Did I stunt my growth?

[Anonymous]

so I've been doing gymnastics and cheerleading since the end of 5th grade and heard that gymnastics can stunt your growth. also I've been doing weighted squats like 30 pounds which i know isn't much but my legs are alll muscle. i heard that squats and gymnastics can stunt your growth and i was wondering if thats what happend to me? im the shortest one in my family. 5'3 when my mom is 5'8 my sister is 5'7 my dad is 6' and my brother is like 6'2, and my girl cousin on my moms side whos the same age as me is like 5'8 and she does track. i only know one person in my whole family who is short. she is 4'11 and one of my dads many sisters. but i know when she was younger she did gymnastics too and she is short so yeah. and her daughter whos my age is short and she does gymnastics but that could very well be because her mom is short. also i dont eat healthy either really. and when i stopped gymnastics for a few months i grew an inch and 2 inches in 8th grade and that was after having my period for a year. but then i started doing squats like every day and i haven't grew since. i mean im ok with my height but i would rather grow to my full potential lol. so what do u think did i?

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i ment to say ***2 inches haha

[madhatters4]

you can stunt your growth throw excessive exercise at a young age. my wife wonders the same thing. most in her family are over 5'5 and she is 5'1. But it's hard to say for sure. you can't just look at your family and say well they are this and I am this so this must be...

you can go to a doctor and check on your growth plates but in reality it probably is just best to accept your height. there's nothing wrong with being shorter

[aficionado]

No, not at all. You can never 'stunt' your growth, or even make yourself taller for that matter. A person's height is hardcoded in his/her genes, and nothing can change that. Sometimes... just sometimes... certain kinds of activities may change your height by an inch, but that is highly unlikely and is not even confirmed.

[Nobodycares]

Being short is fine. Plenty of guys will want to date you, espeically if you remain in that amount of shape. :o

[Nobodycares]

Men are usually taller than women in terms of genetics (at least among ethnics that are generally taller, there tends to be more of a height gap between genders, with the occassional very tall woman, I think).

5'8'' and 5'3'' aren't much of a difference to me (I'm 6 feet tall, so they're both short to me). You probably inherited shortness from an ancestral gene farther back.