How long are your femurs and how tall are you? what exactly is a short femur or a long femur?
Femur: 16.5"
Height: 5’10"
23%
edit: this post was completely editted, it originally had to do with femur and height and their relation to squat, but i realized it’s a little dumb because it varies for everyone because of experience and shit
edit2: measure your femur by sitting in a chair, making the thigh parallel to the floor, measuring from hip socket to end of knee cap. -Thank you Fletch
I don’t even…
Whats a femur?
5’4", 22".
I have super long femurs it helps me squat more though so its all good!
ok so how does one measure a femur?
[quote]StrengthDawg wrote:
ok so how does one measure a femur?[/quote]
measure your femur by putting a tape measure right up in between yer nuts and yer thigh, and measure it down to the middle of your knee cap
Since this is for science I’ll play along 
I got a 15" femur as measured by the method you’ve described. I’m 6’ 1/2 way down the ol quads are 25.5" cold. it’s really all about the girth man…
Would you say you have short femurs? What exactly is a proportionate femur?
[quote]XArena wrote:
Would you say you have short femurs? What exactly is a proportionate femur?[/quote]
IDK or really care, Not like I can do anything about it… correction… I can and do build up my leg muscles so that in the end they are GTg. Think about it. Take a 6’ tall man with 12" quads. his legs look long as shit and twig like. Now take a guy with 30" quads. He looks like a bulldog.
edit* - this is assuming a guy who lifts and has muscular wheels… not some fat fuck with big ol sloppy thighs
This is the same with guys who bitch about having “long arms”, NO you gotta SHORT CHEST! I guarantee you that if one would get some muscle on the ol skeleton and they’ll’ll forget all about limb lengths. ( I’m not saying YOU are a skeleton btw.)
[quote]StrengthDawg wrote:
[quote]XArena wrote:
Would you say you have short femurs? What exactly is a proportionate femur?[/quote]
IDK or really care, Not like I can do anything about it… correction… I can and do build up my leg muscles so that in the end they are GTg. Think about it. Take a 6’ tall man with 12" quads. his legs look long as shit and twig like. Now take a guy with 30" quads. He looks like a bulldog.
edit* - this is assuming a guy who lifts and has muscular wheels… not some fat fuck with big ol sloppy thighs
This is the same with guys who bitch about having “long arms”, NO you gotta SHORT CHEST! I guarantee you that if one would get some muscle on the ol skeleton and they’ll’ll forget all about limb lengths. ( I’m not saying YOU are a skeleton btw.)
[/quote]
I understand you don’t care, but people always complain about having long/short limbs, but i just wanna know what is long or short?
Also having good thoracic(or however its spelt) mobility will make yer arms seem shorter during bench
[quote]tajacks2 wrote:
5’4", 22".
I have super long femurs it helps me squat more though so its all good![/quote]
Long femurs would seem to be a mechanical disadvantage.
[quote]XArena wrote:
[quote]StrengthDawg wrote:
[quote]XArena wrote:
Would you say you have short femurs? What exactly is a proportionate femur?[/quote]
IDK or really care, Not like I can do anything about it… correction… I can and do build up my leg muscles so that in the end they are GTg. Think about it. Take a 6’ tall man with 12" quads. his legs look long as shit and twig like. Now take a guy with 30" quads. He looks like a bulldog.
edit* - this is assuming a guy who lifts and has muscular wheels… not some fat fuck with big ol sloppy thighs
This is the same with guys who bitch about having “long arms”, NO you gotta SHORT CHEST! I guarantee you that if one would get some muscle on the ol skeleton and they’ll’ll forget all about limb lengths. ( I’m not saying YOU are a skeleton btw.)
[/quote]
I understand you don’t care, but people always complain about having long/short limbs, but i just wanna know what is long or short?
