How to determine your genetic or natural muscular potential
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Use a scale to find your body weight
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Measure your wrist and ankle circumference
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Measure your height
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Estimate or measure your body fat percentage.
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Enter this data into one of the calculators listed below.
FFMI Calculator: calculate your genetic muscular potential
- MennoHenselmans.com: FFMI Calculator – calculate your genetic muscular potential
- LeanGains: Maximum Muscular Potential of Drug-Free Athletes (Updated Dec 31st)
- LeanGains: What’s My Genetic Muscular Potential?
- BodyRecomposition.com: Four Models for Genetic Muscular Potential
- Untapped: Partial reps for massive arms? Study – 20% greater gains
- TDEE Calculator
The easiest way is to use an FFMI Calculator, which can be found here:
Genetic Muscular Potential
This is dependent on several factors, but can be estimated with the calculators listed here.
Genetic muscular potential is an estimate of how much muscle you can build naturally (without steroids) based on several factors.
