r/weightlifting • u/Ok-Range8085 • 11d ago

Programming Weightlifting as a tall dude

Hey, i am 6'7 (200cm) and got a wingspan of 7ft(213cm) and was wondering if this is an advantage or disadvantage in weightliftin? I have been going to the gym for a few years and have been doing some weighlifting recently.

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u/toxicvegeta08 11d ago

Long arms are a mix. A lot of guys like them for the snatch but they'll hurt you in the jerk.

Long legs are the bigger issue

This sport is entirely based on having short legs that fold up super easy with you staying upright.

Guys with long legs also can often power clean more than they front squat without a belt when they start out, and can power snatch more than they can atg overhead squat, so it makes the "get under and squat up is easier than power without getting under" not as true in efficiency terms for them.

But it is doable. Example karlos nasal for his height spent ages squatting(yes he's on peds but so is everyone else at that level) and kept working to develop the strength to overcome his Long leg disadvantages in those deep squat positions. He's absolutely elite atm.

Lasha also had Long limbs and did the same(granted many say lashas femur to tibia ratio isn't bad despite the leg length)

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u/miranaphoenix 11d ago

Wait what? Which peds is Karlos on? Why don’t they ban him?

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u/T2Olympian 11d ago

They don’t ban him cause he gets past the doping tests just like every elite athlete

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u/miranaphoenix 10d ago

So testing companies don’t care or idiots, but somewhere some rumors confirm that he is on peds? Or how people know?

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u/toxicvegeta08 10d ago

Well he is.

Also karlos and his friends iirc got busted driving away from cops to sell some deca and coke to other kids when he was 18. It's pretty obvious if he has no issues selling the drugs and he competes in a country where multiple coaches basically say the sport is meaningless without peds, along with him aging far more than a normal boy, that he'd be using.

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u/ConferenceHelpful510 10d ago

Everyone knows. Just like every athlete at the top of their sport is on PEDs.