Height Increasing Exercises
January 27, 2010
Getting tall is never easy. Some people are tall naturally. Their growth hormones assist them in becoming tall without any kind of physical activity. These people have a genetic bias to make them tall. Some people don’t have this. But this is never a problem. You should have known that so many short people are super-successful!!
There is good height increasing exercises. Although traditionally, eight is attributed to one’s level of physical activity in adolescence, this is for a large part true to a good extent.
Height increasing exercises work best when your body is still growing…or in other words before you are 21 years of age. These exercises are designed to stimulate the production of growth hormones in the body, increase the body’s posture, and give it more flexibility.
Here are good exercises
Swimming
Swimming is the best of all the height increasing exercises. When you swim, you employ almost all your muscles to work in tandem to move your body forward through the water. It also makes your body stretch through the water. So it’s a workout that employs the use of muscle contraction and stretching.
Running
Running is a natural, easy to do activity to increase the height. Any other allied activity involving running can also give you the benefits of height increase.
Pull-ups
This is an exercise where you use gravity to do a stretch-workout of your upper body. Gravity is a phenomenon that compresses are bodies, and hence we need to workout against it. This will provide the best form of resistance training that aids vertical growth of the body.
Even if you are not able to do a good full pull up initially, try to at least hang your body with your hands on the pull up bar.
Pull-ups are not advisable for people who are overweight.
Stretching
Forward stretching
Sit down with outstretched legs. Don’t bend your knees during this exercise. Now try to hold or touch the tip of your toe with your hands. Hold this position for about 10 seconds before releasing yourself and returning to your original position.
Sideways stretching
Sit down with outstretched legs, and spread your legs slightly at a wider angle. Reach for the right toe of your right leg with your right hand. Hold this position for about 10 seconds. Repeat the exercise with the other hand.
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