Either you want to be a better basketball player or you want to make women stare at you. In any case, the important thing is to be as tall as you can. It’s a fact that all the best jobs are offered to taller people. God knows why, but they are also well paid for the work. In this article you will come across different techniques and workouts to help you grow taller.

The first and most important thing to take into consideration is your body’s growing ability. Our body goes through many transformations during puberty. This is the period in which a person’s body goes through growth spurts and may tend to grow more in a short while. This happens due to timely secretions of HGH which takes place a couple of times during puberty. Given below are stretching exercises that can be done at your own home to aid you in growing taller then you are.

Sit on your bottom, legs spread as wide as possible, reach out to the center and hold for about 5 seconds. Now slowly lean towards your left leg, inhaling as you go, and hold for 5 seconds. Continue by reaching back to the center, exhaling as you go, and again hold for 5 seconds. Then reach toward the right leg, again inhaling as you go. Repeat this procedure for about 5 minutes. It stimulates the pituitary gland and helps your legs grow longer, which is the main contributor to height.

Another exercise to help you grow taller is through the use of a stationary bike. Most people don’t know this but marathon bicyclers have very long legs. It’s because of the continuous movement of moving your legs. It greatly lengthens your legs over time. The trick is to move up your seat on the bike so that your legs are straight as they push down. This helps with stimulating your legs to grow longer. The longer you use the stationary bike, the better. Try to cycle for at least 30 minutes, but if that’s too difficult try 15 minutes and then take a break. If you can, continue right after that for another 15 minutes.

Here’s one for the basketball players. A really good exercise that helps you grow taller is jumping! Several nerves connected at the sole of your feet are also connected to your thyroid and pituitary glands which are responsible for releasing the hormones needed for your body to grow. Jumping allows for the production of an electric current to flow through your body and it tells your brain, “Hey, I want to grow!” That’s why basketball players are very tall. They jump and reach out every day so they can’t help but grow very tall.

I hope that you will practice these home exercises that can add inches to your height. All that a person can do is just hope for the very best and keep trying.