Today's beauty standards and long-legged models flickering on the catwalk bring a lot of frustration to the average girls and women who are dissatisfied with neither their appearance nor proportions. They try at all costs to resemble the ready-made standards of beauty presented to them. To be perfect, go to any operations and risks. Today, many girls are concerned about the seemingly insoluble task of changing the natural length of the legs. I don’t feel like advising the poor things to go under the surgeon’s knife. Maybe this problem can be solved less bloody? How to lengthen legs without surgery, at home?

You can lengthen your legs not only with the help of surgery

In most cases, women's dreams of plastic surgery unreasonable: beauty is not standard rate, and we are beautiful precisely in our difference. And yet the beauty of the body is not the size of the waist or the length of the legs.

The beauty of the body - in the right proportions

This truth was known even to the ancient sculptors, who proved that even a small, plump woman can be no less beautiful than the long-legged huntress Diana. Therefore, before deciding to lengthen your legs, carefully look at yourself in the mirror: perhaps, despite your small stature, your legs are actually long (in accordance with your proportions)?

However, to the point. You still can’t convince a woman: if she decides to lengthen her legs, she will do it at any cost.

Lengthening the legs with exercise

Let's reassure fashionistas: it is really possible to “build up” a little leg at home. However, no " folk methods"in the form of herbs, rubbing, eating grated carrots, conspiracies will not work here.

The easiest way to lengthen your legs is to load yourself with daily physical activity. No, bodybuilding is definitely not suitable here. The task is solved much easier with the help of stretching exercises for the femoral and calf muscles.

Daily jogging is a great way to lengthen your legs.

Examples of simple exercises

• Jogging, only, of course, not in heels, and also not in slippers or flip flops:
  • Shoes should be ordinary sports shoes, without frills: you can use ordinary sneakers, but sneakers are more comfortable and useful for your feet.
• Walking on toes is quite simple, but effective exercise, in that case:
  • if you walk on your toes every day for at least 15-20 minutes;
  • the leg lift should be maximum, the toe itself should be extended, the back should be as straight as a string:
  • hands when walking are located on the side, shoulders are freely laid back.
• Raising on toes with lowering on the heels, performed 20 to 30 times several times a day, also helps to stretch the calf muscle and lengthen the leg.
• Front leg swings:
  • Stretch your arms in front of you parallel to the floor or a couple of centimeters higher.
  • Alternately try to get the opposite hand straightened, with the toe extended, with the foot.
• Rear swings:
  • Holding on to the back of a chair or the crossbar of a gymnastic ladder, slowly move the leg back and up as much as possible.
  • We fix this position for a few seconds and just as slowly lower the leg.
  • The longer the pose with the extended leg is maintained, the slower the exercise is performed, the better the effect.
• Side swings:
  • The starting position is the same as in the previous exercise.
  • We withdraw right leg to the right and up to the maximum possible height.
  • Having lowered it, we repeat the exercise with the other limb in the opposite direction.
• Max karateka:
  • Your task is to stretch your leg as high as possible with a sharp movement, while at the same time making a jerking movement, simulating a kick.
  • You can train on a hanging punching bag, kicking it, or hang a pillow or some other soft object from the top bar.

Exercises on the gymnastic wall

• Hanging on the crossbar:
  • Grasping the crossbar, hang on it. The legs are extended and should not touch the floor. We hang as much as our strength allows, every day slightly increasing the time of hanging.
• Leg hold bends:
  • We start left leg by the crossbar and, holding in this way, we lean towards the toe of the other leg, without bending it at the knee.
  • Exercise should begin with the lower crossbars, gradually moving to higher ones.

How to lengthen your legs with stretching (twine)

This is the most difficult exercise, crowning the entire complex of training for lengthening the legs.

In order to fully sit on the twine, you need long workouts.

Please read the warning before doing so:

• Do not try to do a full stretch immediately in the first session - it is traumatic!
• Twine is also not performed on cold muscles - start it after a preliminary warm-up warm-up.
• Exercise also cannot be done with serious orthopedic problems and injuries.

