I'm 5'4 and dont want to mess up my athletic performance in the long run

I've been looking around and eventually found this place.

I'm 5'4 and am considering getting both my tibia and femurs lengthened, but a small amount. I am thinking like 5-6 cms on my femur, and 2-3cms.

My main concern is getting back to the shape i am in now. I am 34, about 155lbs and have competed in powerlifting/weightlifting/crossfit all my life. For reference my best Powerlifting squat was 520 in a meet, and i am running near a 20 min 5k right now.

Is it unrealistic to hope for a complete recovery to where i am now? I would even take 2 surgeries on both the femur and tibia to get a total of 6 cms, if it meant i am near 100% afterwards, but dont know if hoping for a full recovery is an unrealistic expectation.

Any thoughts are appreciated.

Quote from: bongobanger420 on May 14, 2023, 02:56:41 AMI've been looking around and eventually found this place.

I'm 5'4 and am considering getting both my tibia and femurs lengthened, but a small amount. I am thinking like 5-6 cms on my femur, and 2-3cms.

My main concern is getting back to the shape i am in now. I am 34, about 155lbs and have competed in powerlifting/weightlifting/crossfit all my life. For reference my best Powerlifting squat was 520 in a meet, and i am running near a 20 min 5k right now.

Is it unrealistic to hope for a complete recovery to where i am now? I would even take 2 surgeries on both the femur and tibia to get a total of 6 cms, if it meant i am near 100% afterwards, but dont know if hoping for a full recovery is an unrealistic expectation.

Any thoughts are appreciated.

What is it with this place and wierdos who are obsessed with whether they can squat again?

Height>>>>incel lifts like squatting. No one cares how much you can squat, or even if you squat at all. Everyone cares if you're tall or not.

Anyway if you're into pro weightlifting you'll know damn well the altered biomechanics of longer legs will negatively impact your deadlift and squat, so even if you did recover 100% you'll likely not lift the same as you used to simply because you'll now have to move the bar further than you did when you were shorter.

Hope Dr Assayag will answer these questions😆.
He was online here yesterday.

Quote from: Yau on May 14, 2023, 09:30:58 AMHope Dr Assayag will answer these questions😆.
He was online here yesterday.

as if dr Assayag will waste his time answering obvious stuff

let me save the good doctor's time and answer it myself - it is 100% certain you WILL NOT recover to your old strength if you even extend even 1 cm on the femur, let alone doing quadrilateral

END OF STORY

so now OP need to decide do you want to be a battle gnome forklift manlet or you want to get to human eye level as you get older and your looks(if you have any) start fading and stature becomes a more distinctive feature about you and the respect you get from your peers and strangers

but either way, youre 34 yo, youre behind your physical prime(simple biology), you will never be able to lift the amount you lifted in your best days so why sweat it?

extend your legs and rid yourself of this curse


on another note, always been fascinated by the futility of the "sport" called powerlifting. oh look at me i can lift 500 pounds of iron discs and exert my body with so much effort that my entire head gets all red veiny and is about to burst like the vsauce mind blow intro while i squish and compress my entire body and vertebrae and joints for the cheers of some crowd of beefcakes

like whats the point of this brutaility over oneself? a basic cheap chinese forklift can lift like 3000 pounds easy and they have forklifts that can go up to 50000 pounds

now tennis a good sport i can get behind

cheers buddy boyos

This place is the most toxic place i have ever seen.
jesus christ, there is something wrong with you all.

i'm not doing this for anyone else,
im doing this for me, i want to be the best version in my own minds.

you clearly have mental issues on top of being a manlet.

i never said powerlifting was a sport it what i like to do for fun, its stupid as a sport, and people who devote their lives to it are cringe.

but on a different not wtf is wrong with you dude? i asked a simple question and you spew negativity like this?
this is a serious question, i want an answer, are you mentally disabled?

edit: youre from bosnia, a country with an average iq of 65, so i got my answer, even if you dont think you are, you are to the rest of us.

First of all, you are right that this place is full of mentally ill people

Second, you wont be back to your best self afterwards but by lengthening conservative amounts you will be able to come close. From my personal observations of diaries and videos on the web, it seems that people who lengthened a max of 6-6.5cms on their femurs got back to a pretty good level of athletisism. About tibias, if you would lengthen 2-4cms I believe the same will apply.

Going from 5'3/5'4 to around 5'7 imo is worth it

Quote from: bongobanger420 on May 14, 2023, 12:59:24 PMi never said powerlifting was a sport it what i like to do for fun, its stupid as a sport, and people who devote their lives to it are cringe.

but on a different not wtf is wrong with you dude? i asked a simple question and you spew negativity like this?
this is a serious question, i want an answer, are you mentally disabled?

edit: youre from bosnia, a country with an average iq of 65, so i got my answer, even if you dont think you are, you are to the rest of us.

The fact is if you put a higher priority over how much you can squat over getting taller when you're 5ft 4, you're the mentally ill one.

No one gives one single sh*t how much you can squat. It's a weird thing to focus on - hurrr how many plates can I load on this bar on my back and then go up and down with it. No one cares. It doesn't help one bit in life. While being taller has a wide array of social, romantic, and even financial benefits.

If you could get an extra 0.1cm of height and the tradeoff was never heavy squatting again, you should take it, nevermind if we're talking about multiple centimetres.

Hi man, as you've already noted, unfortunately there are a couple of mentally ill people in this forum, and the mods refuse to handle the situation. Specifically p00293. This dude never lifted anything in his life (he uploaded pictures recently, you can easily tell), so obviously he has nothing to add on this topic. Beyond clearly being mentally ill, he's under the assumption dating is the only reason to live, and the sole reason for doing LL. And to top all of that he also has the social skills of a chimpanzee (and I'm being generous). He's behaving like a pathetic, miserable loser in every single thread. So, really, it's best just to ignore him and move on.

Now that we got this out of the way, I'll do my best to help as I'm in a somewhat similar position. I can't talk about recovery because I just finished lengthening, but my starting height was similar to yours, and while I'm nowhere near your numbers, I did squat about 360.

I'm doing LL with Dr. Rozbruch, who is one of the best (if not the best) LL doctor in the world. I specifically asked him about weightlifting in my consultation, as I care about it as well, and he told me about weightlifters and bodybuilders doing LL and recovering. You also have Victor (Cyborg 4 Life) who did lengthening on one leg due to leg discrepancy and he's a competing bodybuilder.

It's important to understand that the process is very individualistic, and while the assumption is less lengthening = better and faster recovery, it's still impossible to tell where exactly you're going to be after LL.

The short answer is, if you're still competing and it's important for you - it's probably best to wait with LL, until you're done with that part of your life. If you are, and treat it more of a hobby (a very serious one, nonetheless) - then you can do LL. You'll be lifting weights again, but you need to come to peace with the reasonable scenario that you may not reach these numbers again. Just the fact that your bio-mechanics are different (especially if you only do one segment) is enough to make your squat worse, even if you "fully recovered".