I know I’m starting with a short torso, but will this still look acceptable?

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Current, 174-175 or so cm:



After getting to approximately 181cm:



I’m not the best dressed here, but I wore my shirt down to its natural tucking position.  What I did is lengthen the femurs the ~6cm and make them a bit thicker (to make them slightly less gangly looking, since I plan to do a lot of leg training after this to compensate).

Is it within the realm of reason, just based on these pictures?  I’m a bit less concerned about how I look without clothes because I don’t really like going in swim trunks to the beach or pool during the summer, so I’m virtually always going to be clothed in a social situation.

If not, I’ll see if I can just go to 178ish cm instead.  Far from my ideal but even 4cm would mean a lot 

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Thanks for initial opinions!  I admit part of why I didn’t do shirtless is because I am really unfortunately out of shape right now... which I hope to rectify starting now.

174-175cm:



181cm:



I know bulking legs and, really everything, will help a lot, but currently I’m the exact opposite of bulked.

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Inseam (book between legs method, measuring top of book to floor) seems to be about 81cm.  Might be as much as 82cm but no more, the tape I use is ever so slightly stretchy.

Wingspan I actually measured once and think I did it wrong, but it’s very close to my height already.  At most a cm or two longer.

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Not able to take a picture right now, but sitting height is between 91-92cm.  Can get a pic later tonight

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Did a more traditional (nked and censored) set of pictures, from further away and at waist level.

Currently 173ish:



181cm:



EDIT: accidentally posted a morph that was closer to 184cm.  This one is fairly close to 181cm.

EDIT 2:  I overlaid this over a picture of some leg to body ratio pictures from that study about body attractiveness.  The one on the left is average LBR and the right is +3 Standard Deviations, with +1 on my left and +2 on my right.  Seems I am at most maybe +2 Standard Deviations from average in this morph?  Which I would be very happy with, since while leggy it’s not particularly unattractive and to my eye doesn’t look too extreme.



Any thoughts?

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A succinct set of answers so far but the fact that everyone so far thinks it looks reasonable has really made my day   well, I have a consultation in the short term future with a few surgeons, and now I know 181cm is probably within the realm of reason.

I also measured my inseam again: 82cm flat.  I measured my height again though it was about 173cm this time.  Seems it is 175 at morning and 173 at night.

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Quote from: Tartar on January 17, 2021, 12:10:04 AMAs I told you before you are fine. Your legs are not long at the beginning, in addition you are an endomorph, wide hip, wide thorax and good shoulders.

Sorry for not just taking your word at the beginning!  I just wanted to make absolutely sure it wasn’t the camera angle or distance or clothes that made it seem so.

I’ve actually never thought of myself as an endomorph before, but after your first post mentioning it I looked into it a bit.  Is being an endomorph a benefit here (or more of a general observation)?

Thanks again for the help so far! 

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I think I probably will ultimately go with at the very least +6.5 in femurs, and +4 in tibias, which would bring me to 184cm approximately.  Should also preserve any inter limb ratio and wouldn’t be tall enough to make my frame look small for the height.  I feel better about this now that I measured my shoulder width (biacromial) and it’s a standard deviation above average (average is 400cm, mine is nearly 430cm, SD of 25ish) already, so it should look fine when I’m a standard deviation above average height too.  My shoulders probably look less wide than they are because I have an incredibly thick natural neck (over 17”, which makes medium shirts really an annoying ordeal).  Just need to bulk up!

Thanks to all the reassurances and input!

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Quote from: Jamesy998 on February 16, 2021, 06:58:18 PMOne thing that would really benefit you is hitting the deltoids and getting those shoulders slightly bigger.

Just started a gym routine a few weeks ago and while I haven’t seen any change yet, I’m working on upper body religiously now 

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I’ve decided based on this thread and the opinions of my friends to move on with the process.  Going to do femurs first — minimum 6cm, debating 7+cm.  Tibias at a later date if desired, very likely to be.

I measured my wingspan, it’s around 183cm (possibly a bit more but it’s hard to measure on my own), so I’m already about +10cm.  I think that hitting 183cm is sufficiently tall that I will feel very tall after — in 4cm daily lifts I already feel like the height issue is largely eliminated as a detriment, and I think at 183cm or 184cm I will feel very tall (even if it’s upper end of average where I live).

This is a final mock-up of after that convinced me that this should work out fine.  Ultimately I just look like a kinda-tall guy and not an alien, in my opinion.  That’s with the shirt tucked at where normal people tuck it too; I think I will look even better with a L size shirt instead of a M.  I’ll have a 36 inseam at 6’ which is a bit high but not unreasonable.  I think 183-184 should be more recoverable too, which is important since I love walking long distances.

As everyone knows, Stryde is out of the question for now, so I’m doing Precise 2.2.  I think it will be bearable at 6ish centimeters, and by the time I can do tibs, stryde should be back.  Crutches will be a 5 month reality, so I’m working out my upper body big time as part of prep.