How to Grow Taller After Puberty

It is a common known fact that your body frame and height is mostly decided by your genetic combination. But even then everyone expects to have at least an average height.

I must state that you need to love yourself regardless, however if you want to be a bit taller, here are the things you can do:

If you have a desire to grow tall and add a few inches to your height naturally through exercises, this is the Hub for you. Whatever your age may be, the exercises given in this article will help you gain extra height through natural exercises. These workouts are scientifically proven to increase height even after puberty, if done properly and regularly. By stretching and flexing your body, these exercises will stimulate your body to secrete HGH(Human Growth Hormone), which will increase your body height.

Exercises for growing tall
A good combination of exercises and diet is the right approach for achieving the desired result. Let us check out some of the exercises you need to try for growing height:

1. VERTICAL HANGING:

This is a simple but an extremely effective stretching exercise which you can do at your home. All you need to have is a solid bar strong enough to hold an individual, fixed at least 7 feet above the ground such that the distance between your feet and the floor is at least 4-6 inches. Hold your arms neither closer nor wider and start hanging. Hold as long as you can, and as you begin to tire, slowly swing back and forth and try to touch the ground with your feet. This will flex your spine and elongate it, so that you can add few inches to your height

Make sure that you flex your spine while stretching, and not merely twisting your wrists

Perform the Workout 3 times a week for optimal results

2. COBRA STRETCH:

This is basically a Yoga exercise intended to stretch your spine and make it supple and flexible, so that the cartilage between your vertebrae grows thereby increasing your vertical height

Lie on the floor face down with palms on the floor under your shoulders. Begin to arch your spine up leading with your chin. Arch as far back as possible. Do 3-4 repetitions with each repetition lasting between 5-30 seconds

3. PILATES ROLL OVER:

This is an excellent workout to stretch your spine and lengthen your upper body. Apart from your spine, it also stretches and lenghthens the vertebrae of your neck.

Lie on your back with your arms along your sides, palms down. With your legs together, extend them straight up toward the ceiling and bend them backwards so that they touch the floor. It may not be possible to touch the floor at first, but you can do this by practice. The more your stretch, the more your spine lenghthens

4. FORWARD SPINE STRETCH:

Sit up tall on a mat. Your legs are extended about shoulder width apart, and your feet are flexed. Reach the top of your head but let your shoulders stay relaxed. Inhale and extend your arms out in front of you and slowly bend forward and try to touch the tips of your toes. If you are able to touch your toetips, stretch even forward so that your spine is flexed to the maximum extent.

Do 3-4 repetitions and hold each stretch for 10-15 seconds

5. ANKLE WEIGHTS: This exercise is solely intended to increase the length of your lower body, by stretching the cartilate between your knees. Prolonged stretching will elongate the cartilage and increase its mass, which in turn will increase the length your lower body

Sit on a high chair and use a Ankle weight fastener to add weights to your ankle. Start with small weights initially and gradually increase as you go on. Allow your legs to stretch down with the pressure of the weights. Once completed, remove the weights and relax your legs by kicking your legs gently for 5-10 times, and then vigorously for 5-10 times. This will flex your knee cartilate to enable it to grow in length

Perform the Workout 3 times a week for optimal results

Apart from exercises, your body needs HGH(Human Growth hormone) that is essential for the growth of the long bones of your body. HGH is secreted in your body by the pituitary gland and it helps in the growth of bones and cartilages in your body. Through HGH is naturally produced inside your body, you need ample Growth Hormone to ensure maximum growth of your body. Artificial HGH can be obtained through Pills and Sprays and these augment the growth of your body.

The best and most effective HGH enhancer is the amino acid Arginine, which is available in its pure form as L-Arginine. L-Arginine stimulates the pituitary gland to secrete growth hormone and thereby increase your height. L-Arginine works well when combined with L-Ornithine, which is an other amino acid. L-Arginine also works well with L-Lysine and L-Glutamine. Arginine/L-Arginine supplements are available in Pills and the popular brands are Growth Enhancer, Growth Flex, Growth Booster etc

FOODS THAT STIMULATE THE GROWTH HORMONE

Growth hormones are responsible for the development of lean body tissue, bone density and an efficient metabolism. With age, the body's natural production of growth hormone decreases. This is because of physiological changes that occur with aging such as weight gain, and high sugar levels or high fatty acids levels in the blood. There are factors, however, that a person can control in order to stimulate release of growth hormone, such as proper nutrition choices, states A Healthier Life.

Animal Protein

Protein consists of the amino acids that help the body tissues to repair and grow. According to A Healthier Life, growth hormones require the presence of all amino acids in order to perform their functions in the body. The presence of the amino acids aids the growth hormones to aid in activities such as growth, tissue repair and mobilization of fat stores. Animal sources contain high amounts of protein. Sources include meat, lean poultry and lean turkey. Another good source of protein includes seafood such as salmon, tuna and cod. Dairy products can also offer good amounts of protein and include foods like milk, natural yogurt and cottage cheese.

Plant Proteins

Eating a variety of animal and plant protein sources is favorable for a healthy, well-balanced diet. According to Bodybuildingforyou.com, supplementing animal sources of protein with soy protein is recommended. The animal proteins contain an important amino acid, lysine, which may increase bad cholesterol in the body. Soy protein, however, contains an amino acid, arginine, that may decrease bad cholesterol in the body. Soy food sources do contain good amounts of protein and can stimulate the growth hormones to increase in the body. Good examples of soy proteins include tofu, tempeh and edamame.

Low-Glycemic Carbohydrates

According to Bodybuildingforyou.com, carbohydrates are also important to eat in order to stimulate growth hormones. They must be eaten in good balance with proteins in the diet. Low-glycemic carbohydrates are good choices because they supply the body with a steady supply of blood sugar. This ensure that no sugar spikes or crashes occur and that the body is given a steady and satiating energy source. Low-glycemic carbohydrates include whole grains such as rolled oats, barley, whole-grain cereals and whole-grain bread. Other good sources are the fruits and vegetables groups, particularly green leafy vegetables, collard greens and broccoli.

The 3 most important amino acids to help increase your HGH levels are L-Arginine, L-Ornithine and L-Lysine, below are foods that are high in these amino acids.

Foods high in L-Arginine

• Are plant and soy protein which are much higher in L-Arginine than animal protein.
• Nuts, sunflower seeds & sesame seeds
• Chocolate, popcorn & carob
• Raisins
• Brown rice, oatmeal & whole wheat bread
• Gelatin desserts
• Fermented foods such as miso and yoghurt

Foods high in L-Ornithine

• Meat
• Fish
• Dairy products
• Eggs

Food sources of L-Lysine

• Good sources of lysine are foods rich in protein including meat (specifically red meat, pork, and poultry)
• Cheese (particularly parmesan)
• Certain fish (such as cod and sardines)
• Nuts
• Eggs
• Soybeans (particularly tofu, isolated soy protein, and defatted soybean flour),
• Spirulina
• Fenugreek seed.

Whereas the foods from the above list can help with increasing your HGH levels, at the end of the day you would have to eat a large amount of these foods to make a significant difference.

There is one food that increases your Arginine and Ornithine levels quite considerably and that is Watermelon, below is two articles on studies conducted with watermelon. Keep in mind if you increase these two amino acids it will help increase your HGH levels.

WATERMELON JUICE AND INCREASED ARGININE LEVELS

 Imagine drinking watermelon juice and taking Natural HGH Complex as well, it would certainly be a potent little mixture.