In my opinion height should play no hand in how guys place in shows. Guys like David Henry and Flex Lewis look good enough in my opinion to be top 10 in the mens open at the Olympia. Of course they never will because the IFBB treats the 212 division athletes like second class citizens.
Seriously less prize money then Bikini division and they don’t even get to sit in on things like the Olympia press conference. Ridiculous…
[quote]Matthaeus wrote:
In my opinion height should play no hand in how guys place in shows. Guys like David Henry and Flex Lewis look good enough in my opinion to be top 10 in the mens open at the Olympia. Of course they never will because the IFBB treats the 212 division athletes like second class citizens.
Seriously less prize money then Bikini division and they don’t even get to sit in on things like the Olympia press conference. Ridiculous… [/quote]
Dude, this is such a great post, and quite effin’ true!
[quote]krazykoukides wrote:
… there are a lot of variables involved. [/quote]
There is so much variation in bone structure. I’m not quite 5’2" and 115. There are lots of small boned Asian women at my gym of similar height, but I’m guessing I outweigh many of them by 20 pounds. I’d love to see more of them get into strength training. It would be fun to compare. I’d guess both strength and aesthetics are going to be drastically different just based on bone structure alone.
Related, I follow several petite clothing blogs. It’s fascinating to see that two women can share the same height and even clothing size, but look SOO different. I’ve been surprised to see that I will share roughly the same bust-waist-hip measurements to women who are WAY lighter.
EDIT: In terms of strength, I’d guess that my larger wrist size for example would be advantageous on lifts like the bench press.