Basketball

[monkeyboy]

What is it about basketball that can make you taller?? Is it the jumping around or running around?
Couldn't you just jump on a trampoline and run on a treadmill? And would that work for getting taller?

[iMark]

May I ask?
Whut?

[hehe]

Nothing about basketball makes you taller. There's some truth to the fact that taller people are more likely to play basketball than the average person, since someone who's 7 feet tall is 2 feet closer to the basket than someone who's 5 feet tall.

No form of exercise will make you taller. A healthy diet with proper nourishment, such as enough calories, vitamins, and calcium, can promote fulfilling your height potential. No amount of jumping on the trampoline will change that. Height is based upon genetics and environmental factors, such as how well nourished you are.

[ElykElyk]

more or less its the actually excersize part of it, and how you are bulding muscle. Running, jumping shooting, of any kind will help strengthen your muscles, which in turn helps to slightly increase the testosterone levels in your body. This causes you to grow slightly i would presume. But any sport would do this, not just basketball. And trampolining may get you tired, but i hardly think it uses any muscles besides a small use of your legs. Running on a treadmill might help, but once again, its a combination of all of the excersizes that will promise the most results.

And seeing that you are 15, dont worry about growth, you could have up to 5-6 more years worth of growing to do.

[MeanMeanMachine]

As hehe stated there are no sports or exercise that can make you taller. They may make you stronger and healthier but it mostly comes down to genetics. If it were as easy as just playing basketball and exercise I sure wouldn't still be 5'6".

[$3@N :)]

Never heared of that to be honest! Tall people play BB. But never heared it makes u taller

[sillyoungalex92]

growing makes you taller. basketball is a sport.

[Tabula Rasa]

Nope. Basketball doesn't make you tall. It doesn't make you black either, regretabbly.

[iMark]

Nope. Basketball doesn't make you tall. It doesn't make you black either, regretabbly.

Sigged.
Lul.
Growing makes you taller.

[TimeThief]

Sorry, playing basketball doesn't make you taller. It's just coincidence that a lot of tall people do play basketball.

[Tabula Rasa]

Maybe not so much coincidence... it does provide a considerable advantage to be a bit taller.

[Flatulencia]

Ummm not sure how to tell you this.... Playing basketball doesn't make you taller.
It's all in your genes if it made you taller I would play all the time so I could get a few more inches but it wouldn't change a thing. People who play basketball just tend to be taller because taller people have a good advantage in the sport.

[seanbrooks23]

basketball doesnt make you taller. tall people just play basketball

[Marrk15]

LOl wait you think because basketball players are tall that they played basketball to get that way? lol uh no they picked the tallest people to play basketball.....

[Casey]

Goot got. There's a bunch of parrots in this thread.

*squawk*