How effective is strength training for growing taller?

If a person is too short, it will look ugly. If a girl is shorter, it is not a big problem, but if a boy is too short, he will look very thin and will be restricted when doing many things. When growing taller during adolescence, many people will try their best to increase their height quickly. Some people like to use strength training to grow taller, but they don’t know what the effect is. Here the editor will tell you about the effect of strength training in growing taller.

When children grow, they first grow taller and then gain weight. Moreover, their muscles are weak and they get tired easily. In other words, physical development is mainly based on bone growth and has not yet entered the peak period of muscle growth. If children are allowed to do muscle-weight strength training too early at this time, firstly, the local muscles of the children will be too strong, affecting the balanced development of various parts of the body; secondly, the muscles will be stimulated and developed too early, causing a heavier burden on organs such as the heart; in addition, it may cause local muscles to become stiff and lose their normal elasticity. Therefore, parents should not let their children engage in strength exercises such as pull-ups, push-ups, and sit-ups that adults often practice. If you want to practice muscle strength, it is more appropriate to start from the first or second year of junior high school.

People often think that they have to use weight-bearing exercises to build muscle strength, but this is not the case. Freehand exercises can also develop muscle strength. Before puberty, it is generally not advisable to use weights. Professor Toshihiro Ishikawa, a Japanese physiology doctor, believes that weight-bearing exercises before the age of 10 are not only unhelpful, but can easily lead to injuries; even if some weight-bearing exercises are performed after puberty, the load should not be too large.

Excessive load increases the resistance to heart ejection, which can easily cause the ventricular wall to thicken prematurely and restrict the development of the ventricular cavity, which is not conducive to improving the heart function of children and adolescents. Various freehand exercises can be used to activate their muscles and increase their strength. This should start from early childhood; weight-bearing exercises should be started after entering puberty.

When doing strength training, you need to decide whether it is suitable for growing taller based on your age. For example, people like us in our 20s will hardly grow taller no matter what method we use. However, for children who are still in adolescence, doing some strength training on a regular basis will achieve very good results. However, the strength training method must be chosen correctly and most suitable for children in order to achieve good results.