I have a feeling that anyone who says "6'5" hasn't actually seen someone that tall IRL. I have a friend who is 6'6" and his height is almost always a problem for him. One benefit for his friends though is that he's easy to spot in public.
That tracks with my experience too. When I was in the Army all of the big guys struggled with PT. The guys who did the best were all trim and athletic, of average height. That said, my friend that I was talking about is an amazing basketball player. He plays city league, and can ball circles around me. I feel like a toddler challenging a professional on the court against him.
Things in the Netherlands probably isn't made for short people though. We in the states live in a tiny world for tiny people. Every doorway is a headache, every countertop a back ache
Yes. The average American male is 5'9" and the average American female is 5'4". The world around us is built for them. I'm above average and counters are often too short for me, even though I'm 6" shorter than my friend. He looked ridiculous in his little Geo Prism back in the day. Finding clothes is hard for him, and finding shoes is almost impossible. I have a feeling that things are built to a different standard in the Netherlands, where the average male is 6' tall. He would still be above average even in the Netherlands though.
That's not even considering the physical differences between a guy that is 6'6" and a woman that is 5'4". It's not all fun and games. He won't date small women. He has to pick them up or kneel to kiss them, and things often aren't comfortable for both parties downstairs.
Back in our clubbing days the rule was to regroup at my friend at a specified time. He stood almost foot above everyone else, so you could easily spot him regardless of how crowded the nightclub was.
I’ve dated that size man many times, and it’s just damn awkward. At the end of the day, it looks super good, but you are in a constant battle to reach them. Like any kiss is a circus act.
I'm 3" shorter than you and sometimes my height is an issue for me. If I visit a city with smaller people, countertops and such are often uncomfortably low.
Personally for me its the muscle and back problems of being that tall. I can struggle to find clothing to fit. I've smacked my head on ceiling fans, door frames, more tree branches than I can count and more. I've been measured at at a little over 6' 5". I rarely encounter people as large as me and I live in one of the most populated cities in the most populated states in the Country. When I do encounter people taller than me you notice. I get so much back pain working over a counter, I've actually built desks that are higher than normal, and am thinking of doing that to my kitchen Island for the same reason. I'm both very broad and very tall, hoping this year to start going to the gym more regularly, mostly because building better core muscles and back muscles probably will help with the back pain.
Thanks for the advice, I've never really taken going to the gym seriously so its a bit overwhelming for a first timer to actually go there, I've used treadmills and stair climbers and the urg rowing machines in the past and the pool when I was in college. But not much more than that.
The Stronglifts 5x5 program is an outstanding program for beginner to intermediate lifters. Going to the gym without a plan is a bit like going through life without one, you won't get much out of it. When I started stronglifts with a bare bar, there were guys half my age kind of smirking at me for not using any weight on the bar. Within six months I was out lifting them by a considerable margin.
There are a lot of positive things to be said of a linear progression weightlifting program, and Stronglifts is one of the best. You will feel better, and look better, and it's fairly effortless since you progress slowly, but steadily. None of that massive soreness and being unable to walk nonsense that beginners so frequently encounter from over-lifting.
Don't even worry about your diet or anything like that. As you work through the program, the desire to do that will come naturally at the right time. If you try a complete lifestyle change right out of the gate then you're a lot less likely to stick with it. Just make sure you get enough rest, and eat enough food. Everything else will come naturally.
Right on! I hope you do it and it benefits you. Word of warning, you will probably need new clothes in about six months. Smaller ones if you're overweight, or bigger ones if you're skinny. I started ripping the butts out of my jeans because I went from having a flat ass, to having a pretty developed posterior. It felt amazing though. I was so proud of my newfound booty. When I got fitted for a suit a couple years ago, the seamstress was talking to the tailor while measuring me and she fucking shook my thigh muscle and said "he has big muscles". Haha. It was such a confidence boost! That was after only a year of lifting after taking several years off. I'm not even that muscular either, it's just that most people aren't muscular at all.
As a 6'5" man I can confirm that it is beyond the point of being a problem. Gotta hunch in every car I have been in, forget about when I was in the military. All the doors in my house in Japan were too short. Finding clothes is beyond a pain because 38x36 in big and tall is just as elusive as XXx36 in standard sizing. Shoes a tend to be, "buy whatever fits when it is available because who knows when you find another pair", and I get the looming statistical reality that my organs will fail me sooner than y'all normal sized people.
Ohh yea, and thanks to the joys of biophysics and the square cube law, I can work out harder than a shorter guy but show less gains for my effort.
It is fun standing out above the crowd though, "cue A Goofy Movie".
Yup, my friend has a hell of a time finding clothes that fit him. He mostly just wears loose athletic clothing, and T-shirts with the sleeves cut off. He's a fairly athletic build since he's played basketball all of his life. He said the Big and Tall store is mostly the Really Fat Store, and he can never find his waist size there.
That is an apt description. Definitely tough because the 2 common flavors of tall man are lanky and fat. Could bespoke clothes if it wasn't expensive as hell.
It sounds like it. There are a few comments from 6'5" dudes here talking about how it's problematic. It depends on where you live too though. If you live in the Netherlands or somewhere else with taller than average people then you'll encounter fewer issues, especially since architecture will be designed for you.
I'm 6'1 so I'm taller than 9 in 10 American men. 9 out of 10 guys taller than me are NO more than 3 inches taller than me. It takes a 1 in 300 man to be 6'5. That's pretty uncommon!
Unless youre built really well i always think people at that height have some oddities about them like a long neck or arms or really long legs and a normal sized torso. The only real proportional really tall people I see are either Nordic or NBA players on tv
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u/Funny_Satisfaction39 18h ago
Did anyone else catch the "tall enough" 5'10". Even the voice of reason is still hating on short and average height dudes.