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50% Facts with Silent Mike & Jim McD

When should kids start strength training? | One Good Question

50% Facts with Silent Mike & Jim McD

Jim McDonald

Fitness, Entrepreneurship, Tv & Film, Business, Health & Fitness, Film Reviews

4.92.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

This week’s question is more of a parenting question than a physiology question. When should parents introduce strength training? The answer is simpler than you’d think.

Sebastian Brambila (@sebastian_brambila) ran the board and chimed in on this one.

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0:00.0

Ladies and gentlemen welcome to one good question our Friday episode of 50% facts where we take questions from y'all

0:15.8

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0:20.3

Join the discord like-minded community you get early access to all our clothing jobs but also you can ask us a question

0:26.6

And today's question is and I think we've covered this generally but I don't know right on the head specifically

0:32.8

When and how should parents introduce their kids

0:35.8

to strength training?

0:38.8

That's a good question.

0:40.7

Yeah, I mean in Eastern Block Europe, it's very common to do it early.

0:46.7

You know, they're doing body weight stuff, gymnastics and some type of weightlifting

0:49.4

or at least the movements themselves.

0:52.3

Most research shows that, you know, with any basic proper program,

0:58.0

lifting weights is not going to hurt by any means, you know, the whole stunt your

1:02.0

growth thing, etc, etc etc the only way that happens is an impact

1:05.9

injury around a growth plate which means you know someone gets crushed by a squat and

1:12.2

snaps their leg.

1:14.0

But that's obviously much less likely than even a kid snapping their leg

1:20.0

playing in a tree or playing soccer. It can happen. Yeah, it can happen anywhere, but it's in a

1:26.4

controlled environment. It's much less likely and lifting weights is the most controlled

1:31.5

movement possible.

1:33.0

Soccer, it doesn't really matter.

1:35.0

Any team sport, even track and field,

1:37.0

obviously much more dynamic and much more likely for bad things to go wrong

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