Eight exercises to make your child taller
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In addition to paying attention to supplemental nutrition, ensuring sleep and preventing diseases, moderate exercise can help children grow taller.
8 exercises to make children taller (masshealth.com)
Previous studies have shown that children who regularly participate in physical exercise are on average 4 to 8 cm taller than children of the same age who do not participate in exercise, so it is recommended that children exercise outdoors every day.
What kind of exercise helps to grow taller? First of all, we should choose the sports that children like according to their personality and physical characteristics. Never force children to do sports they don't like, otherwise it will affect children's emotions and is not good for growing taller. On the basis of the child's favourite, according to the child's age and level of motor development, you can choose jumping, touch high, jogging, jumping rope, cycling, shuttlecock, basketball, volleyball, ballet, stretching gymnastics, swimming and pull-ups and other sports. These sports can play the role of pulling muscles and ligaments, stimulate epiphyseal cartilage proliferation, the growth of the spine and limb bones is very favourable. However, it is important to note that we should not be in a hurry, because long-term overload exercise can cause cartilage damage, muscle strain, but is not conducive to the normal growth and development of the child.
Exercise is best to ensure that the child's heart rate reaches 120 to 140 times / minute, exercise to the child sweating, fever, rosy-cheeked for appropriate. Let the child do some jumping sports, promote the effectiveness of height development is far stronger than blindly buy height increase class health products.
Exercise prescription
1. After getting up in the morning and jogging for 5 to 7 minutes, do flexibility and relaxation exercises for 20 minutes, including doing leg splits, bending back and forth, shaking and shaking the body and other actions.
2. Hanging on the bar (20-30 seconds each time). You can do hanging without load, and then do hanging with load; do positive hand-hold hanging, and also do hanging upside down (feet fixed with bandage).
3. Jumping and touching. Take turns doing jumps on both feet and on one foot. Each exercise should be done to the best of your ability, aiming to jump as high as possible each time.
4. Ascend a small slope or staircase 20 to 30 metres high, relax when you go up, add enough speed when you go down, repeat 2 to 4 times.
5. Ask two people to assist, one holding hands, the other grasping the feet, at the same time to the opposite direction of the body gently pull, 20 seconds each time.
6. Swimming.
7. Play basketball and volleyball.
8. Jumping. Every day jumping, self-practice, from less to more, can be done in the morning and evening, jumping more than 200 times a day.
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