We know how easy it is to be sceptical of much of what you hear online. Wild claims and broken promises litter the internet like candy from a busted pinata. You may have heard about these claims before and thought they were nothing but nonsense.
As crazy as it may sound though, it is in fact quite true. Plenty of studies have been conducted in recent years which prove exactly that. Stretching can indeed stretch out your muscles, increasing limb length and height.
A good example is Major League baseball pitchers. These guys throw thousands of pitches a year, whether it be in games, warming up, or practice during the off-season, and that constant force on their arm has led the majority of them to have throwing arms that are 1-2 inches longer than their non-throwing arms. That's a considerable difference.
Even non-pitchers like most of us will find that our dominant arm is longer than our other arm by about half an inch, through the simple additional tasks that we give to it over the other arm. Measure your arms and see if these results aren't true, or simply hold your arms straight out in front of you and then bring them together, meeting at a point in the center of your body.
Of course, having longer arms won't make you taller, so what kinds of exercises will, and how exactly do they work? In most cases these workouts target two key areas, your legs, and your spine.
Your spine is composed of a number of discs sandwiched between vertebrae. By targeting the spine with stretching exercises, these discs can be strengthened, and the space between each vertebra lengthened, increasing height.
Here's another fun task you can perform to see just how flexible the spinal column truly is, and how the contracting and expanding of it is no myth. The daily rigors of walking and standing, and the forces of gravity on your spine actually work to compress it as the day extends. When you sleep (assuming you don't sleep standing up of course), your spine will decompress, as the pressures of gravity are taken off it.
Measure your height just before you go to bed, and then again immediately after waking up. You should find that you're a good inch taller in the morning than you were the night before. Now you can see that through strengthening the discs and cartilage in the spine, this separation of the vertebrae can be maintained, giving you a permanent increase in height.
Hopefully you've had fun with these tasks and learned a few things about height gain along the way. With some simple stretching exercises, height gain is very much possible. You have nothing to lose, and a few inches to gain. - 16650
As crazy as it may sound though, it is in fact quite true. Plenty of studies have been conducted in recent years which prove exactly that. Stretching can indeed stretch out your muscles, increasing limb length and height.
A good example is Major League baseball pitchers. These guys throw thousands of pitches a year, whether it be in games, warming up, or practice during the off-season, and that constant force on their arm has led the majority of them to have throwing arms that are 1-2 inches longer than their non-throwing arms. That's a considerable difference.
Even non-pitchers like most of us will find that our dominant arm is longer than our other arm by about half an inch, through the simple additional tasks that we give to it over the other arm. Measure your arms and see if these results aren't true, or simply hold your arms straight out in front of you and then bring them together, meeting at a point in the center of your body.
Of course, having longer arms won't make you taller, so what kinds of exercises will, and how exactly do they work? In most cases these workouts target two key areas, your legs, and your spine.
Your spine is composed of a number of discs sandwiched between vertebrae. By targeting the spine with stretching exercises, these discs can be strengthened, and the space between each vertebra lengthened, increasing height.
Here's another fun task you can perform to see just how flexible the spinal column truly is, and how the contracting and expanding of it is no myth. The daily rigors of walking and standing, and the forces of gravity on your spine actually work to compress it as the day extends. When you sleep (assuming you don't sleep standing up of course), your spine will decompress, as the pressures of gravity are taken off it.
Measure your height just before you go to bed, and then again immediately after waking up. You should find that you're a good inch taller in the morning than you were the night before. Now you can see that through strengthening the discs and cartilage in the spine, this separation of the vertebrae can be maintained, giving you a permanent increase in height.
Hopefully you've had fun with these tasks and learned a few things about height gain along the way. With some simple stretching exercises, height gain is very much possible. You have nothing to lose, and a few inches to gain. - 16650
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Rodney Williams is a regular writer on Natural Ways To Grow Taller. Check out his website for more articles on Exercise To Increase Height.
