By the healthiergang writer , student in Physiotherapy.
How to Get Taller?
Affect your stature it's practically impossible by carrying out certain exercises. There is no movement or any technique, at least until now known, that allows you to increase your stature.
Height is genetically determined.
It is the result of a lot of information contained in several of our genes. Could be affected by proper nutrition.
An insufficient supply of nutrients can hinder this process or even stop it. An extreme case are the conditions of eating disorders such as anorexia where the subject reaches a threshold of severe underweight and in response the body no longer carries out some metabolic processes in order to preserve energy.
In reverse a balanced diet, rich in essential macro nutrients and micro nutrients, it allows excellent development.
The growing process is something very complicated, uses significant amounts of energy substrate and is influenced by numerous hormones and other substances. In general, a correct development of the structure of a body can be favored with a balanced training that leads to good muscle development and prevents overweight.
In fact, being overweight can negatively affect development leading to the construction of a non-normal bone structure which in the future will lead to problems of various kinds.
From what has been said it is important to train properly during the development period because the body is still able to grow and change. The body adapts to the stimulus under which it is subjected and therefore, in addition to the muscles, bones, tendons, joints, etc. are also strengthened.
Basically it is as if it were a growing plant. If this is properly fertilized, given the correct amounts of water and is exposed to light in an optimal way then it will be better able to express its full growth potential.
On the contrary, if it is not treated, it lacks the necessary nutrients and the sun exposure is insufficient, it suffers and develops poorly.
Elongation of the Spine
There is one element of what has just been said that is very important: the body adapts to the stimuli to which it is subjected.
By gradually and intelligently increasing the workload, the bones and the rest of the structures of the musculoskeletal system are also strengthened.
There is also another element to consider. There are exercises that compress the spine while there are others that allow you to stretch it. These variations are minimal but can still cause long-term problems.
This means that if there is no certain balance between compression exercises of the spine and exercises that allow it to stretch this body structure suffers. For example if you train only with exercises such as squats, deadlifts, slow forward, flat bench press, etc. the spine continues to be compressed.
The spine is a very complex structure of the body, simplifying this it is composed of vertebrae between here are placed some sort of "bearings" which are able to deform to allow a little mobility. Since the vertebrae are so many, these small movements added together result in a great overall mobility.
By doing exercises that axially load the body, the spine is compressed. Continuing to compress the spine it develops stiffness and chronic compressions that cause problems and pain of various kinds.
Other exercises, first of all the tractions, allow instead to lengthen the spine and "loosen" these stiffness and compressions.
This does not mean that if you do a lot of pull-ups then your spine lengthens and you get taller; rather it means that a balance between compression and elongation forces leads to greater well-being of the back and in general of the whole body.
Exercises
The exercises that compress the spine are numerous, the most effective are:
? tractions
? Pull down
? Seals at the bar
? Put raise
? Reverse bar seals
Pull-ups and pull-downs could be inserted as a super set between one series of heavy squats and the next. There is not much carry over between the two movements and so you can take advantage of the rest to de-compress the back and some additional training for the back muscles.
Seals on the bar consist of hanging on to the bar and letting yourself be dangled by taking deep, full breaths.
Le held at the reverse bar consist of hanging with the feet on the bar (perhaps using special anklets) and always relaxing and taking deep and complete breaths. These two can be entered at the beginning or at the end of your training session. The leg raise is an excellent exercise for the abdominals and therefore can be easily inserted as desired in your training routine.
