Simply put, no two bodies are created equally. Taller athletes need to realise the difference in their skeletal makeup and how it affects their pulling mechanics.
A taller lifter with higher lat attachments doesn’t need to pull as far to reach a peak contraction in the lats during Pull-Ups or Pulldowns. That means the bar won’t clear the face, which by many textbook standards is an “incomplete lift.” Moreover, having a body that carries a large amount of muscle would frustrate a lifter’s ability to use a greater range of motion. Since that muscle, even though fully contracted, would block the lifter from being able to do so.
This isn’t a cop-out method to encourage cheating or insufficient training methods. Rather, it’s an honest look at the mechanical disadvantage some people have when lifting weights if their body type body is among the outliers. Compensating beyond this means engaging the wrong muscle or pulling the skeleton out of position to achieve the last few inches of distance.
Watch the video bellow to listen to trainer Lee Boyce explain how you should be perfomring these exercises.
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