| Re: differences between tall and shorter men
I'm a short man (5'7) and I have trained with tall guys who are, give or take, proportionally a similar size to me. I found that, as previously mentioned, some exercise I’d be stronger and others they would. Remember, short people may have not as far to push the weight but they do have a lot less mass than a taller person so they are lifting proportionally so much more.
From what I’ve seen more short men who are genetically gifted (i.e. a mesomorph) want to get bigger compared to mesomorph tall men - maybe they do feel like want to make up for lack of height. I think that a natural tall (6'2+) mesomorph man will not bother at the gym because he already has the size and weight to throw about.
So what it boils down to is the type of person that goes to the gym - someone who wants to improve themself. So typically you get the tall skinny guys who wanna bulk up and you'll get the short guys (all of body shapes) who wanna make a bigger presence for themselves. On rare occasions you’ll get the tall mesomorphs at the gym and they’ll be the ones who’ll do the best as they dwardf the smaller guys on stage.
As for Short Man syndrome – I'm with Robster on this. I worked on the door for years and it was only the tall/fat bullies who had the attitudes with me. Short guys were more respectful and often more useful in a fight as they haven’t relied on their size to intimidate people all of their life – they have actually fought and have the balls to back it up.
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