Can aerobic exercise increase height?

Everyone wants to grow tall, especially men, so many people try every means to increase their height, especially some growing children. Parents pay more attention to it and always let their children take various supplements and participate in various sports. So, can aerobic exercise increase height? Many people are concerned about this issue, let’s take a look at it together!

A person's height is determined by two major factors: heredity and environmental influences. Modern medical research has shown that about 75% of a person's height depends on the genetic factors of the parents, but its growth potential is largely affected by acquired factors, at least 25% of which depends on acquired factors, which are mainly nutrition, physical exercise, living habits, geographical environment and disease.

Data show that teenagers of the same gender and age who regularly participate in physical exercise are on average 4 to 8 centimeters taller than those who do not. But it should be noted that not all sports can help you grow taller. In order to make yourself grow taller through exercise, you should master the appropriate exercise method, intensity and amount. The first emphasis in exercise is to do more speed, suspension, jumping, stretching and agility activities.

For example:

(a) Jog for 5 to 7 minutes, then do flexibility and relaxation exercises - splits, lower back bending, swinging, and shaking for 20 minutes.

(ii) Hang on the horizontal bar: Try to relax your body and stretch your upper limbs as much as possible, and hang for 10 to 20 seconds; rest your body for 2 to 3 minutes, repeat once, and then do a loaded hang with a load of 5 kg. After a week of training, the hanging time can be extended to 30 to 40 seconds each time.

(III) Practice jumping with all your strength. Jump with both feet twice, 10 times each time. Jump with the left foot and jump with the right foot, the same number of times. The interval between the same set of jumping movements is 5 to 8 seconds, and the interval between different sets of movements is 4 to 5 seconds. In the beginning, do 2 sets a day. After a week of practice, you can increase the number to 3 to 4 sets a day.

(IV) Rope skipping exercises When skipping rope, you can push off the ground with bent knees and straight knees and try to jump as high as possible. The initial time can be 3 to 5 minutes, gradually increase to 10 minutes, and rest for 1 to 2 minutes in between. In addition, swimming is also an effective exercise for promoting growth; when swimming, you should do various stretching movements in the water, such as stretching your arms and legs when doing breaststroke, and swim every other day. In order to speed up your growth, it is important not to do the same exercises. You can combine them with playing basketball, volleyball, doing radio gymnastics, riding a bike, relaxing jogging, etc., and do less weight-bearing exercises. The key to exercise is persistence, only then can you achieve better results.

When it comes to the amount of exercise, you can determine it based on whether your feeling, performance, and reaction after exercise are normal or not. When you exercise in moderation, you will feel good about yourself after exercise, be more energetic, be more responsive, have an increased appetite, sleep well, and have plenty of energy to study during the day. If you lose your appetite, feel drowsy, and lack energy after exercise, it means you are exercising too much and you should adjust your exercise accordingly. It is not advisable to do these exercises too early. Exercising too early will not only not help to grow taller, but will affect your height. Boys aged 13 to 22 and girls aged 11 to 17 can get satisfactory results by doing these height-enhancing exercises. While doing physical exercise, you must pay attention to strengthening nutrition to promote the growth and development of muscles and bones. The principle to be grasped is: while ensuring sufficient supply of calories and protein, sufficient inorganic salts and vitamins should be supplemented, such as various types of fish, meat, milk, eggs, and soy products. Various vegetables and fruits. In short, you can eat a mixture of foods containing a variety of nutrients for three meals a day, but you cannot be picky about food and should eat a reasonable combination. With proper physical exercise and adequate nutrition, it is not difficult to achieve a more ideal height.

Generally speaking, a person's height has a lot to do with genetics, but the influence of the acquired environment is also very important. Aerobic exercise has a certain effect on increasing height, but it does not mean that all exercises can increase height. If you want to increase height, it is best to adopt jogging, horizontal bar hanging, full jump, skipping rope and other exercise methods, and at the same time, you must ensure comprehensive nutrition.