The TRUTH about GROWTH PLATES ★ 2019 UPDATE ★

You've got your spine and in between each of those discs , you have a fluid stack throughout the day as you are standing and as gravity is pulling down on you , the axial pressure from your head and your shoulders is compressing those fluid diss .

So if you do measure yourself throughout the day , you might notice that you're actually slightly getting shorter from the moment you wake up to the moment that you're going to bed .

So these stretches are going to help you really lengthen your spine and make sure that those fluid discs aren't getting super compressed .

Plus it's just going to feel really good and you're going to look a lot more confident .

So today , I'm going to share with you stretches that are really going to feel good for lengthening your spine and improving your posture .

So the first one I learned in a fitness pole dancing class and I loved it so much because it really lengthened my spine and took the tension away from my shoulders .

That goal post position , make sure that your shoulders , your elbows , the back of your hand and also your spine are all touching the wall .

This will help ensure that you are having good posture while you are doing this movement , you don't want to arch that lower back .

So you might have to tuck the tailbone in , squeeze your core to make sure that this is happening .

But imagine there's a crown on top of your head and stand as tall as possible as you are doing .

These wall angels chest openers on a wall are amazing for battling that hunch .

So what you want to do is stand parallel to a wall , feet , one in front , one behind and place your palm right behind your arm straight and you want to twist away from the wall as best as you can feel that stretch in your chest and in the shoulder , make sure to turn around and do the other side .

But what you want to do is walk down the wall , walk up the wall , walk down and walk up , making sure that you are very careful when you're getting back up so that you don't have a head rush .

This is really going to give you mobility , flexibility in your chest , your spine and your shoulders .

Another great back strengthening move is the swim arm .

So you're going to be on your belly if you can and you're going to extend both arms forward , both legs long and back .

You're going to inhale on the X , you're going to lift up the chest and lift up the quads arm straight leg straight and then you're simply going to paddle opposite arm , opposite leg as if they're swimming through the ocean .

Ok .

Eyes are going to remain down on the mat .

This move takes a lot of strength and flexibility in your entire back .

So take your time with this .

If you do the full minute , great .

If not take it in chunks , and you can also go slow .

You don't have to be elevated the entire time .

You can always rest one arm and one leg down as the opposite is raising .

So what gives ?

How can you have a closed growth plate in the wrist and yet still grow taller ?

Doesn't make any sense .

The actual truth is that wrists , hands , fingers , ankles , feet and toes are usually the first bones to fuse and aren't necessarily the bones that contribute to height .

In fact , what I found out is that the bones that go towards growth , which are ones in the legs and also the spine , can actually close years after the ones in the wrist , hands and feet close , which is crazy .

So the amount of people that are perhaps have given up on their grow taller dreams just because of an x-ray is probably in the thousands .

So just be careful what advice you listen to .

Instead of having everything up and moving .

At the same time , the strength in your spine is going to take attack .

Next .

You've got the bow pose incredible for opening up the shoulders , the chest and also lengthening and decompressing that spine .

But you have to do it with proper form or else you can end up kind of compressing that lower spine .

Ok .

So what you're going to do is lay on the belly , you're going to grab your ankles or your feet with your hands , you're going to inhale on the exhale , you're going to your back , squeeze your cord and lift up the chest and lift up the quad .

If you can't reach your feet with your hands , you can actually use a towel or use a yoga strap to achieve that to make sure that you are not compressing the lower back and the spine .

What you want to do is think about lifting up , don't think about bending back because that's going to compress the spine .

You'll feel the difference crown of the head to the ceiling as you lift , that's going to make the entire difference for you .

And if bo pose is just way too intense , you can take this into a camel .

So both knees hip with a part hands on the lower back or on the upper booty as you open the chest and bend your spine backwards .

If you're feeling super intense , you can also place the hands on the ankle and open up the chest to the ceiling .

There are so many variations for you to work through .

Finally , puppy pose .

This one feels so so good .

So you're gonna place a yoga block in front of you .

If you have one or something similar to that , I think a bunch of pillows could work as well .

Your knees are gonna be underneath your hips .

You're gonna place the elbows on top of the block as you press your chest down into the mat .

Honestly , you can just hang out here .

I love how this one feels as you get more flexible .

You can even add more blocks .

The reason being when you do heavy weights , you're gonna release high amounts of testosterone .

So if you're very young and you're releasing high testosterone , then the chances are you are gonna prematurely close your growth plates , and it's the exact same thing with oestrogen .

If your oestrogen levels are too high and you don't get them checked early on , then there could be a risk that you may accidentally close your plates when you could have taken a supplement to bring your levels back down from your doctor .

Now I know people are gonna say , But Lance , you always give the example of Arnold Kneer , who grew to 6 ft two even though he did do heavy weights in early adolescence .

But the whole goal is to press the chest down into the mat .

This is going to relieve tension in the neck , in the shoulders , elongate the spine and really decompress your back .

It should feel really , really good .

All right , you guys , those are some of my favorite stretches for taller .

Remember these stretches are meant to really decompress your spine and help you reach your maximal height .

If you see any videos that are saying that certain stretches are going to grow your bows , that's probably not going to happen .

I've seen a lot of videos on youtube claiming that these stretches could increase your height by up to two inches and I looked into it and it turns out that when certain astronauts are in space , they actually do increase their height by about two inches because the gravity isn't pulling down on them .

So that's kind of where that two inch thing comes from .

These stretches are meant to help you reach your maximal height , not to make your bones grow .

I just want to make that really , really clear .

So I hope these stretches help improve your posture and help you look a little bit taller and more confident when you're walking into the room .

Good luck .

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