its awsome to have a success story like pisces helping others out with his knowledge!

Does that formula apply for guys too? My dad is 5'6 and my mom 5'4. According to that formula I should be 5'5 but I ended up being 5'9.

"for males, if you have facial hair, an excess hair on your body, this means there is elevated levels of testosterone, which also closes growth plates in males."

Here's my growth summary:

13 years old: 4'10
14: 5'3 (Facial hair and chest hair come in)
15: 5'7
16: 5'8
17: 5'9

I'm 24 now and still 5'9. I still grew 6 inches after my chest and facial hair began to grow.

I believe the reason I even got to 5'9 was because on my mom's side I have an Uncle who is 6'5 and another 6'2. When I was looking through an old photo album I was very tall for my age group up until 3rd grade. I was towering over my friends who both ended up being 5'10. Then by the beginning of 7th grade I was one of the shorter guys around at 4'10. I should've ate my veggies.  

Here's the rundown

Maternal:

Grandfather: 5'11
Grandmother: 5'8
Uncle #1: 6'5
Aunt #1: 5'2
Mom: 5'4
Uncle #2: 6'2
Uncle #3: 5'8

Paternal:

Grandfather: 5'11
Grandmother: 5'2
Aunt #1: 5'2
Dad: 5'6
Aunt #2: 5'2
Uncle #2: 5'2

In other words we have some funky genetics in my family.

All of my male cousins on my mom's side are 6'0 (I think one of them is still growing).

My best friends, 4 of them are 6'2 and the other is 6'4. Pretty much everyone around me is tall. Is there any hope for me to grow anymore?

This post was last modified: 10-15-2006 06:14 AM by fivenine.

the formula for boys is +5 instead of -5

for boys the formula is:
(mom's height + dad's height - 5) divided by 2 = your likely height plus or minus 2-3 inches.

hey pisces25 i'm currently 18 and 2 months. i'm 5'4.5 and would give anything to achieve 5'8. my mom is 5'4 and dad is 5'7 so my potential height should be 5'8 in ur calculation above. i'm currently doing this:

1-30 min of jumroping everyday.
drinking 2-3 glases of milk everyday.

is this routine effective enough or do u have any better routine?

soyew
maybe you should add on pisces25's stretches
i have done them and they do not take very long.

thx ice. i will add pisces25's stretches. i've done em today and they're quiet easy and take about 5min i think.

maybe slightly less than 5 minutes

welcome to the forum soyew! btw are you the soyew from heightforum?