Stretching training technology - in the video below:

Video: Stretching at home

Special exercises for changing the length of the legs

Women often ask if hanging on the horizontal bar helps to lengthen the legs. Of particular difference between hanging on gymnastic stairs and there are no hangs performed on the horizontal bar.

Any hovering, with a load or not, lengthens not only the legs, but also the torso, and in general the proportions of the whole body do not change.

If a woman is determined to lengthen only the legs, leaving the length of the body the same, then it is better to replace hanging on the crossbar or horizontal bar with exercises on a chair with weights or an inversion table.

Chair exercises

For this exercise, a chair with a high seat is suitable, in which the legs will not touch the floor.

Attention: The use of weighting agents for rheumatoid arthritis or deforming arthrosis knee joint can be dangerous. Be sure to consult your doctor if you have these diseases.

Inversion table exercises

These are also hoverings, but upside down while holding with the legs - in this position, the stretching of the bones and joints of the legs occurs due to the force of gravity.

On the inversion table, leg exercises are performed upside down.

• In the absence of an inversion table, you can use either a horizontal bar or Evminov's dispensary.
• All exercises upside down on the horizontal bar must be performed in inversion boots.

Contraindications for special exercises

On these simulators, you can not exercise upside down if you have:

• glaucoma,
• second stage hypertension
• ventral hernias,
• cardiac arrhythmias,
• coronary heart disease,
• prosthetic joints,
• cerebral aneurysms,
• cerebral and mental disorders,
• pregnancy.

About the results of leg lengthening at home

Many women do not have enough patience in their studies and very often they exclaim:

- My God! I’m already suffering so much, but I haven’t grown a centimeter and nothing has lengthened!

But when a girl is asked how much is “so much”, it turns out that she has been exercising, oh horror, for two whole weeks.

Daily leg measurements are a waste of time

So, beauties, the first result after daily training will appear after two or three months, and more tangible - in six months. And then measuring your feet every day with a centimeter is an empty business. The best analyzer is a mirror. Rate yourself:

If you yourself have become slimmer and fit, then your legs visually look longer.

Some make a different kind of mistake:

Exercise with weighting loads is advised to perform 10-15 minutes a day, and they are zealous for half an hour, hoping that the higher the load, the sooner and more they will be able to lengthen the legs. And the result is bursting blood vessels in the legs, pain in the bones and muscles, general fatigue, which kills the further desire to practice.

It is impossible to storm and rush here in any way.

Secrets of visual lengthening of the legs

Quite lazy, you can tell the secrets of choosing toilet items and clothes that allow you to visually lengthen your legs:

You can lengthen your legs with the help of a careful selection of items in your wardrobe.

• Watch your posture and gait:
  • Even naturally long legs lose a few centimeters when walking half-bent.
  • You need to go with your shoulder blades and shoulders back, straightening up, proudly raising your head.
  • The foot should spring during the step, and the leg should straighten at the knee.
• Shoes on high heels makes the leg slimmer and longer:
  • However, for orthopedic reasons, the height of the heel should not be too high, so as not to provoke arthrosis of the foot or cause varicose veins. Optimal Height- 7 cm.
• If you are short, do not wear over the knee boots, but rather prefer medium-length boots.
• The length of the skirts is medium or short. Maxi skirts with small stature do not look very nice.
• At short legs never wear dresses with a low waistline, skirts and trousers on the hips.
• Prefer trousers with a belt at the waist of different styles, except for breeches:
  • straight classic with a black “arrow”;
  • flared slightly from the knee;
  • tight-fitting;
  • with stripes or thin vertical stripes.
• Wear dresses without square cutouts, tight-fitting silhouette (if the figure allows), and only with high-heeled shoes.
• Eliminate wide belts from your wardrobe.
• Color preferences:
  • Avoid contrasting colors in clothes, large gaudy drawings, rhinestones and all sorts of glitters.
  • A horizontal strip, a large cell should also be excluded.
  • Clothing and tops and bottoms should be matched to match.
  • Choose tights and socks to match your shoes.
• Prefer light colors for summer shoes, open type, without any straps and ankle ties.

