Can running on a treadmill help you grow taller?

There are many reasons why a person may not grow tall, which is mainly due to the influence of bone age. Moderate exercise, such as running, jumping exercises, etc. can effectively promote bone growth and have a certain promoting effect on height growth. The following editor will introduce how running on a treadmill in the gym can effectively achieve height growth.

Exercise is a good way to promote bone growth, and running is one of them. Let’s see whether jogging can promote height growth.

Whether you can grow taller depends on your bone age. Bone age is an indicator of development. If your age is greater than your bone age, it means you have growth retardation; if your age is less than your bone age, it means you have precocious puberty, etc. Therefore, if you want to understand your growth and development, you should go to a regular hospital to take a bone age X-ray. Your doctor will judge your growth potential based on the epiphyseal closure shown on the bone age film.

Simply put, exercises that can increase appetite, promote sleep, and apply a certain degree of longitudinal pressure to bones are beneficial for growing taller. Specifically, there are jogging, skipping rope, dancing, playing basketball and volleyball, etc. However, many children who play basketball and volleyball are already very tall. If you let children who don't like these sports engage in these sports just to make them taller, you are wrong.

Because emotional stability is also important for height growth, let your children choose the sports they like. However, strenuous exercise that consumes too much physical energy is better left to high school students whose bodies have stopped growing. Bone development comes to a certain extent from longitudinal pressure, but excessive pressure (weightlifting, etc.) makes it difficult for bones to grow longitudinally.

What are the benefits of jogging?

Studies have shown that brisk jogging can enhance respiratory function, increase lung capacity, and improve the body's ventilation and gas exchange capabilities. The oxygen supplied during jogging can be 8 to 12 times more than when sitting still. Oxygen is essential for maintaining human life activities, and the ability to absorb oxygen directly affects cardiopulmonary function.

Generally speaking, the oxygen absorption capacity of the elderly is lower, and exercise can improve their oxygen absorption capacity. The maximum oxygen uptake of elderly people who jog is not only significantly higher than that of their peers who do not exercise, but also higher than that of elderly people who participate in general exercise. Jogging can strengthen and thicken the myocardium, and has the effect of exercising and protecting the heart. The heart size and function of an elderly person who has been jogging for many years is no different from that of a 20-year-old young person who does not exercise. This is because long-term exercise improves myocardial nutrition, makes the myocardium developed, and improves its function.

When people run, the blood flow in the body will continue to increase, and the elasticity of blood vessels will become better, thus effectively improving blood circulation, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. People who run for a long time will have a lower heart rate than normal people. This can allow the myocardium to rest longer each time and effectively prevent various myocardial diseases.