GUYS

• crossover

  5 Feb 06, 21:47

  hey does doing push-ups restrain one from growing taller? cuz i'm 17 this yr and i have heard that gym work will deter the puberty height growth tt's why i don't dare to work out now. any gym experts here?
• Linkage

  5 Feb 06, 21:50

  push up = gym? o.O
• borntolive

  5 Feb 06, 21:53

  Originally posted by crossover:

  hey does doing push-ups restrain one from growing taller? cuz i'm 17 this yr and i have heard that gym work will deter the puberty height growth tt's why i don't dare to work out now. any gym experts here?

  -_-"" which idiot told u that..gym doesnt affect height...push ups work yr arms n especially yr chest...
  
  btw push up isnt gym work...if push up is gym work then i guess everyone will have fantastic body liao...
  
  but sad to say most gymates i seen n me r relativey short ..maybe because we do gym to get fantastic bodies to cover our height..
• technoboy

  5 Feb 06, 21:54

  I don't believe in it, and started going to the gym when I was in sec 2. But I stopped growing since sec 1 and I'm 1.7m tall.
• vIn.Warrior

  5 Feb 06, 21:55

  Originally posted by crossover:

  hey does doing push-ups restrain one from growing taller? cuz i'm 17 this yr and i have heard that gym work will deter the puberty height growth tt's why i don't dare to work out now. any gym experts here?

  don't know if it's really true tt pple who frequent in gyms will tend to have their height affected; but from observation, extremely muscular hunks are always very shorty.
  if you're afraid, do some skipping on a regular basis. It helps.
• crossover

  5 Feb 06, 22:05

  i wasn't trying to say that push-up is gym work. i'm just curious to know if it affects height growth cuz i'm kinda short now and those people in my school gym very short lor. tt's why i don't dare to work out though given my body size, i can buff up a little more. hence i thought of doing push-ups instead of gym work-out.
• alkaiden

  6 Feb 06, 00:56

  dont have to worry man, gym wont affect ur height de...its scientifically proven. infact it can boost ur growth. Unless, in the extreme case where u lift damn heavy and injure ur growth platlate or somethin like that then can stunt ur growth
  
  so i say, dun worry lift hard and practise ur form...
• sinicker

  6 Feb 06, 01:01

  my bro's height decreased by 3cm leh.
  den he stopped doing the... how to describe ah... 'lift weights frm shoulder and extend arm to the air'.
• alfagal

  6 Feb 06, 01:01

  prob its optical illusion lar..
  
  when u look bigger, u look shorter...some of my guyfriends say so too..
  
  not true tat u will b shorter lar..tis will only happen when u are older...much older..when ur cushion between each bone starts to decrease in volume..then u will shrink in height..
• thinkdifferent

  6 Feb 06, 01:03

  Push ups won't affect your height. But a hard gym work can do it. When the body still grows, this is possible thanks to the clefts which are on each end of the bones. The bones get longer this way. When the body stops to grows, these clefts "close" themselves. When lifting heavy weights, the weight can press on these clefts and close them and the bones can't grow. Thus affecting the height.
  
  Guys who still grow should only lift weights and work with weights which are not more then the growing bones can bear.
• crossover

  6 Feb 06, 06:00

  thanks a lot for the guidance guys