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Teen Bodybuilding
How Young Can You Train?
By Pete Sisco
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| We get a lot of enquiries regarding young people training with weights. Parents ask whether it is harmful or beneficial to be training with weights when their kids are teenagers.
First, my disclaimer. I'm not an MD and I don't dispense medical advice. What I can tell you is that the American Academy of Pediatrics does recommend strength training for preadolescents and adolescents. Also, the American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine says:
"In addition to enhancing motor skills and sports performance, regular participation in a youth resistance training program has the potential to positively influence several measurable indices of health. It helps strengthen bone, facilitate weight control, enhance psychosocial well-being, and improve one's cardiovascular risk profile. Furthermore, a stronger musculoskeletal system will enable boys and girls to perform life's daily activities with more energy and vigor and may increase a young athlete's resistance to sports-related injuries."
Strength training for youth had a shadow cast over it by claims it could possibly cause stunted growth in children. But various studies have failed to find the proverbial 'smoking gun'. Where is the kid with 6 foot tall brothers who is 4' 10" only because he lifted weights when he was 12? Apparently he does not exist despite the fact that millions of junior high school kids lift weights. More on this subject is available from the National Strength and Conditioning Association.
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- 51.3% increase static strength
- 27.6% increase in one-rep max in full range of motion! (without doing full range lifts for 10 weeks!)
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- 34.3% increase in ten-rep max in full range of motion! (see above)
- gained 9.0 pounds of new muscle (one subject gained 29 pounds of muscle!)
- gained 1/2 inch on each biceps, 1.1 inches on chest, and 1.2 inches on shoulders
- lost 4.9 pounds of fat & lost 0.4 inches on waist
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For my part, I have always enjoyed the fact that there is no "opposing view" on the subject of adult exercise. There is no party that says, "Avoid exercise because it's really bad for your health." Nobody. It is a rare case of 100% medical agreement that exercise in general and strength training in particular is beneficial in many very important ways. Is the same true for preadolescents and adolescents? Most agree it is.
And here's my way of looking at it. Even in the highly unlikely event of a tradeoff in terms of slight reduction of adult height, compare that to avoiding the rampant increase in diabetes, hypertension and depression in young people today, not to mention the value of acquiring the exercise habit early in life.
To me, it's no contest! And this is not idle talk on my part. I have 6 kids and all of them have worked out using SCT and developed above average strength. My daughter could leg press 1,100 pounds when she was 15. Obviously, my sons can do even more...and all but the 13-year-old are already over 6 feet tall.
Introduce your kids to strength training. You'll be doing them a lifetime of good service.
Train with your brain,
Pete Sisco
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