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I'm 6"3 with a 6'5 wingspan, so looks like you have long arms for your height. You will always have leverage disadvantages with long limbs, I'm also poor at the full squat and I could only get my push press up to 175 with sketchy form when I was working on it. For upper body I pretty much switch to calisthenics and gymnastic exercises which cured my left shoulder impingement, and I decided that a full squat wasn't in the cards for me and I need to working on a lunge or half squat. At 200 lbs my best full squat was 315 twice but real slow form wasn't perfect. Maybe you need to just pick exercises that will benefit your limb length like a half squat.

I'm 5'11 with a 6'3 wingspan. I don't really find benching hard but squats are fairly difficult.
I just measured my leg length and it was 3'3 (39 inches) from heel to hip joint.

or am i just making excuses?

Yes.  No offense but you probably "suck" at these movements because you're ok with sucking at them.   

My measurements:
Arms :
Fingertip to elbow : ~20.25"
Elbow to shoulder : ~15"

Legs:
Heel to knee : 23"
Knee to hip joint : 17"

My current maxes are something like 310 Bench, 195 Standing Mil Press (seated probably 10-15 more), 365-425? Squat.  I haven't squatted in a month so I'm not sure.   

Quote from: vag on August 02, 2012, 06:02:20 am

or am i just making excuses?

Yes.  No offense but you probably "suck" at these movements because you're ok with sucking at them.   

My measurements:
Arms :
Fingertip to elbow : ~20.25"
Elbow to shoulder : ~15"

Legs:
Heel to knee : 23"
Knee to hip joint : 17"

My current maxes are something like 310 Bench, 195 Standing Mil Press (seated probably 10-15 more), 365-425? Squat.  I haven't squatted in a month so I'm not sure.   

I'd don't know my exact measurements but I am pretty sure my heel to knee measurement is just about equal to my knee to hip join measurement.  Extremely long femurs.

As to whether your making excuses or you just suck because your ok with sucking....

Differences in limb lengths will have huge a huge effect on the load you can lift... but there's almost always a positive to different limb ratios.  I've been squatting a couple times a week for a year straight and have still never back squatted more than 405 at almost 200lbs.   But I came back to track and went sub 11 in the 100m after only four months back and less than a year removed from clinical obesity.  Additionally, I never train it but can deadlift 550 with semi-decent bar speed.  Point is I know that I'm at at a disadvantage when comparing my squat against a 5'7 190lb guy, but the disadvantage doesn't mean I can't improve. 

Bottom line is, if ALL your lifts and performance tests are poor your making excuses because it's not your limb length.

Additionally, your limb lengths should affect your absolute numbers not your ability to improve.  I started squatting 185lbs in college.  If I was better built for it maybe I woulda started with 275lbs instead.  The point is I have still added a lot of weight to my squat.... you can do the same.   Your limb lengths are why you might go from 135 to 405 rather than 225 to 495 over the course of 10 years, but they are not the reason for being stuck at 185lbs!     

A long crotch is considered a long limb?

Just asking...

 I lold hard at "long crotch" lmfaooo

^ of course, a good leverage is always better than a bad leverage regardless of training experience.