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3 Stretching Exercises To Increase Your Height

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Increasing your height through natural methods can be accomplished through a few different means, but the best method used to achieve this goal is exercise, specifically stretching exercises. Continually working on muscles has been proven to stretch out those muscles, increasing the length of people's arms, legs, and back.

Stretching exercises are plentiful, some of which will be more enjoyable to different people. We'll look at three such exercises below and let you judge for yourself whether they're right for you.

1. Trunk Twist

Trunk Twist - The Trunk Twist puts your spine through a range of motion, helping to decompress the discs and increase height. It can also do wonders for your abs as well.

If you've done sit-ups before, you probably know the drill. Lie down on your back and anchor your feet beneath a solid object that can bear the force of your body. Unlike sit-ups, your feet must be anchored for this exercise, else balance is all but impossible to maintain.

You may be thinking this is like sit-ups where you touch your elbows to your knees in alternating fashion, but it's actually quite different. What you'll be doing is getting into a set position, halfway between lying down and sitting straight up.

With your hands clasped behind your head, you now want to simply swing your body slowly to each side, as far as you can. Repeat this 4 or 5 times to each side for optimal results.

2. Roll Over Stretch

This exercise will focus mainly on your lower back, greatly increasing flexibility and easing compression of the vertebral discs in your spine. This requires some level of flexibility to perform, and may not be possible for older or larger people.

Lie down on your back, and from here, with the help of your shoulders, lift your legs up and over your body, bringing your feet down behind your head. Keep your shoulders as flat as possible during this, and hold for 20-30 seconds.

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3. Wall Bridge

Find a position approximately two feet from a wall and stand with your back to it. You'll need to test this out once or twice to get a good feel for the necessary distance.

Now reach your hands up into the air and behind your head, all the way back until they're touching the wall, with your back still to the wall.

Now slowly use this leverage with the wall to walk down the wall with your hands, as far as you can go. Once you've reached your limit, climb slowly back up the wall with your hands, and then push off near the top to get back to a standing position.

This is a tremendous workout for flexibility of the back.

These three exercises of varied difficulty all help target the lower back, where spinal disc compression through years of gravity weighing down on your body have caused you to effectively be shorter than you could otherwise be.

These routines will help counter those effects and help you to grow taller.