When most of us think of exercise, we think of strength training, or heart pumping cardiovascular workouts, and often use stretching techniques simply as a way of warming up for those other exercises. When it comes to naturally gaining height though, those stretching exercises will show their true value and importance, not just by increasing height, but by improving flexibility as well.

There are plenty of different exercises, of varying effectiveness and difficulty, that can be used to target these key areas, and we’ll examine three of them below.

Trunk Twist – This exercise can be fun to perform, and gives your spine a great workout, putting it through a full range of motion, horizontally and vertically. It also targets the abs in one fell swoop as well, so you can kill two ailing birds with one stone.

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