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Nerf Smurf
Mad Scientist
USA
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 Posted - Jan 19 2004 : 11:53:48 PM
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Im 8th grade and i have to take a really high jump to touch the top of a doorway. Everyone is about 1-2 feet taller then me. What can i do? I dont know my height!?
BTW, Im not a midget, Im thin.
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cirvin
Nobel Prize Winner
USA
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BEatonNo1
Nobel Prize Winner
USA
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Posted - Jan 20 2004 : 5:43:55 PM
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platform shoes are comming back into style
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Aaron Cake
Administrator
Canada
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Posted - Jan 21 2004 : 09:29:29 AM
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In other words, pretty much nothing. Your height is determined by your genes.
However, there have been reports of victums of torture (using the rack) gaining several inches. Might want to look into that. 
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cirvin
Nobel Prize Winner
USA
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Posted - Jan 21 2004 : 3:41:57 PM
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They have surgery for migets (or for you politcally correct pussies uhh I mean people, little people) that actually elongates their bones. But I doubt you will want to go to that extreme.
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BEatonNo1
Nobel Prize Winner
USA
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Posted - Jan 21 2004 : 6:41:50 PM
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yeah i saw that, they crack your bones and then use a frame to keep them a fraction of an inch apart while they heal....keep doing it over and over and you slowly at inches.
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YS
Nobel Prize Winner
USA
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Posted - Jan 22 2004 : 8:22:51 PM
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I've heard pullups help. I was told about a boy who grew up using lots of pullups so he could join airborn rangers.. He was killed in combat though..but that's another story.
Or, you can take completely different approach..One my friend, a martial artst, is a small-size man but nobody dares to make fun of him...
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BEatonNo1
Nobel Prize Winner
USA
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Posted - Jan 22 2004 : 10:30:57 PM
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you should see how close you live to one of the many houston area superfunds.....maybe the chemicals have stunted your growth
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Nerf Smurf
Mad Scientist
USA
390 Posts |
Posted - Jan 22 2004 : 11:46:42 PM
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I used to exercise and stuff, but when i first got my own computer (when i was 7) i started growing slow. I spend to much time on the computer.
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Aaron Cake
Administrator
Canada
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Posted - Jan 23 2004 : 09:16:56 AM
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Exercise is important...About 2 years ago, I realised how out of shape I was...Since I was no longer a "kid", I didn't have the benefit of their natural ability to keep fit (though some would argue, looking at todays youth, that this ability no longer exists). So I started working out...Nothing big. Just 20 minutes a day with weights, long bikerides, rollerblade, etc. HUGE different. While I will never be a "big" guy, the amount of muscle growth and "tone" has improved significantly...I see myself completely differently in the mirror now, and it really does change your outlook on life...
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cirvin
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BEatonNo1
Nobel Prize Winner
USA
1133 Posts |
Posted - Jan 23 2004 : 7:57:47 PM
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dont forget that guys grow over a longer period of time than girls do....there pretty much as tall as there going to get by 8th grade....
Im 18 and still notice that I am growing
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Posted - Jan 24 2004 : 2:03:13 PM
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If you are really desprite you could ask your doctor for growth hormone injections. You see, there's this gland in your head that controls this liquid that makes you grow taller, and the doctors would take that gland from people who are willing to donate it, usually tall people, and squeeze all the liquid out of it and inject it into you and you would grow a few inches or so in like a week. The downside is that the shots are sometimes $1,000-$5,000. So I would suggest just let time do it's wonders.
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Aaron Cake
Administrator
Canada
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Posted - Jan 24 2004 : 10:51:48 PM
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I probably sound like an infomercial because I'm excited. Seriously, life can change...
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Kale
Nobel Prize Winner
Canada
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Posted - Jan 25 2004 : 12:11:36 AM
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Males don't stop growing until they're 18, so you've probably got a while yet.
You might have a final 'growth spurt' later on and make up some of that missing height.
It happened that way to a friend of mine. He was pretty stumpy until after 14, now he's 6' 2"!
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Nerf Smurf
Mad Scientist
USA
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Posted - Jan 26 2004 : 11:56:53 PM
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Yea, i hear that groth spurt thing alot about me. Wonder how fast you shoot up when it happens?
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Growth, Body Height, I mean!
