Friday, April 19, 2013

More Fun Facts About Height

  As I was surfing the web I came across some interesting additional facts related to height. Some of them include:
  • You grow the tallest in the first year of your life
  • The taller you are it raises the risk for cancer
  • Height does not have everything to do with family genes
  • Being tall is good for the heart
 I did not realize that only 60-80% of height has to do with your genetics! I always looked at my
more average height family and wondered where in the world I got my height from! The website link I am posting goes into more detail about these and other facts.

     Big and Little Facts About Your Height- Everydayhealth.com

Thursday, April 11, 2013

Want To Earn More Money? Be Taller...


    Apparently height has more to do with making money than most of us realize! And its not just the fact that we are noticed more. CBS News goes into detail about studies done by the University of Florida and the University of North Carolina (where I'm from) about this claim. Also, they point out in the reading how Americans are gradually becoming shorter than the rest of the world's population!
Read on and find out more about these interesting facts!

     CBS News- The Trouble With Tall People
 
     University of Florida- Workplace Rewards Tall People With Money

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

All Hail KG!

     Here is Part Two of favorite NBA big man highlights. Kevin Garnett soared to success, going right from high school to the NBA, but the funny thing is you could never tell that by just watching these plays that make him so memorable...

Monday, March 18, 2013

All Hail KD!


             So for fun I thought I would depart from the usual and include some footage of one of my favorite big men in the NBA.....Kevin Durant! I am a HUGE basketball fan and this man is one of my top b-ball role models. Even if you hate this guy you've gotta admit he's got some skills...

Thursday, March 14, 2013

Find Long Jeans Here!

     

      Hey so I just recently bought 34 waist 36 length BKE 'Tyler' style jeans at The Buckle. They have really great styles of jeans and I couldn't believe how long they are! Being 6'10" its REALLY hard to find good pants! They were about $70 too so they are not very expensive. So go ahead! Check it out!

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Tall = Live Longer

I found some interesting articles recently online about how studies have found a relationship between tall people and longer life spans. Here are a couple of articles that got me thinking:



Height Linked to Longevity- ABC News

The Claim: Tall People Live Longer- NY Times


Of course the whole topic is full of debate, the opposite side claiming that short people own this statistic, but it is still very interesting to read into.

Monday, February 11, 2013

Facts About Weight

     Okay, so my brother-in-law does fitness programs like CrossFit and is really into health foods so here is some advice I learned from him on the subject of tall guys and healthy weight:

     Tall thin guys worry way too much about gaining weight. The best way to gain weight is to grab a bag of unlimited cookies, sodas, chocolate, and potato chips. Move little as possible and play video games all day long for months on end. If you do this until you're 40 you’ll weigh more......Ok that is a joke but don’t worry about the weight in lbs or Kgs. Measure yourself by your body fat percentages.
     A healthy range for males is 6 to 20 percent of body fat. Most tall thin guys are around 6 to 12 % which is on the fit side of the spectrum. Yet they think they are way too skinny. Just forget about it.   
     If you're wanting to gain muscle mass look at the Zone Diet at www.zonediet.com. This diet targets the growth of the body by balancing the macro nutrients—fats, carbs, portions. The downside to this diet is that it only works if you’re working out regularly and consistently, and you have a lot of measuring and pre-cooking to do to make it work.
     Further, to build more muscle do few sets (2 or 3) and high reps (12 to 15) in weight training.