DOES WORKOUT EFFECTS YOUR HEIGHT

First of all i want to make it clear that your height depends upon your genetics(which is the passage of characteristics from parents to their children) and secondly on your diet.If your parents have good height there are 60% chances that you would have same good height. One can grow in height by the age of 21 years because the ends of bones called epiphysis fuse with the central part of bone called diaphysis. Max growth period is between 13 to 16 years of age for males and 11 to 14 years for females.

There are some environmental factors which can cause reduction in your height for example starvation,protein deficient diet,decrease growth hormone,obesity,lack of exercise and elevated levels of cholesterol and glucose in blood which also leads to heart diseases and diabetes.

FACTORS RELATED TO THE HEIGHT

SLEEP

Our body grows during sleep.Growth hormone is released during deep restful sleep which promote the growth of bones and muscles. REQUIREMENT OF SLEEP varys with age. So it is necessary to have a good undisturbed sleep atleast for 7-8 hrs

• In younger children of 12 to 18 years 10 to 20hr of restful sleep is required
• In mature adult person 7-9 hrs
• In old age 5-7hrs

NUTRITION

Nutrition also play an important role in the growth of the body in addition of suppling macronutrients which includes carbohydrates,proteins and fat also consumes foods which contains vitamin and minerals especially zn and cu.Nutritional deficiencies can leads to slow or even it can retards the growth.

BAD BODY POSTURE

Always try to stand with erect posture,maintain a stretch in your back bone when you hunch over or slough your spine is going to compress  and if you keep on doing same thing, this will leads to height reduction by  creating a hump in your spine. So instead of becoming a camel be a loin with erect and confident posture this will make you look taller,thinner and more presentable.

STRECHING EXERCISES FOR BACK 

Our back bone consists of 33 vertebrae which includes 7 cervical,12 thoracic,5lumber,and 9 fused consisting of sacram and coccyx these bones are separated from each other by vertebral discs which are fibrocartilagenous in nature and serve as cushions between the bones provide movement and stability to the back bone.

Most of the people never reach to their full height potential due to putting unnecessary pressure on their spine in the form of over head weight lifting and prolonged bad posture which leads to compression of vertebral discs in between the vertebral bones,this compression is responsible for 1-3 inches less height than max height potential.

Streching exercises for the back are helpful in gaining that reduced potential to reach the full height and adding few inches in the total height.
Performing stretching exercises will open the window for the nutrients to get access to the back bone which will cause them to become thicker and increase in size contributing to the height increase. Stretching exercises includes hanging,swimming and various poses of yoga like cobra.

Following things should be kept in mind before stretching the back to prevent any injury

• Perform stretching slowly otherwise you are going to tear your muscle.
• Strenthen your abdominal muscles by working those abs to gain overall strenght in your torsal region.
• Stetching should be performed slowly.
• If you are serious in increasing your height by stretching back bone be consistent and never loose patience. Performing exercise irregularly or haphazardly is not going to give you benefits.
• Hold the stretch for 20 to 30 sec to allow your muscles,joints and ligaments to loose which contributes to your flexibility.

EXERCISES INTERFERING WITH HEIGHT

We increase in height by the virtue of our spine growth,those things which can cause compression of our back bone definitely going to effect our height.

every workout is not going to effect your height you can train chest,back,abdomen,biceps,triceps and thighs without any risk of height issue with more weight.Training these individual muscles group makes you stronger and give you strength to your bones to withstand any injury or fracture, and lots of other benefits of workout which are not the topics of discussion.

WHICH WORKOUT IS GOING TO EFFECT YOUR HEIGHT

Any workout which involves lifting the weight overhead can effect your height for example 

SHOULDER WORKOUT

dumbell presses and barbell presses for the shoulder muscle because in this exercise back bone is going to compress to give support to your body and there is generation of pressure in the abdomen which also maintain you body in a posture to lift that weight effectively.using light weight for these exercise generate less stress to your back bone and minimize the height issues taking birth from them.

you can train the middle and front part of your shoulder muscles without any fear with heavy weight.

SQUATS

It is one of the compound exercise involving a group of muscles like quads,hamstring,glutes,abs and lower back muscles.In squats we place the barbells on our trapezius muscle which is a big muscles of back attached to the back bone so we are putting a lot of stress in the form of weight on our back bone which leads to its compression during exercise this can be a cause of growth retardation due to workout.So it is advised that pick light weight for overhead exercises and squats when you are under 21 years of age.

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