I've been dwelling over my proportions for a while now and worried that I'll look weird so I wanted some input on how much I should lengthen. Mostly concerned about sitting height.
Current height: 5'6"
Sitting height: 33.5" – 85 – 85.5 cm
SH/H ratio: 50.8%~
Wingspan: 70.1" – 178 cm
Crotch to floor inseam: 30.75" – 31"
Inseam to height ratio: 46.7%
Roughly
Now I would REALLY not be happy to be under 5'9" (175 cm) although I could live with 5'8" if more length would make me terribly disproportionate, but I'm really tempted and want to do two lengthenings to try to reach 5'11" (180 cm) which would totally resolve my height neurosis but I find my sitting height to be very limiting and worrisome. I could try to work my glutes to gain a cm or two but either way I would like some input on how much I should lengthen.
5'10" – 5'11" I would be very happy with, 5'9" would be decent but 5'8" meh and not that satisfactory although still better than my current position.
Please respond.
Recommend me a length based on my worrying proportions
Thanks, I guess I will shoot for that then. Still wondering what if I tried to do two lengthenings 
Btw, your diary is really inspiring, totally rooted for you man. And may I ask how do you feel at 5'9", tall enough? Because some people consider that still kinda short although that might be due to exaggeration and skewed perception although statistically it's bang on average.
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Is 180 even thinkable?
I don't know, his torso looks rather balanced, not short actually unlike mine post LL. Are you sure he has a 42 in leg reach , equivalent to a 36 inseam? And how do you measure leg reach?
That's a pretty good example, bit relieving, yes. I'll consider 13 cm if my sitting height increases by an inch or so by working out. Thanks for the example.
I think I'll look fine with 3 inch femur lengthening, the femur to tibia ratio doesn't look that off. With added 2 cm sitting height from glutes I think I can just about pull off 175 but my legs look really long then. But I kinda really wanna be 180 but proportion wise it really looks a bit overkill though not terrible. But most people of that height have a pretty noticeably longer torso and sitting height so that will be problematic, I'd say I do kind of have a shortish torso at the moment. Then there's always a middle ground of 5'10".
What would you do if you were me?
I don't really care more about proportions than height, it's just that I worry my torso isn't long enough to handle the length. Would you say a quadrilateral lengthening will make it even harder for a good recovery, since the trauma is more even though the length isn't that much and distributed? Because in that case I would shy away from that option. What's your inseam?
That's a lower than average sitting height, has anyone commented on it? I think mine will be similar if I was to gain 2 cm off working glute muscle (is that even realistic?)
I guess that gives me more confidence. How did you measure your sitting height? I think it's not accurate unless you use an aerosol or something, just beside a tape measure even I get 87-88 but when I push my hair is more 85
Erect spine, I kinda have relatively good posture sitting, when I had a friend measure like that I got 86.5-87 cm but only when I push a can on my head it goes down. I remeasured this time and clocked in at 86.1-86.2 cm but this was a very inactive day and I lay in my bed for a lot of the time, so on a more active I think 85-85.5 should be it, maybe at worst 83-84 cm in relaxed posture. Also, holy I measured my height as 5'6.5" I never got that measurement except within seconds of waking up from a very long sleep.
Regardless I might just end up doing 3 inches, I'll probably look weird with more, don't wanna risk torso length dysphoria or something
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