How to Make Myself Taller Naturally

If you desire to be just a little taller than you presently are, there are ways to increase your height somewhat by engaging in certain exercises that specifically target the spine and surrounding cartilage.

Things You'll Need

• Exercise mat
• Free weights

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Instructions

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  Do yoga. Yoga strengthens and lengthens your spine. Practicing yoga postures will improve your posture and you will look taller and may even be taller if you are standing up straight. According to Yogiclogic.com, doing yoga regularly frees your spinal cord of tension and your ligaments and muscles become properly aligned, perhaps for the first time ever. When your body is aligned, this improves your posture, which makes you taller. Doing forward bends from a seated position, as shown in the first image, is a great way of strengthening the back. Doing the plough and the cobra yoga positions are great for stretching and toning the back. In essence, you are not actually growing any taller as a result of doing yoga--you are simply making the most of your actual height by standing straighter, which occurs when the body is realigned and tension is released from your body.

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  Cleanse your body via yoga to lengthen the spinal column discs. While yoga won't lengthen your bones, it provides other benefits, including clearing the system of toxins, increasing blood circulation, boosting energy levels and increasing the fluid in the discs of the spinal column as well as strengthening the cartilage in the spinal column. All of this will definitely make you look taller because you will become healthier as a result of doing yoga, as well as more flexible and agile. You'll also carry yourself in a manner befitting someone who feels good and perky.

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  Give Pilates a shot. This form of exercise strengthens your core, or midsection. The stronger your abdomen and your back muscles are, the straighter you are going to stand.

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  Do exercises that specifically target your back. Growingtallerguide.com recommends doing back exercises that will help lengthen your spine including doing stretches that stretch and strengthen the vital back muscles. Stretching the spine gives the cartilage the chance to soak up fluid from your system. When it soaks up liquids, this thickens the cartilage and you may become a little taller. You can also strengthen your back muscles by lifting free weights. Your back muscles help you maintain good posture and have a bearing on the curve of your spine. Weak back muscles equal poor posture. Poor posture, slumping shoulders, rounded back and a pooched out stomach put pressure on your spine's cartilage and this compresses the discs, which makes you shorter.

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  Swim and dangle. Swimming may actually increase your height because it stretches the body. Hanging from a bar, holding onto the bar with both hands, lengthens and straighten the spine. Use a wider grip when hanging if you want a wider back and shoulders.