# progress thread: 94gt5.0 **URL:** \ **Category:** Shift518 Off Topic\ **Created:** [November 5, 2009, 12:41pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/progress-thread-94gt5-0/248135 "2009-11-05T12:41:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 524
**Author:** ![OsoiNA6](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/osoina6/32/6301_2.png) [@OsoiNA6](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/OsoiNA6)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 8:32am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/progress-thread-94gt5-0/248135/524 "2010-03-10T08:32:56Z")
> [@WTB: Rear civic seats](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wtb-rear-civic-seats/29920/8): > > ive always disagreed with that statement, maybe just cuz im a short fuck with midget arms but i dont think its true. > > Just because your arms are longer doesnt necesarily mean you will have a harder time benching. I think it does mean, however, your muscles are more of an elongated muscle. Instead of building out, you actually have more of a chance to build a more proportional muscle. Therefore why are you disadvantaged in benching? Im not arguing with you, im just wondering the real facts behind that statement. People say it all the time. > [@Turbonetics turbos FTL](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/turbonetics-turbos-ftl/29973/6): > > I just think that if your tall with long arms, it shouldnt matter because if your at all coordinated, you can use your body. If your a big, goofy, lanky fuck then ya maybe you suck at life. Same thing for a 5’2 110lb person. But if your 6’2 and 230lbs your not gonna have a big ass bulky arm but the muscle is still there and technically the muscle on your arm+chest+shoulders is bigger than that of the 5’6 guy who weighs 185 (me lol) If your tall and you say your moving the bar two feet, then everything you do everyday of your life is that way. So you should be adapted to that. So i just feel that height/arm length/leg length is no excuse for what you bench/squat/press etc… You aren’t disadvantaged, seeing as you use your body the same way everyday, just like a smaller person does. Just a couple of comments here… Not that I’m a weightlifter or anything but if you want to be “fair”, don’t compare heights. Compare your dress shirt sleeve length and your chest measurement. A 5’8" guy can have longer arms and reach than a 6’0" dude… People are built differently. The two measurements above are the ones that will impact how much you have to lift the bar for a rep. The other measurement that of course comes into play is the width of your grip on the bar. This is something you can do something about, to an extent. The first two are pretty much set unless your name is Mister Fantastic :lol When you’re lying on the bench, the bench doesn’t care how long your legs are. Being more or less coordinated doesn’t matter either. What matters is lifting the bar up off the rack, down to your chest, then up to full lockout, that’s it. Energy required is proportional to the height difference from touching your chest to the top of full lockout. After measuring all the dimensions and stuff, I think in most cases, where you have a height difference of a few inches, you can compensate by changing grip to make things more “equal”. At the end of the day, you are probably talking a relatively small (5% to 15%) difference in required energy to perform a rep for 90% of the general population’s physiology, and accounting for how they play into dimensions of the linkage made when one is at “full lockout”. The ability to adjust a bit in grip width also comes into play here. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/progress-thread-94gt5-0/248135)._