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brianmincher
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Halbert is not five eleven, and those other guys mentioned are all over 300 lbs bodyweight. Halbert is five eight or nine, Kenny Patterson (youngest to ever bench 700 @22 years old) is five foot six, Anthony Clark is five foot eight. Short guys can bench. We have less distance to push the bar. But Jesus Christ, give us something!!! We can't dunk a basketball, most of us can't run real fast, because we have to take more steps, most of us can't throw anything real well because of short levers. We usually can't deadlift much. So give the short guys their due on bench.
Hell, tall people have all the breaks in Basketball, Football, Baseball, getting dates, and so on. Cut a short guy some slack. This is one of the few athletic endeavors I have much of a chance to excell at. With some exceptions, you are limited to certain sports by body size and type. You are stuck with your height, but you can do a lot to manipulate your body type. Skinny people can put on muscle to become bigger people, heavy people can do tons of cardio and become smaller people, etc. . .
As B-fold says, anyone can overcome anything! There are exceptions, but without this attitude, you will never know whether you are the exception or not, because you never put the effort into it.
I am a terrible deadlifter, and a fairly good bench presser. It is rare to be good at both. But I work my ass off to become a better deadlifter. I switched to a sumo stance, and began doing a lot more hamstring work, and my deadlift went up 50 lbs. I may never hold a world record deadlifting, but I will deadlift more in a year than I am capable of right now. Work past your limitations. No whining, just get as strong as you can possibly be.
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Hell, tall people have all the breaks in Basketball, Football, Baseball, getting dates, and so on. Cut a short guy some slack. This is one of the few athletic endeavors I have much of a chance to excell at. With some exceptions, you are limited to certain sports by body size and type. You are stuck with your height, but you can do a lot to manipulate your body type. Skinny people can put on muscle to become bigger people, heavy people can do tons of cardio and become smaller people, etc. . .
As B-fold says, anyone can overcome anything! There are exceptions, but without this attitude, you will never know whether you are the exception or not, because you never put the effort into it.
I am a terrible deadlifter, and a fairly good bench presser. It is rare to be good at both. But I work my ass off to become a better deadlifter. I switched to a sumo stance, and began doing a lot more hamstring work, and my deadlift went up 50 lbs. I may never hold a world record deadlifting, but I will deadlift more in a year than I am capable of right now. Work past your limitations. No whining, just get as strong as you can possibly be.
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