How to Measure Your Body: Bicep Around

Accurate bicep measurements play a vital role in determining whether a shirt is going to look and feel good on you or not. Apart from lowering visual appeal with tension lines or billowy arms, a shirt with the wrong bicep measurements may also restrict your movement and efficiency. 

Thus, to save you from the hassles of buying and returning an ill-fitting shirt, today we're going to pen down the right and easiest way to measure your biceps. Keep reading! 

How to measure your body: Bicep around

1. Preparation

To get started, find a cloth measuring tape or a piece of string or ribbon. If possible, ask someone to assist you so there would be no chance of inaccuracy. Wear a thin T-shirt or no upper body garment at all to avoid unnecessary bulk. 

Stand in your most natural posture while lying your arms free on the sides, without flexing your biceps. Remember that you'd need to get measurements of your most natural bicep circumference.

• Measure the bicep

Wrap the cloth tape, ribbon, or string around the widest point of your bicep. It's the area two to three inches below your armpit. Make sure that the tape is not wrapped around too tightly to bite into the skin. 

Neither should it be too loose to hang around. Instead, the tape should be wrapped around your bicep snugly, while providing enough room for movement. A simple rule here is that wrap the tape around your bicep, slip in one finger, and note the measurement. 

• Note the measurements

Note down the measurements and add a half-centimeter or quarter-inch to it for flexibility. If you are using a string or ribbon to measure, mark when the other end of the ribbon meets the starting end and measure the distance between them. 

Repeat the same procedure for your other bicep since, in most people, the bicep size is different for either arm. However, you can go with the measurement of the larger bicep while getting your shirt customized or purchasing it off the rack. 

Mistakes to avoid

• If you're not comfortable giving your measurement on bare skin, always opt for a thin t-shirt instead of a full-sleeve one. 
• If you are a gym enthusiast, make sure you are measuring your bicep around right after working out. The reason for doing so is that your biceps grow slightly larger after pumping out. 
• Do not get a shirt after measuring just one of your biceps. Remember that you always need to measure both arms and go with the larger measurements. 

FAQs

No, you should always measure your relaxed bicep. 

Always measure your bicep after working out to count for the pumped-up variations.