Kicking as a form of exercise is probably a foreign concept to many. Unless you’re a kickboxer or the like, practicing kicking would not seem to have any tremendous benefits, other than increasing your leg strength and flexibility a bit. Of course, we know that repeated exercise on certain areas of the body can lead to those areas stretching and becoming longer, which in the case of legs would naturally lead to height gain. So can you increase your height through kicking?
The short answer is yes, kicking motions over a long period of time could almost certainly have the benefit of stretching out your leg muscles, increasing height. The long answer though is that it’s probably not the most savvy way of growing taller.
To the issue of whether this does indeed work though, and we know it does through studying people who routinely use kicking training as part of their daily schedule, most notably kickboxers, who have been shown to have legs at least two inches longer than they otherwise would.
The trouble is that these results were gained after years and years of training, and it’s impossible to determine how much repeated effort it would actually take to see these results. I’m not sure anyone has a desire to kick box for two years nonstop, simply to gain one inch of height.
Kickboxers routinely train as many as 1000+ kicks per leg each day, which is probably a goal unattainable by most people as well, unless you’re already in great physical shape, and have the necessary amount of time on your hands.
If you are interested in taking up kicking for growing tall, or as a combination of full on exercise with the added benefit of height gain down the line, you should purchase a good kick boxing style bag.
Your training should consist of 20 kicks per leg, then switching to the other leg and doing 20 kicks with that leg. After you’ve done 100 with each leg, you can take a short break and either resume a little later, or call it a day. This will be great exercise for your legs and even your abs and lower back to some degree, no question.
If you use some form of kicking training already, there’s nothing wrong with continuing to do so, and if you wish to take it up, then all the power to you. But kicking for growing taller is probably not the best way to try adding on a couple inches. There are many simpler and less exhaustive exercises that can be used to achieve the same goal.
