Exercises to increase Height

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September 30th, 2007



There are many people all over the world, who wish desperately to enhance their height. They want to have a good height but don’t know the proper ways to increase the height. Due to this many people lose opportunities to take part in many activities and try their choice of fields like army, police force, air force, modeling, air hostess and other fields where height is a demanding criteria. People try many different ways like medicine, acupressure treatments etc. to gain height; but these all are very expensive and doubtful ways and there is no 100% assurance whether it will work or not. The best way to gain height is to do some exercises to increase height.

There are many types of exercises like yoga, stretching and free hand exercises to increase height. Physical trainers and health science experts have accepted the fact that exercising is the best to increase height.

The different exercises to increase height are listed below:

Yoga:
Yoga is a very good form of exercising with no side effects. Few yoga exercises to increase your height are as follows:
Lie down straight on the floor. Let your body rest comfortably. Then slowly stretch your left foot in the direction of right and right foot in the direction of left. Do not stretch too hard. Then bring back your foot to the normal position. Now stretch your right foot towards right and left foot towards left, but follow the same guidelines while releasing.
Lie down on your stomach and chest. Keep your palms on the ground near the hips. Slowly bend your legs from your knees and lift the legs up. Let your thigh remain on the ground to provide you support. Now take your hands backward and try to hold your legs. Try to stretch your legs as much as possible while keeping your torso uplifted. Don’t try to stretch too much. And then relax slowly.

Stretching & Free Hand Exercises:

These exercises to increase height are very useful. Some of the exercises to increase height are as follows:
Forward Bend: To do this exercise stand straight with legs wide spread. Keep your hands up straight and then bend down forward and touch the floor with your hands, without breaking your knees, then return back to your original position.
Spot Jump: Keep your legs close. Stand on your toe and start jumping with your hand straight up in the air for at least 2 minutes.
Bar Hanging: Hold a bar that is at least 7 feet above the ground level (so that your foot doesn’t touch the ground when you hand on the bar with your arms straight). Now swing your body while hanging to the bar. Make sure you do not swing with the help of your wrist. Keep your spine straight while swinging.

There are many more exercises to increase height, but the above-mentioned are few basic and most practiced.