As stated in the title above, I am an individual of height neurosis/dysphoria. Of course, that is why I'm here. However, my experiences of my environment has pushed my mindset to that extent - which had me down for some of the things I couldn't do because of my height. (The first being riding that roller coaster when I was ten, and seeing my schoolmates have a blast on it without me.)
My dad won a lot of competitions for strength. Even though we are of the same height, he would rank first on bench, squats, dead lifts, and arm wrestling. While I am his son, I resemble a lot of him, but I am fairly weak. Although, seeing him a week ago, he told me he was exactly like me, and all he had to do was work for it.
So what do I do? I started lifting for the first time, and results were quick:
I got from lifting a 10-15 pound dumbbells to 55 in two weeks. I beat 6 out of the eight heavylifters in my gym at arm wrestling. I know that arm wrestling doesn't determine much in terms of overall strength, but height doesn't determine much in overall success. I'm not genetically gifted, but I worked pretty damn hard.
I remember in 6th grade, I tried everything to grow, so I could dunk a ten foot rim. Even to this day, I wish I could grow to jump high and dunk, soaring in freedom that I felt has been lost.
However, I found out recently on how CLL can vastly affect your athletic ability. I was going to do what apotheosis/sysop did on MakeMeTaller, but we all know how that turned out. He even said that he would "post dunk videos" but that is never going to happen.
Last night, I came across certain articles about a man named Brandon Todd. He can dunk, but he's 5"5 (167cm). I didn't think this was real, but people below 5"9 are able to participate in dunk competitions.
So I did some thinking, either to lose the athletic ability and experience the norm, or be something unreal.
Since I am not going to do CLL for many years to come, I am going to use that time to reach those parameters along with other areas as well. Yes, it's highly unlikely I will achieve it, but like LL, you have to see what your body does.
Once that goal has been reached, I will grant the opportunity for someone of my pick to take my position of lengthening, because I won't be able to maintain that goal once lengthened.
However, I made this topic so that if some of you have certain goals, post your progress here for open criticism and support. If you are not doing it, there's plenty such as talent, finance (For LL or not), relationships, etc.
