kids fitness
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can kids go to the gym |
A question I've been getting a lot should teens be weightlifting I get this question from both the teenagers and their parents as well is it safe as a dangerous should they stay out of the gym until they're older and they're more grown and developed is it going to stub their growth don't worry about any of that don't worry about you not getting taller because you're training at 16 years old what is most important is focusing on your health preventing injury
weight training has a ton of benefits it can even help prevent childhood obesity which seems to be a huge problem here in America mainly because of how lazy society is due to the technological advances all these kids with iPads and iPhones and Xboxes and ps3's women tend o wheeze and all that and ever even trying to market video games to people to help them lose weight
what the hell is this world coming to you have to go like this and swing a Wii mote around to lose a couple of pounds go outside go in the street right over there play some basketball baseball football with your friends Society is lazy anyway throw that aside should they be lifting weights at a young age simple answer yes I believe they should be but but safety should be the first thing they should be aware that they're not going to go into the gym and squat and bench press 400 pounds
it's not going to happen they need to learn to control their ego especially at a young age I know elite power lifters and bodybuilders who to this day are still learning how to improve their squat bench-press deadlift and these people have won multiple titles trophies Awards all of that but it's a learning process every single day month after month year after year you will continue to tweak things to learn
how to do them so at a younger age you're still in your growth and development process so you don't have the hormones to build crazy amounts of muscles so there's no point in even trying what you should be doing is building the foundation and the support system to help support you when you get older when you have the ability to put on some good size when your testosterone levels are higher.
so if you're 13 or 14 years old before you even think about going to the gym what you should be doing taking advantage of all the resources out there just google search them how to bench-press how to deadlift how to squat elite FTS as a whole YouTube series on it mark Rapp ATO's starting strength program this isn't especially at this young age it's not about how many reps and sets you should do how many times a week you should be working out it's about learning the proper movement patterns the foundational exercises and how to execute them which even means without weight at all so you should be able to do a push up correctly and understand how to do a push up you should be able to do a bodyweight squat with no weight on your back and learn on high supposed to sit back with your chest up learn the movement pattern
before you go ahead and step into the gym and add weight so you can prevent the risk of getting injured falling under the weight getting hurt and not being able to train as you get older so that's really it as a young adult as a teenager sure it's fine to lift weights but remember you should be lifting and I recommend this I never really tell people to lift light but you should be in the higher rep range anywhere from eight to even as high as twenty to get the motor and gram down your brain has to understand what's happening and it takes thousands and thousands of reps to properly learn how to execute a movement
I know people my age I'm 25 I see in the gym they've been there for two three years and still don't know how to properly do a bicep curl probably because they were never taught how to do it that's not to say you can't get big doing shitty workouts or not understanding the movement but at a younger age if you want to prevent injury learn how to do everything properly before adding weight to the bar.
Those 12 and older can build slowly to heavier weights as long as they are able to complete, with ease, 2 to 3 sets of exercises that include 8 to 10 repetitions during workouts of 20 to 30 minutes
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