Read About How to Stretch and Become Taller Even After Puberty

If you are under the impression that it is impossible to grow taller after puberty, you are wrong! Everybody has the potential to be more than 2-3 inches taller even though you think your bones have already fused. The reason is that a large percentage of the body, the vertebral column, never fuses.

The vertebral column accounts for 35 percent of your height. It is made of 33 bones (vertebrae) out of which 24 are separate. 9 of the lowermost vertebrae are fused into two fixed bones. The 33 movable ones can be stretched out through exercise because the shock-absorbing material between them, the inter-vertebral discs, is expandable.

Explained here are 4 such stretching exercises that lengthen the spine and take it through its entire range of motion so that circulation and fluid content of the inter-vertebral discs increase, making you grow taller after puberty.

Dog and Cat Pose: Get down on all fours. Inhale, lift your tailbone, lift your head, and curve the spine down. Stretch. Exhale, tilt your tailbone down, bend your head down, and curve the spine up. Keep alternating the dog and cat positions several times.

Spinal Twist on Chair: Sit straight on a chair with feet flat on the floor. Place the left ankle on the right knee. Let your hands hang by the sides. Breathe in and stretch your upper trunk over the left ankle. Take 10 deep breaths. Relax with each breath. Repeat with change in leg positions.

Lower Back Stretch on Chair: Sit straight on a chair with feet flat on the floor. Interlock your hands behind your lower back. Squeeze hands together, bend forward at the waist parallel to the floor and stretch. Raise your interlocked hands straight above your back. Take 10 long breaths. Relax.

Shoulder Release on Chair: Sit straight on a chair with feet flat on the floor and arms resting on your thighs. Breathe in slowly and roll your shoulders up to the earlobes. Breathe out slowly and roll them down. Feel the stretch in your spine. Do 5 full circles. So these were four excellent stretching exercises on how to increase height.

Follow these stretches along with regular aerobic exercise, proper nutrition and deep sleep to gain in height even if you have long passed puberty.