Learn How to Gain Height Even After Puberty
October 14th, 2009 6:27 amIf you are under the impression that it is impossible to grow taller after puberty, you are wrong! Everybody has the potential to be more than 2-3 inches taller even though you think your bones have already fused. The reason is that a large percentage of the body, the vertebral column, never fuses.
The vertebral column accounts for 35 percent of your height. It is made of 33 bones (vertebrae) out of which 24 are separate. 9 of the lowermost vertebrae are fused into two fixed bones. The 33 movable ones can be stretched out through exercise because the shock-absorbing material between them, the inter-vertebral discs, is expandable.
Four of such stretching exercises that make you grow taller after puberty are described here. They thicken the inter-vertebral discs with fluid content and thereby lengthen the vertebral column.
Dog and Cat Pose: Get down on all fours. Inhale, lift your tailbone, lift your head, and curve the spine down. Stretch. Exhale, tilt your tailbone down, bend your head down, and curve the spine up. Keep alternating the dog and cat positions several times.
Spinal Twist on Chair: Sit straight on a chair with feet flat on the floor. Place the left ankle on the right knee. Let your hands hang by the sides. Breathe in and stretch your upper trunk over the left ankle. Take 10 deep breaths. Relax with each breath. Repeat with change in leg positions.
Cobra Pose: Lie on the floor on your stomach, with arms by the sides and hands close to your chest. Tighten your buttocks, breathe in and raise up your head and chest as far up as possible. Hold for a few breaths, come down and repeat 3-4 times. It is important to tighten the glutes in order to protect the lower back.
Shoulder Fan: Stand straight with feet together. Interlock your hands behind your back. Now without bending your elbows, bring your shoulders up, back, down and forward and repeat this circular motion several times. Reverse the direction and repeat. Perform slowly and deliberately, taking short rests between sets. So these were 4 of the many effective stretching exercises on how to increase height.
Follow these stretches along with regular aerobic exercise, proper nutrition and deep sleep to gain in height even if you have long passed puberty.
