What exercises can help you grow taller?

Everyone has a stage of growth. During this stage, there are many issues that we need to pay attention to. If we don’t pay attention, it will easily affect our growth and development. So what are the exercises that affect height growth? After understanding these, we should pay more attention in our future life and stop doing these exercises to avoid delaying our height growth. Next, let us learn about what exercises affect height growth?

During adolescence, the body's height grows rapidly, and the main reason for the growth is bone development. Boys can grow an average of 7 to 9 cm taller each year, and up to 10 to 12 cm taller each year. On average, girls can grow 5 to 7 cm taller each year, and up to 8 to 10 cm taller. This mainly relies on the growth of the lower limbs and spine. Generally, women stop growing in height between the ages of 19 and 23, and men stop growing in height between the ages of 23 and 26. The growth stops because the epiphyses of the whole body have closed. Women's epiphyses generally close earlier than men, so adult women are shorter than men. Adolescent boys and girls all hope to have a tall figure. How can they achieve this goal?

The development of height depends on several factors: the first is genetic factors, which account for 70%. In addition, it depends on other conditions, including exercise, nutrition, environment and social factors. Among them, exercise, as an important condition for human development, is the most effective and easy way to achieve. However, not all types of exercise are helpful for the growth of adolescent height. This article briefly discusses the relationship between exercise and the growth of adolescent height.

According to a survey, one year of physical exercise can make boys 1 to 2 centimeters taller than their peers who do not exercise, and girls 2 to 3 centimeters taller. Primary school students who exercise regularly are about 5 cm taller than those who do not exercise. Physical exercise can help you grow taller because, firstly, it can promote the secretion of growth hormone; secondly, it strengthens the blood supply to bone cells, which is beneficial to improving the proliferation capacity of epiphyseal cartilage; thirdly, it has a good stimulating effect on the proliferation of epiphyseal cartilage. Studies have shown that the secretion of growth hormone increases significantly after exercise. At the same time, exercise also exercises muscles and bones, making them stronger. Therefore, researchers at home and abroad unanimously agree that exercise helps to grow taller.

First of all, we need to understand what kind of exercise is beneficial. Exercise is not the same as labor. The latter's unchanging repetitive movements are not conducive to the development of height. Exercises that are beneficial to height growth should be those that develop the body in a completely coordinated manner. Simply put, exercises that can increase appetite, promote sleep, and apply a certain degree of longitudinal pressure to bones are beneficial for growing taller. Such as jogging, skipping rope, dancing, playing basketball and volleyball, etc. Emotional stability is also important for height growth, so it is best for young people to choose sports that they like. We believe that children and teenagers with short stature whose epiphyses have not healed can start special physical training to increase their height if the doctor believes they do not suffer from a disease related to short stature and have no other medical contraindications. It is also worth mentioning that bone development comes to a certain extent from longitudinal pressure, but excessive pressure (weightlifting, etc.) makes it difficult for bones to grow longitudinally. It is not suitable for growing teenagers to engage in strenuous exercise that consumes excessive physical energy.

It is very necessary for some people who are in adolescence to understand the exercises that affect height growth, because adolescence is an important period of growth and development for everyone. We must pay more attention to both diet and daily exercise. Only in this way can we avoid making mistakes that should not be made and live and learn better.