The importance of height for physique aesthetics

What height is ideal when it comes building the most visually appealing body? This is up for debate and is bound to have fans at both ends of the spectrum as proportions greatly vary depending on height. Lee Priest is an inspiration to thousands out there as is Arnold Schwarzenegger. There is no doubting that Arnold would dwarf Lee if he stood next to him however if you were to put a picture od each side by side some would argue that Lee Priest is the more muscular of the two, one reason being that there is only an inch or two in the difference between arm size despite there being a nine inch difference in height.

It often appears that the sweet spot for the best proportions which is also the height of most successful mens physiques competitors is between 5’10-6’1

Exaples of some of the most famous amatuer bodybuilders on the internet in recent times that are between these heights are Zac Aynsley and Aziz Shavershian.

The upper end of the measuring tape is where proportions start to become skewed as men who are 6’4 or above tend to have elongated limbs with poor width relative to length. Of course there are outliers for this which include Jonah Lomu and Dwayne Johnson who have incredible frame width and thickness for their height.

Another member of the modern aesthetics movement is Jon Skywalker, standing at 192cm and less than 100kg his stats sound laughable for any competitive bodybuilders yet there hasn’t been a single photo of him online to this date where he isn’t mogging the person next to him, despite having tiny wrists and a long arm span his shoulder to waist ratio is so good that he make the average bodybuilder look stocky and goofy as hell.

That isn’t to say I’m bashing on shorter guys with a lot of muscle mass in fact I think some look extremely aesthetic but they reach their cutoff point much sooner than their taller counterpart, 17” arms lean is enough to make any guy under 5’9 look very jacked, the below shows some good example and includes my personal favourite “manlet” lifter: Jay SP