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Betz Institute 12 cm femurs

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Philosopher
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Posted on Jul 29, 2023, 5:44 pm
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Betz Institute literally claims they can go for a maximum of up to 12 cm on femurs. Since that is way over the safe limit of 8 cm advised by many, how realistic is that? Are there people who've went to Dr. Betz and successfully recovered after such amount?
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YOUNGandSTRONG
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Posted on Jul 29, 2023, 7:13 pm
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Stand Taller got 12 cm in femurs with betz last year from 5'5 to 5'10, ask him
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Posted on Jul 29, 2023, 8:21 pm
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If you do that you screw yourself up and are signing yourself up for early arthisis and joint problems. Just don't, stick to the 8 cms. You could properly pull it off if your starting height is 190 cm, but if you LL at that point your in the top 1000 idiots in this world.
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Thekollecter
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Posted on Jul 29, 2023, 8:34 pm
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If your starting height is 190cm can you still get arthritis with 12 cm on femur v
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Tehn84
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Posted on Jul 29, 2023, 9:02 pm
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There are guys who have done it and been fine. Also people who've ruined themselves.

Mad respect for anyone who actually gets to 12cm. It's hard enough at the latter stages of 8cm, nevermind with 4cm more added. I feel most guys would stop long before simply because of muscle and tendon tightness.
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Posted on Jul 29, 2023, 9:35 pm
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Good luck with that. For plenty of reasons.
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lessthanavg8300
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Posted on Jul 29, 2023, 9:39 pm
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People who do this much often regret it because their proportions are absurd.
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Posted on Jul 30, 2023, 12:44 pm
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Quote from: DanishViking on July 29, 2023, 08:21:11 PMIf you do that you screw yourself up and are signing yourself up for early arthisis and joint problems. Just don't, stick to the 8 cms. You could properly pull it off if your starting height is 190 cm, but if you LL at that point your in the top 1000 idiots in this world.

First of all, it's not like I'm seriously considering it, I'm just checking out all the options and doing some research.
Also what do you have in mind? Is it easier to lenghten longer distances when you are already taller? How exactly does that work?
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DanishViking
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Posted on Jul 30, 2023, 4:23 pm
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You can only safely lengthen a certain % of your limbs 10-15 % of the original length is safe zone where 15-20% is the risky zone. Anything above that your're playing with fire. So the taller you are the longer limbs you already have to begin with equals the more you can safetely lengthen.
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Tehn84
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Posted on Jul 30, 2023, 5:32 pm
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There is the tendancy for people just to parrot what they've learned from others until it becomes 'commonly accepted'. This 8cm so-called safe limit is mainly because the Precise and Stryde nails maxed at 8cm, no other reason.

Reality is this: if you go a bit above 8cm, you'll probably be fine. 12cm is a bit extreme but I definitely think most could do 9 or 10 if the nail allows it and they're not concerned with doing incel things like squatting big weights or running marathons. If you just wanted a basic recovery where you can walk fine 9 or 10 is probably going to be fine.
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