Your Potential At 6’6″

Dude,

You’re not yet 21. Thus far you’ve lived a life of playstation and taco bell. You’re lazy. This saddens me.

I’ve told you man to man, I’m jealous of your frame. I’m 6′, small framed, and managed through effort to grow well past my intended size, without drugs, just training. You’re 6’6″, large framed. I wasn’t joking when I said I’d love to train you.

I see your genetic potential. A barbell, a yoke, hell even pushing your pickup around…you could be solid at 400lbs. You have the genetics, you duestchland looking motherfucker you, you could be the equivalent of Brian Shaw.

Regardless, I want to see you train. You’d be a monster just catching pumps at planet fitness.

I still remember when you wanted to train with me, when you wanted to get into weight regs and enlist. Bro, that shit is never off the table.

I’d love to PT with you. With you, I know you think I’d make a great di, but I’d be right there with you rep for rep, hell starting out there’d even be a handicap. I’d do more than you, with you.

I told my uncle that I’d love to train you, how I see your potential, but how with my black and white thinking would want to guide you towards one extreme of build or the other. Yeah, you’d be set catching pumps at pf, you’d likely fall in love with the place off of all the booty on the stairmaster alone, but that’s not the physical path I’d like to take you.

I see two options :

  • Strongman
  • Burpees

With strongman we’d get you to that solid 400lbs. This path would be more towards your tradesman uncle who was probably the most physically imposing, most impressively built man I’ve ever come across, just off of working labor. What was he 6’6″ 320lb, and fairly lean? He did that without thinking into it, just working labor, you have that genetic potential. With conscious effort put into training you can surpass your uncle’s robustness as training is conscious and with thought, it’ll surpass the build from a labor job which is phyiscal effort without thinking into the muscle.

Now with burpees this is the other extreme. You know how I’m 0-100, black and white, I like all or nothings. I’d love to, like the videos popping up on my youtube feed of an active duty marine and hispanic ex-cons, collaborate with you on this. I’m prepared to start at a handicap of 3 reps of navy seals to your 1 rep of 1 pumps.

This path? I see you being 265lbs,lean &mean, just cut up, a nasty shredded motherfucker who can go all day. You’ll have done a million burpees, and be capable of just repping out on pullups and handstand pushups.

You have that potential to be solid at 6’6″, not rolly polly soft like you are at present. Just go to pf or do some pushups at home at a minimum. However, I’d love to see you go to one of those extremes.

400lbs of big ass muscular dude? You can do it.

265lbs of lean, mean, animalistic motherfucker? You can do it.

There are pros and cons to each. I’ll help you on the path either way. I want to see you do something with those genetics bro,

-J