Paper lanterns at a wedding.
Author - Mark Montgomery French
Honestly, how’s your lower back right now? If you said “uncomfortably stiff and inflexible but thanks for asking” you could be a typical American, as we have a whopping 80% chance of suffering from lower back pain. Since being tall inflates these odds by 22%—with all that extra back mass and excessive stooping leading to bad posture—you can begin to heal and protect your back with the humble plank exercise. It requires no equipment and even a 30-second plank can produce positive results.
Tresca Behling is a legendary Bay Area bassist, a fantabulous hair stylist at Glama-Rama, and very tall.
I’m a 6′ 9″ African-American male. Every week a total stranger will ask me the same four-word question that I heard the week before, and the week before that, and every single week of my life for last 30 years. It’s practically a script:
In spite of their typical joint presentation, tall is not big.