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[6feet2isTooShort]

I read somewhere of guys (20+ age) successfully gaining some height via cycling for 20 miles a day with a raised seat (so the leg hardly touches the pedals). Could this be used to increase leg length somehow over long periods of time?

[Valiant]

I read somewhere of guys (20+ age) successfully gaining some height via cycling for 20 miles a day with a raised seat (so the leg hardly touches the pedals). Could this be used to increase leg length somehow over long periods of time?

I don't see how this is possible. Once the growth plates in your legs fuse, growth ceases. Cycling won't overcome this. His increase in height could be attributed to the fact that he was still naturally growing at 20+.

Besides surgical LL, the only other realistic methods of marginally increasing height are improving posture and spinal alignment via specific stretches and exercises and glucosamine supplementation.

[Knik]

Again one time : sport don’t make people taller. Even at a young age. Of course there is a lot of advantage to practice sport but not this one
Sleep well (8 a night) eat well and avoid stress. This is the most important
Another myth is that going to sleep before midnight make you grow taller, another bull

[6feet2isTooShort]

Again one time : sport don’t make people taller. Even at a young age. Of course there is a lot of advantage to practice sport but not this one
Sleep well (8 a night) eat well and avoid stress. This is the most important
Another myth is that going to sleep before midnight make you grow taller, another bull

How are you so sure about this? Have you tried to say it won't work? Constantly making legs stretch every day as they try to reach foot of pedals.

[Valiant]

How are you so sure about this? Have you tried to say it won't work? Constantly making legs stretch every day as they try to reach foot of pedals.

Bones don't stretch though.

[6feet2isTooShort]

But intense trauma causes micro-tears.

Bones remodel over period of time. They are subject to external forces. That is why people who get paralysed at side of their faces get the bones changing over years and have one of their face sides drooping down. If "bones would not change" then they would have the same skulls as they had before paralysis or at least scans (xrays) would show that bone on both sides of face is equal.

[Johnson1111]

Just get LL, get to 6'5" and reach your dream to see that it's all in your imagination.

[lucindaris]

@feet2istooshort You need to get atleast 2 m to be average in the highest peaks of Dinaric Alps even with with 195 u feel like manlet here

[6feet2isTooShort]

Just get LL, get to 6'5" and reach your dream to see that it's all in your imagination.

People over 6 feet shouldn't "just get LL" since it will have dramatic sides and complications and can fk up your proportions badly.

But getting 1  or 1.5 inches from various other activities would be really beneficial.