts... doing those consistently over the period of months have gradually increased my vein size...

however i don't feel that TOTAL bf plays a huge role, as i have a good amt of bf around my mid section, yet when i kick up my bicep routine, or any routine involving free weights where my forearm is under alot of contraction (heavy n tight grip) i'm like a spiderweb, roadmap, whatever u wanna call it.. that coupled with the fact that i do NOT have much bf AROUND my bicep... i also used to have the veins that run up the pubic bone... but... thanks to a lil bit too much protein, not enough cardio and a lackluster ab routine... bye bye veins... : ) however, once again i wasn't super thin...