In most sports, being tall is quite an advantage. In football, you can see over your competitors and make plays nobody else can. In basketball, it means you’re first to the rebound and your shot isn’t blocked. Usain Bolt is the fastest man in the world and one of the tallest sprinters in history. Tall tennis players have a reach that leaves others with twisted ankles trying to reach the ball. In other sports, height can be a curse. Tall soccer players aren’t able to cut and move as quickly on the field. In bodybuilding, having a great deal of height can be a curse or a blessing, depending on where you are in your overall development. In the beginning, it will be a curse. However, if you overcome years of being the lanky man onstage and manage to fill out your physique, you can win a lot of trophies by out-muscling everyone around you – and never being overlooked by the judges!

If you want to look anything like the men a foot shorter than you, then you are going to need to increase your overall caloric intake substantially. Their limbs are shorter. It is going to take them fewer years to reach their muscular capacity, and fewer calories along the way. You are going to need to enact a significant change in your current eating patterns. Many of today’s top “tall” bodybuilders, men over 6 foot 4 inches, engaged in extreme eating practices for years. We’re taking several pounds of beef per day, along with pounds of rice, beans, and pasta. Eating every 120 to 150 minutes might be essential. If you have also been granted a fast metabolism, you are going to have a particularly hard time. However, this will help you with getting into shape once you do manage to add a great deal of muscle to your frame.

Tall men have to be conditioned when they compete. If you’re shorter, and you pack a lot of muscle, you can possibly hide poor shape with creative posing and a lot of muscle packed on your frame. If you are taller, however, you’re going to be exposed in a major way. You may have to diet longer and harder to lose what will be more body fat on your frame. However, when you are completely in shape, the judges aren’t going to be able to miss it. Your abs will cut through the visuals of that stage where the shorter men are showing pectorals. You’ll be literally head and shoulders above the rest!

Patience is the key. You aren’t going to have a 6 foot 6 physique filled out by the age of 22. This would be impossible. Even if you do believe you’re very well-muscled at this age, you’re in for quite a surprise in ten years. So you have to be committed to doing this for the long haul in order to fulfill your ultimate genetic potential. Spend your early competitive years muscling up, and don’t become frustrated when some 198-pound weakling dusts you off the stage. In five years, you’ll be the one dwarfing him in every pose, and taking home the trophy!

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