The last doctor told me that using ankle weights doesn't do anything. It will put stress on your bones and make your legs stronger, but it can't enlarger or lengthen the bone.
Since when do people ask doctors for advice to grow taller? They don't accept the fact that people can get taller by doing certain routines, and thats because its not in their goddamn doctor book facts.
james (no login) 71.106.7.25
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April 24 2005, 5:34 PM
Hah... Okay. Denial.
Scientifically, how would ankle weights elongate the tibias? Bones are not malleable; that's why they break.
As with hanging or other routines for the spine, one can straighten the discs of cartilage, and form better posture and even extra height.
I just don't understand why some people think that by applying weight to a bone would lengthen it -- where is there any proof or reasoning of such a thing?
"I just don't understand why some people think that by applying weight to a bone would lengthen it -- where is there any proof or reasoning of such a thing?"
It's not weight, it's the amount of stress the bone endures. My left arm is 2 inches longer then my right arm since I pitched with that arm for 5 years.