How to Grow Taller: An Article for Young People Who Want to Gain Height!

How to Grow Taller?

Height is partly genetic, but that doesn’t mean your genes decide everything. Here are 3 tips you can follow to improve your chances of growing taller:

1. Train or do physical activity at least 3 times per week.
2. Consume calcium and all of its food sources.
3. Go to sleep before 9 PM.

These tips need to be followed for years, and they rarely produce instant results—but it’s certain that you’re giving your body the right stimuli to grow. Let’s explain each tip in more detail.

TRAIN at least 3 days per week

Physical activity develops the body overall, and it also helps with growth hormone (we also mentioned this in the hormone chapter). Here’s a good tip for you at ages 12–14 and for parents who have kids in this age range:

Try to have your child participate in as many sports as possible before the age of 18.

Each sport has different movement elements that build coordination and athletic skills. Certain sports like basketball involve catching and throwing with the hands, which improves hand–eye coordination.

Other sports involve jumping and sprinting, such as athletics (track) and football (soccer). These sports develop the legs—and we already explained the importance of leg development in the hormone chapter (testosterone).

By learning different movement skills, a child stimulates growth and overall development. Ideally, I would recommend this plan:

• Ages 6–11: practice individual sports such as athletics (track), swimming, tennis, badminton, climbing, cycling, or skiing.
• Ages 11–16: practice team sports such as basketball, football (soccer), volleyball, and handball.
• Ages 16–20: choose one sport and specialize in it.

But if you’re a teenager aged 15–18, that doesn’t mean you have no hope of growing taller. You can choose a specific sport, or simply join a gym—this will cover the “training” part that provides growth stimulus. Going to sleep early will help a lot, and so will calcium-rich foods. You can still grow, just at a slightly smaller rate.

Include stretching

Training should also include stretching exercises. Stretching forces the muscles to lengthen by holding them under tension for several seconds. Stretching is also great for posture. Young people often round their shoulders forward and don’t stand straight. Stretching improves posture—and when your posture improves, you look taller.

We’ll talk about posture in more detail in another article.

Another thing about stretching (even though it doesn’t directly increase height) is that keeping muscles elastic doesn’t “block” the bones from growing. We know muscles attach to bones. The idea is that when muscles are very tight, they may limit how much the body can extend fully. That’s why after training—or even 1–2 times per day—you should do stretching.

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