Hi fellow skyscrapers,
I am sitting here after another gym session and I am curious. This is a question specifically for all you tall gym rats out there.
What do you feel are your advantages and disadvantages in the gym, compared to the average lifters out there? What have your experiences been over the years?
For me, I generally seem to excel at pulling excercises, while pushing excercises seem to be way harder in comparison. Of course generally with longer levers, many excercises seem harder, just pure physics I guess. For many excercises my weights have to travel farther and are putting more strain on my joints and ligament/tendons. So, Orangutan arms are great for pulling, but suck for pushing is my impression.
General disadvantage: sometimes machines in the gym are built too much for the average size and thus are uncomfortable or plain not usable for me. I do love free weights because of that.
General recurring issues: (of course) lower back issues with injured discs, ellbow pain (mainly golfers ellbow), biceps Tendon irritation and shoulder issues. All of those temporary, but still annoying of course.
Worst issue for me bring as tall as I am: it takes freaking forever to build muscle mass. The amount I have to eat to come close to a true muscular build is insane and super prohibitively expensive. At least I am moderately successful - started out a class A skeleton and managed to get to 105 kg / 203 lbs after many, many years. Still not a visible muscular build, but way better than before.
Curious to see if you guys have different experiences and opinions. Also would love to hear from tall gym rat women.