Caution: Consult your doctor before performing any of the exercises described below.

1) Between the walls affix and iron rod or a sturdy beam across door and the height vertically should be, at least, so high as to facilitate hanging from it. Raise your feet or use a stool to grasp the rod with both your hands. Now swing keeping your legs straight. While swinging slightly fold your legs, if convenient. You may perform this exercise 8-10 times, giving some gap in between each exercise. This exercise will not only add to height but may also correct hunch-back, stiffness in joints, correct wrong posture and strengthen shoulders.
Modification: After firmly grasping the rod, try to raise your body to the extent possible, by raising level of your shoulders to such an extent that your mouth/chin touches the rod. This is a bit difficult deviation, as weight of whole body will fall on hands, elbows and shoulders. You have to exert utmost patience and caution.

2) Stand erect, keeping a gap of 300 cms or more in between both feet. Now bring your both hands behind your neck and tilt your head first to the left side and then to the right side. While doing so, do not bend your knees, only your waist will bend to one side. Stay in the same (bent) position for a few seconds and repeat this 8-10 times on either side. There should be no cracking or cricking sound nor should your back start to pain or experience any jerk. Each repetition ought to be smooth and rhythmic.3) First stand erect, keeping reasonable and comfortable gap between both the feet. Now stretch your hands fully and try to bend down your trunk from the waist, keeping your feet firmly glued to the ground. When you bend forward, your weight will fall on the toes of both feet but this is position when proper balance ought to be maintained, otherwise you may fall. When toes keep touching the ground, heels will get raised from the ground. Now touch the ground with your hands, your head and hands should pass through within your spread out legs. Repeat the process 8-10 times. This exercise helps in elongation of the spine and also impart it flexibility. It also strengthens legs.

Whichever exercise you choose, you should perform the same with utmost regularity and punctuality but never exceed your capacity. First try your hand at those exercises which, you feel, are easy and comfortable to perform. Do not perform any exercise immediately after meals, when you are dead tired, exhausted, bathed in perspiration, suffer from fever, high blood pressure, any respiratory disorder, swelling in any part of body. Your diet must commensurate with Calories burnt during the course of doing exercise. If proper balance is not maintained between energy generated and expended, full benefits cannot be had from exercise.