You see - with the help of very simple tricks, you can visually lengthen your legs without any operation.

Video: Lengthening the legs with exercises (part 1):

Video: Lengthening the legs with exercises (part 2):

High chairs are diverse, produced in a wide range of styles, materials and additional features. Some of them have interesting “bells and whistles”: rocking chairs, inflatable seats, etc. Therefore, before you make the chairs higher, you should familiarize yourself with all the models that are popular.

A high chair is placed in the pool, billiard rooms, living rooms and dining rooms. A wide range of fabrics and finishes, as well as other options such as height and custom footrests, make it the piece of furniture that requires individual approach, in most cases, the models are made by hand.

Children's models

Standard

This is a highchair with an everyday tray that can be used as soon as the child has learned to sit (at the age of about six months) or even earlier if the model reclines. A special tray serves as a table for the child.

European Style

It's a high chair that pulls right up to dining table so that the child can eat with the rest of the family. As a rule, it is suitable for a one-year-old baby and a child over a year old, such designs are best done with an adjustable seat.

hook chair

This model, which can hardly be called a chair, is great for travel and for families with limited living space living in a small area. This type of compact clip-on seat is mounted on a table or regular dining chair. When making a similar model, you need to make sure in advance that the furniture on which it will be attached is strong enough.

Bar models

Many of us associate bar stools only with public places, but why not create an immediate and relaxing atmosphere right at home? The proportions of bar stools make them suitable for more than just pub use.

A type of high stool, often with an additional leg support post, allows you to sit higher while eating, drinking, or socializing. In the 2000s, it became popular in apartments, models are placed on kitchen island and form them home bar. And if you're into partying, spending long evenings with friends, or just looking for interesting idea spice up the space, then a bar at home is an idea for you.

The solution was invented for those who like to have a snack on the run, who prefer to communicate in a relaxed atmosphere. When creating models, we use interesting approaches, the space acquires a completely new atmosphere.

• The bar counter quickly becomes the familiar heart of the apartment, over time it will be difficult to convince guests to take their seats at the table. The kitchen is made open. This layout will provide flowing space, the ability to move around the dining island.
• Even in small kitchen one-room apartment you can allocate space for a bar counter, at which two people sit comfortably, this is a smart way to use a small area.
• They are planning a bar in the basement of a private house. Here it is easier to maintain the required temperature for exceptional wines.

What are the designs

Thinking about how to make a bar stool, they take into account that models are made with and without armrests, with or without a backrest, with upholstery on the seat surface and with solid seats. Stools save space. Furniture ranges from basic wooden structures to more complex adjustable height.

rotary and floor models can be moved, but they are unstable. Mounting to the floor makes the furniture immovable. Such floor version, as a rule, is mounted on a column, and if the chair has legs, then it is attached to the floor with metal brackets.

Bar stools are manufactured in various styles. Remember! You and only you limit the imagination.

About materials

• Most often, wood is used for making with their own hands.
• In some bar models, polyurethane foam is used as a comfortable upholstery.
• Wooden and metal high models (including of stainless steel), height-adjustable, are particularly popular.
• The furniture is made from rattan or bamboo, using it to create the effects of the popular retro style of the 1950s and 1960s.
• Some craftsmen use chrome, in combination with matching seats.

How to increase the height of an existing model

Depending on the design of the existing chair, you can significantly increase its height. In one case, this will help the combination with other furniture. In another, a taller chair will make life easier for the elderly and those with physical disabilities who find it difficult to sit and rise.

Attention! For some types of chairs, neither method is suitable and neither is safe.

"New Legs"

Soft, lightweight chairs and stools often have legs that are screwed on. You can make or even buy replacement legs in a variety of styles and lengths to increase the height of your chair. The main thing is that the thickness of the new element should be similar to the original. Replacing a wide support with a narrower one leads to instability and will make the furniture unsafe.

wheels

Adding wheels or replacing existing wheels with larger ones will increase the height of certain dinettes, office chairs or chairs.

