Hello LL community,
I finally found a community that understands the pain of feeling short most of their life.
For me it’s quite different, I was mostly the tall kid growing up from elementary all the way to the beginning of high school. What reinforced this belief is when my doctor showed my growth chart and she told me I was trending to hit 6’0, with a potential height of 6’1.
I would think my great trend in height is due to 3 things when I was a kid:
1. was playing outside a lot, soccer
2. my mom fed me well, including breakfast
3. Genetics, my dad is 5’9 1/2 (my dad side has a couple 6 footer nephews) and my mom is 5’6
I was optimistic and hopeful that I’ll be at least 6 feet tall.
I started to realize that I wasn’t getting any taller when in mid-high school, others grew taller than me.
I thought that I’d catch up. But that didn’t happen after I graduated high school.
I feel what contributed to missing my potential height is:
1. spending most of my high school days/summers/nights gaming - which I lacked sleep and didn’t eat routinely
2. I also stressed a lot from school, assignments, exams
3. My mom stopped serving breakfast, I skipped breakfast most of my high school years
4. I didn’t exercise routinely, however, I played street hockey in high school. I wanted to go beyond the street by playing ice hockey in high school, but ice hockey was not affordable at the time. My sister signed me up in basketball when I first entered high school because of my height. But I lacked interest in basketball. And I was stuck being on the computer most of my high school life.
When I was 21, I checked my plates with my doctor, and they have closed. And to this day, I remember my doctor reviewing my growth chart, it was like looking at a bad stock, it was trending up to 6’0 - 6’1 but it plummeted down to 5’9.
Forever.
And it’s hard to accept that I’m standing at 5’9 1/2, and I’ve been this height, and now 30 years old.
When people ask me how tall I am, I tell them I’m 5’10 and they don't second guess it.
I always wanted to be taller than my dad, and my dad wanted me to be taller than him.
Also, my mother, whenever she remembers meeting my dad for the first time, she emphasized how tall and handsome he was.
And I’m also hearing from people when I grew up, telling me “you’re pretty tall”. Now I don’t hear this anymore.
What stuck with me was this internal fixation of being taller, because I was becoming or expecting to become 6 feet tall.
I’m athletically built and competitive. But I didn’t grow up or surround myself with athletes.
However, over time, I started admiring how athletes think, look, and work (especially swimmers during the 2008 Bejing Olympics), and 98% of them are 6 feet and above. I too want to become just like them down to the height.
I don’t feel like I feel or look like an athlete.
I sometimes look at myself in the mirror and tiptoe to see how a few inches makes me feel better and fulfilled on how I could have been if I have taken myself better in my high school/college years.
Environment is key to becoming taller, and I had the genetics to do it. But I wasted that opportunity.
Now I work at a business office and train at a boxing gym. And a couple of my office mates and gym partners are 6 footers, well built, well-dressed gentleman, and it sucks that I have to look up to them when we talk. I feel a mixture of sadness and mild jealousy that I could have been just like them, I feel like a kid talking up to them instead of speaking eye to eye.
Especially for business. I feel business gets better when I’m 6’0 feet tall.
Looking back, I didn’t take care of myself, and I want a second chance in life to take care of my self physically, fulfil my potential height, and feel like my best self.
I have this obsession in reaching what my body is capable of, being a great athlete, and being my best self in this lifetime. Because we only live once.
I’m looking at the LL, and I can hit 3 inches via femurs making me 6’0 (expected height when I was growing).
And I can hit 2 inches via tibias, making me 6’1 to 6’2, which will hit my ideal and potential height.
Specifics:
Height: 5’9 1/2
Chest: 39 chest (broad shoulders)
Wingspan: 5’9 at 71.2"
The only concerns I have is:
1. proportions with my arms, since my wingspan is proportional to my height
2. movement for cardio (running, swimming, boxing)
3. I love Thai boxing, and we use our legs to strike opponents and vice versa
Past fracture experience with arm:
I had an arm fracture before, and I used to be strong gripping with my right hand. But after the fracture, it’s not as strong anymore. I’m curious how strong my femurs and tibias will be after 1-2 years of healing from post-op.
This thread will be my journey to getting LL and below is the goal to make it happen.
Right now, what is stopping me from doing this is money, so I’m saving up to make this happen. In the meantime, I’ll be training to be physically fit (sleep, nutrition, cardio) and saving money to do this operation.
This will take about 2 - 3 years, and you never know, I may change my mind, but for now, I'm set to do this.
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Topic: My Goal - 5'9 to 6'0 and Above (Read 844 times)