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Increase Your Height Through Ab Exercises

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Having good looking abs is constantly pounded home to us by the media and fitness people, and is probably the area of fitness that is the most concentrated on right now.

Virtually everyone who works out with any type of regularity probably uses at least one technique that focuses solely on the abdominal area.

While the back is usually an afterthought when it comes to ab exercises, the lower back is also the beneficiary of most of these abs workouts.

The same area that gets targeted at the front of our bodies is also being worked on in the back, making abs workouts a great way to also work on the lower back, increasing muscle strength, which helps ease the compression of the spine, helping you increase your height naturally.

Here are three ab exercises which can help flatten your tummy and strengthen and stretch out your back at the same time.

1. Lower Ab Crunch

Perform while on your lying on your back, on a decline bench ideally, but a flat surface will also do fine. Keeping your body still, raise your legs slowly up so your knees are as near to your upper body as they can get. This is a tremendous workout for your abdominal region.

2. Lying Crunch

Very much like the traditional sit-up that we all know and love (or dread), perform this on your back, though with your feet up in the air, either resting on a chair or other surface, or anchored against something.

Now make a traditional sit up move, going as far as you can.

You'll find that you can only rise about half the distance as you would be able to during a traditional sit-up, because of the positioning of your legs.

This technique should be quickly repeated for several reps, giving your abs a full blown workout in short duration. You can also hold your glutes to increase the tension in your abs for an added effect.

3. Back Hyperextensions

Find a surface where you can lie down flat on your stomach, with most of your body body suspended over the edge. A hard surface is preferred, but a bed can also suffice if necessary.

Now slowly lower your upper body down to the ground, then pull yourself back up again with no assistance from any other part of your body.

Your abs and back will be the stars of this routine, and the workout they'll receive from it is superb.

Grow Taller Exercises

These workouts are great for working on that stomach that we're all concerned about, while doing just as effective a job on your back as well, lengthening it and thus helping you grow taller.