• Castors equipped with brakes increase the stability of the high chair.
• It is worth choosing heavy-duty wheels, for example, ball-type.

If the legs of the existing chair on which the wheels are to be placed are made of wood or rattan, a hole is drilled in the center of the bottom of each leg. Sometimes it is necessary to use wood glue to ensure solidity.

Attention! Adding wheels to a chair is not recommended if the person who uses the furniture has any type of musculoskeletal disability.

Pillows

Replacing or adding a seat cushion is the easiest and most safe way increase chair height. Pillowcase, cover or fabric cover will help not only to change the design, but also take care of soft part furniture more simple. Non-slip backing will help prevent slipping.

• Pillows with high density, wrapped in batting, perfectly increase the degree of comfort, at the same time “pulling up” the seat height to right size.
• existing model with a removable pillow, it is easy to arrange with a harder pillow, which in some cases is attached, while in others it is simply placed on a chair or stool.

Attention! If the armrests of the chair are low, the increased seat height can make the furniture too uncomfortable.

Pillow Making Workshop

Pillows, soft, large, small, colorful, plain... They can change any interior and give it character, and at the same time they are practical and comfortable.

You will need:

• the cloth,
• thread,
• scissors,
• needles,
• sewing machine,
• filling (silicone).

Two 50 x 50 cm squares and four 52 cm x 10 cm strips (1 cm for seams) are cut from the selected fabric. The parts are sewn together, leaving a 10 cm hole. If you want the edges of the pillow to be more visible, the seams are made at a large distance from the edge.

Initially, after filling with silicone, the pillow will not be too beautiful, so it makes sense to give it the shape of a saddle. It is enough in several places with a large needle to pull the opposite sides of the product to each other.

These cushions, available in different sizes (according to the size of the chair), are ideal for playing right on the floor.

What do you need to know?

• Seat height 61cm, compared to normal dining chair, 46 cm high, is perceived differently.
• The normal seat size is 66-76 cm.
• The taller (91 cm) stool is increasingly being used in modern styles with high bar tables to create an unusual visual effect in interiors.

Before you increase the height of the chair or start making it, calculate how much space the furniture will take in the room. Defined with style. What is most aesthetically pleasing for a particular interior, what will match the decor of the house? Consider stability: the wider the base of the high chair, the greater its stability. Furniture must withstand any antics such as shaking or rocking, in some cases it must be screwed to the floor. Access and security is a top priority.

• The ability to adjust the height will help increase the range of its usefulness.
• Decide if the chair should fold down.
• Are wheels needed? If so, make sure the wheels will lock.

Next, they estimate how easy it is to wipe the base material (usually wood), not forgetting to clean the recesses and crevices. If seat cushions are sewn, they think over care in advance. Do they wipe down with a sponge or do they need to be machine washed?

Attention! The use of risers, blocks that are placed under the legs of furniture is unsafe. This kind of support is quite stable under a sofa or bed, but a chair on risers can topple or fall, and a fall can cause serious injury.

A computer desk is one of the main things to ensure convenient and comfortable work at a computer. For some, it can be bought in a store, and for someone it can be homemade. Today we will talk about those computer tables at which people work while standing.

Why?

Because it will be healthier. Many may not agree with this, but I think everyone can try.

Changing the computer table is possible in two ways

1. Raise only the keyboard, mouse and monitor to the desired level.
2. Raise the height of the table top.

1. Raise the countertop

Creative ways - a lot

Composite worktop with built-in trash drawers.

Here, under the table top, there is a box of trash and a small library.

Quite a working option, you can work below for a laptop at the top for its continuation.

Brutal climb option

Coca-Cola in the office)

And again, a two-component composition.

Minimalism in the spirit of Apple)

Some photos may make you laugh, but this is one of the easiest solutions.
Use everything that is at hand and do not look for another. As for temporary use, it will do just fine.

I want to list the list of items that were used for these computer tables:

• Books
• Chairs
• stools
• boxes
• Shelves
• And even cans of chips!

Disadvantages of this method

• instability
• Insufficient work surface

Benefits of this method

2. Raise the whole table

The Internet also has a lot to offer, here are some of them

It looks like the desktop of an NKVD officer.

