The ability to perform pull-ups and deadlifts confers significant benefits to life skills, even though biceps and triceps are not the most functional muscles.

“so so in some ways your bodybuilding training much more mirrors functional training what I would have expected yeah absolutely but I mean I think now let me just play devil's advocate for a moment how much of that is your genetics do you just genetically think you have big muscles in your arms and and that's why you can get away with this look I think if I was to look at my parents like my dad is freakishly muscular for somebody that doesn't do anything in the gym he like grew up I guess being in very like laborous type jobs so like he's always been extremely lean uh and I think he has short um humorous like I do so I guess it kind of creates this illusion of more muscle it's easier to grow it looks you know if you think about a long muscle it's a lot more muscle you've got to grow to make it look big so um I think just my the way that I'm put together probably has assisted in some ways but that's not to say that it's not possible for other people as well”