Also having good thoracic(or however its spelt) mobility will make yer arms seem shorter during bench[/quote]
I’ll start by saying IDK what would be classified as long or short but I will say that overwhelmingly people use excuses like these as a crutch for sucking at something. Now my totally unscientific methods of determining long or short arms is this. If you can stand erect and scratch your knee caps you might have long arms. If you are 5’-2" and weigh 300# your arms aren’t short because your chest sticks out there making it seem like you have short arms. If a guy looks like a Human T-Rex though, he might have short arms. I have seen none of these examples in any gym.
I have seen a fat midget once and his rom for bench must have been 2". I bet he could press 3x body weight haha, which would be awesome!
I’m interested because it does in part affect the stances and styles one would be most comfortable using and the type of assistance.
So I’ll go ahead and bite:
between 14 and 14.5; I’m 5’10"
Close to 1/5 of my height
Now does anyone know what the length of the femur should be using the Golden Ratio?
[quote]StrengthDawg wrote:
[quote]XArena wrote:
[quote]StrengthDawg wrote:
[quote]XArena wrote:
Would you say you have short femurs? What exactly is a proportionate femur?[/quote]
IDK or really care, Not like I can do anything about it… correction… I can and do build up my leg muscles so that in the end they are GTg. Think about it. Take a 6’ tall man with 12" quads. his legs look long as shit and twig like. Now take a guy with 30" quads. He looks like a bulldog.
edit* - this is assuming a guy who lifts and has muscular wheels… not some fat fuck with big ol sloppy thighs
This is the same with guys who bitch about having “long arms”, NO you gotta SHORT CHEST! I guarantee you that if one would get some muscle on the ol skeleton and they’ll’ll forget all about limb lengths. ( I’m not saying YOU are a skeleton btw.)
[/quote]
I understand you don’t care, but people always complain about having long/short limbs, but i just wanna know what is long or short?
Also having good thoracic(or however its spelt) mobility will make yer arms seem shorter during bench[/quote]
I’ll start by saying IDK what would be classified as long or short but I will say that overwhelmingly people use excuses like these as a crutch for sucking at something. Now my totally unscientific methods of determining long or short arms is this. If you can stand erect and scratch your knee caps you might have long arms. If you are 5’-2" and weigh 300# your arms aren’t short because your chest sticks out there making it seem like you have short arms. If a guy looks like a Human T-Rex though, he might have short arms. I have seen none of these examples in any gym.
I have seen a fat midget once and his rom for bench must have been 2". I bet he could press 3x body weight haha, which would be awesome![/quote]
That last part made me lol. ahaha. I think you have long arms if the top of your hip meets your elbow when standing erect with arms by your sides.
[quote]Fletch1986 wrote:
I’m interested because it does in part affect the stances and styles one would be most comfortable using and the type of assistance.
So I’ll go ahead and bite:
between 14 and 14.5; I’m 5’10"
Close to 1/5 of my height
Now does anyone know what the length of the femur should be using the Golden Ratio?
[/quote]
very similar to me.
What squat stance would you say is best with 14" femurs when you are 5’10" ? I feel as if a fairly narrow stance (as in a little narrower than shoulder width) is pretty good.
Ok I see now, average from what I’ve seen is 25-27%.
I used to go pretty wide, but issues made me use a narrower stance so I would say moderate. I go conventional for deads.
[quote]Fletch1986 wrote:
I used to go pretty wide, but issues made me use a narrower stance so I would say moderate. I go conventional for deads.[/quote]
I go conventional for deads as well. Would you say 14" is a short femur for y(our) height? It is about 20% of y(our) height.
18.5in using the correct measurement method.
So in actuality, that puts my femur at 26.4 percent. Well within the range of normal.
[quote]Fletch1986 wrote:
18.5in using the correct measurement method.
So in actuality, that puts my femur at 26.4 percent. Well within the range of normal. [/quote]
I just measured that way, from the hip socket (got right in there) to end of my knee cap, and I calculated 23.4%