This is apparently from the same building as the brutal version above, apparently they are slowly pulling it apart brick by brick. Judging by the fact that the guys in shorts are warm and they don’t really need walls)

Conceptually. Desk office of Bazar Mac edition.

A table with a computer rise, because it stands on nothing else like on old computers.

Very stylish leg extensions.

The imagination of people is boundless, under these tables in the photographs the following items were found:

• cinder blocks
• Reams of paper
• Chairs
• Bedside tables
• Wooden countertops or something like this

Disadvantages of this method

• Difficult transition from standing to sitting
• Need strong material, moreover, such that it can withstand the weight of the table with the monitor and other things

Benefits of this method

• No loss working surface
• The table will be as strong as if you put it on the floor
• It is more customary to work at such a table simple methods you can upgrade your computer desk and turn it into a standing desk.

Try, experiment and know that everything depends on your desire and imagination.

Well, what if the search is not trivial and not in everything convenient solutions not for you, you can

If a chair or table is too low for you, you can raise it by extending the legs with wooden planks fastened with screws. The chair and table are completely stable. The figure shows two ways: one for both wood and metal furniture, the other for wood only. Metal legs of chairs can be extended by buying metal tubes and inserting them into the legs (or putting them on).
The length of the tube is measured, the tube is cut, put on the leg and fixed with screws. The exact dimensions are not given here, they depend on the type of furniture, the diameter of the legs, etc. It is not recommended to lengthen the legs much, otherwise the furniture will become less stable.

Material

A. Case - plywood 9 mm.
C. Planks - solid wood, the size of the planks corresponds to the dimensions of the body, 4 pcs.

Operating procedure

1. Measure the legs.
2. Cut the plywood as shown.
3. Make a leg extension.
4. Cut planks B to fit the extension.
5. Process sandpaper and paint.

→ Grow a leg

To build up the legs of a chair is not like that simple task as it might seem at first glance. The leg of the chair is a complex detail. Various styles of furniture correspond to various forms of legs. In the Baroque style - twisted columns or volutes, Rococo offers legs in the form of whimsically curved cabriols, and in classicism, strict straight legs are rectangular or round in section of the column. When making a chair or armchair, it is important to cut the legs correctly. Wood is not a homogeneous material and it is necessary to cut the stem in such a way that the annual layers pass strictly vertically, otherwise a “slant” marriage will form and the stem will definitely break in this place. It is useless to repair such a chair leg, it will break again and again. Such a part can only be replaced with a new, correctly made one.

Antique chairs, like any other wooden furniture, are subject to deformation. As a result of natural warping, the geometry of the object changes. The legs change shape, one of them bends, becomes shorter. The chair begins to stagger and, eliminating this defect, one of the legs is filed to the unfortunate chair. It is rare for a non-specialist to do exactly the first time. The second and all subsequent attempts to level the chair by filing the legs lead to a decrease in the overall height of the chair.

The next reason for reducing the height of the legs of chairs is the breakdown of the wheels. The seating furniture of the period of the first and second Rococo was made using bronze cups. The glass was put on a leg along with a bronze, ebonite or wooden wheel attached to it. It was considered special chic move furniture on the front legs with wheels, lifting it by the back. Sometimes, on a chair or armchair, wheels were made only on the front legs. So cushioned furniture was more stable. The wheels broke, they were removed, and for alignment, the legs of the chair were driven along the mark under the front legs without wheels. The chair or armchair became low.

In order to build up the leg of a chair, you need: a block of wood of the right size for the type of wood from which the chair itself is made, glue, preferably carpentry, a set of tools for woodcarving, a drill with a drill for wood, dowels from hard rock wood, clamps, stain and varnish.

wood block suitable form glued to the stackable leg. Wood fibers must go strictly vertically relative to the floor. The joint is reinforced with dowel solid wood. Usually beech. After the glue has dried with the help of hand cutters, the tree is given the necessary shape. The adhesive connection must be strengthened, that is, to make it more durable.