Natural limb lengthening

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Bro accept the fact that no exercise or training that you do will make you increase your height by more than 2cm.

If you're a teenager then fair enough, exercising will help improve your genetic potential but only by a couple inches. You're only ever going to be 1-3 inches taller than your dad.

The only people i've met that have out grown their dad by more than 4-5 inches are people who's parents came from a poor country and didn't have good nutrition so when the child grows up in a richer country he becomes much taller than his father

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Sad thing is that my father is like 3 inches taller than me, he said he had a remarkable growth spurt at 18 and since I stopped growing early I had hopes but I'm past that. Still, even 2cm would be good.

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Quote from: Ronin on March 31, 2019, 09:14:34 AMWell, I know it would take a miracle for gains achievable by surgery, but if I could grow even 1cm or 2cm through means that would be otherwise beneficial for health, strength, mobility, etc. I would go for it. Perhaps natural lengthening wasn't studied because it only results in small gains that aren't very noticeable. I'm 1,70, right at the "borderline".

2cm is easily achievable without LL.

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Indeed, just let your hair grow and use styling gel. xD

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It is well-settled that weight-bearing activity will increase bone mass and density at any age of life; AND, weight-bearing is often necessary to stimulate hard bone growth.

The above is why orthopedists face the dilemma of encouraging weight-bearing activity but not so much weight or activity as to put your orthopedic device (nail or frames) at risk.

Studies show that, for example, a professional tennis player's racquet arm contains significantly more bone than the opposite arm.  Likewise, professional sprinters grow larger leg bones.  However, professional swimmers have regular bones due to the absence of weight-bearing or bone-jarring activity.

Understanding the above concepts, it remains difficult for me to imagine that one could increase his or her height in a meaningful way by doing jump squats.  Certainly, jump squats should lead to larger, denser bones but NOT likely to the extent that they make a significant difference in height.

While I have NOT reviewed any studies on height difference due to weight-bearing, it seems to me (as someone wrote above) that 1-2 cm would be about the max.  It will be interesting if someone identifies a valid on-point study.

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Quote from: myloginacc on April 03, 2019, 04:13:42 PM2cm is easily achievable without LL.

Really?How?I hope It isn't my hair's job......

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What do you think about ankle weights, could they help the bones grow in length rather than thickness coupled with the rest? I'd like to improvise my own, something both heavy and discreet, to wear with loose track pants.

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Quote from: Ronin on April 04, 2019, 05:37:45 AMWhat do you think about ankle weights, could they help the bones grow in length rather than thickness coupled with the rest? I'd like to improvise my own, something both heavy and discreet, to wear with loose track pants.

If it actually worked and had a significant increase of height, let's be honest... Do you think you're just discovering it now? Would you not be seeing full facilities of short people hanging on pullup bars with stupid weights strapped to their legs? I'm not sure what you're getting at with this thread. There is really no legitimate "alternative" natural limb lengthening to discover here.

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That may have no effect by itself, only alongside running, cycling and swimming. And it doesn't have to be significant.

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CLL is the only way to get significantly taller. No exercises will do the trick. Like I said, perhaps a cm (or two) at most. And even that will have to be maintained.