if you train hard, you might gain back 110% athleticism.

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i'll give my opinion


I don't believe it's possible to be 100% again, in the sense of... say you were timed in the 100 meters before you had ll, then timed yourself 2 years after ll... i don't believe you'd be as fast... or jump as high,etc

im also assuming you  were young when you had the surgery, so that  simply aging wasn't the cause, but the ll..obviously if you're 30 or 31 when you get the surgery, 2 years later you might not be as fast even without ll....

i think that for all intents and purposes, you can function   just as well as you did before, but that  there has to be a decrease in ability... even if it's negligible

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I believe that it might be possible to get to 100% but I´m pretty sure it´s close to impossible when exceeding the 5cm mark in total. That´s at least what my Dr. told me.

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alittleshort,i agree

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I agree.


I go by what a doctor told someone once.

 I personally asked Dr. Lee what he thought about this (lengthening past 6 cm) and he has told me that from his experience in talking to former lengthening patients (2-3 years post recovery) those that only lengthened 5 cm recovered fully and their previous athleticism returned close to 100% to pre-LL levels. On the other hand, those who chose to lengthen between 6 and 7 centimeters recovered 100% in performing daily functions (walking, light jogging, etc), BUT only recovered about 60-70% of their pre-LL athleticism when engaging in serious sports/strenuous activities (full sprinting, jumping, basketball, rugby,etc..). Additionally, those that lengthened beyond 7 cm saw an ever greater decline in their previous athletic abilities


I think 6cm is the safe zone max.

but I still have that stupid fking voice in the back of my fking head........ it keeps saying........ how about 6.5cm FP...... you can do it....... youll be fine.......... imagine if you could have done it and you didn't go for it.......  all those other people did more than 6cm.......... you can do it.......... DO IT! lol

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Quote from: ForcedPuberty on March 13, 2015, 08:53:57 PMI agree.


I go by what a doctor told someone once.

 I personally asked Dr. Lee what he thought about this (lengthening past 6 cm) and he has told me that from his experience in talking to former lengthening patients (2-3 years post recovery) those that only lengthened 5 cm recovered fully and their previous athleticism returned close to 100% to pre-LL levels. On the other hand, those who chose to lengthen between 6 and 7 centimeters recovered 100% in performing daily functions (walking, light jogging, etc), BUT only recovered about 60-70% of their pre-LL athleticism when engaging in serious sports/strenuous activities (full sprinting, jumping, basketball, rugby,etc..). Additionally, those that lengthened beyond 7 cm saw an ever greater decline in their previous athletic abilities


I think 6cm is the safe zone max.

but I still have that stupid fking voice in the back of my fking head........ it keeps saying........ how about 6.5cm FP...... you can do it....... youll be fine.......... imagine if you could have done it and you didn't go for it.......  all those other people did more than 6cm.......... you can do it.......... DO IT! lol

DO IT BRO!

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Long tibiae and forearms are simply superior physical features. Superior for running, sport, fighting other males (reach/height advantage) and signalling genetic quality (signals superior GH and IGF1 levels, also is a sexually dimorphic trait, assuming you're also tall and proportionate of course as disproportionately long tibiae on a short frame would look comical, forearms perhaps less so). Although you may never be functionally the same after CLL, and may lose some of your physical abilities, let's get real here- it's very hard to be 'athletic' in any sport that actually matters (rugby, american football, boxing, football, triathlon, sprinting, swimming as opposed to things like bodybuilding and powerlifting which are hardly 'sports' even in the vaguest sense) with the tibiae or forearms of a child. Once you're fully recovered, it's not inconceivable that you could improve at sport and physical activities in some ways from the advantages conferred by longer extremities- if the complications aren't bad and you didn't get mutilated.

So, on this point I actually find myself agreeing with you.

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The data available only points to a decrease in function, not an increase. This is severely wishful thinking

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FP possibly got me.

I think you guys are comparing pre and post-op POTENTIAL, and not relative athleticism.

example.

pre-op a lazy guy who doesn't train has a vertical leap of 60 cm. his potential that is unrealised is actually 80 cm if he cuts down body fat and train plyometrics

post-op, this lazy guy works like hell.  his vertical leap became 70 cm. his potential now is only 70 cm (it used to be 80). he can never get 80 cm no matter how hard he trains.

this is what I mean.

in other words u guys shouldn't be so stuck up and bigoted individuals.. forever trapped in a confined way of thinking..... this wont get u anwhere in life.. I was NOT referring to POTENTIAL.

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Quote from: Sean Connery on March 13, 2015, 10:14:49 PMThe data available only points to a decrease in function, not an increase. This is severely wishful thinking

decrease in POTENTIAL function. but it might well be an increase in absolute function (if someone trains harder than before LL)

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And what are the chances of a lazy ass before limb lengthening suddenly training like he's going to try out for the Olympics?