Why Your Kid Should Be Lifting Weights

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Mark Rippetoe

Training, Fitness & Nutrition, Barbell, Health, Fitness, Strength

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🗓️ 18 April 2017

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Mark Rippetoe reads his article on weight training for kids. The text of the article can be found here: http://startingstrength.com/article/why-your-kids-should-be-lifting-weights --------------------------- Watch Podcast on YouTube: https://youtu.be/kgRKG971YGM WEBSITE: http://startingstrength.com FORUM: http://startingstrength.com/resources/forum/ STORE: http://aasgaardco.com Subscribe on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=AasgaardCo Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SS_strength Like on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Starting-Strength-The-Aasgaard-Company/142424022490628 -----------------------------

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0:00.0	Why Your Kids Should Be Lifting Wights.
0:02.0	The media has been interested in strength training recently.
0:06.0	Occasionally they do this, although they don't actually know that's what they're interested in.
0:12.0	For example, a study published in the British Medical Journal Open,
0:17.0	and the URL of that is available on our website,
0:21.6	morphed into this headline from Reuters.
0:26.6	Screen time linked to weaker bones in teen boys.
0:32.6	Reuters refers to this as having been a small Norwegian study when actually it used a decent-sized cohort for this type of study.
0:44.4	The study comes to the astonishing conclusion.
0:47.6	Ready?
0:48.3	That bones adapt to stress the same way all other living tissues do.
0:56.0	They detrain. They adapt to sitting on your ass for most of the day
1:00.0	by losing their density.
1:03.0	In this case, the study was performed on teens,
1:06.0	boys and girls, ages 15 to 19,
1:10.0	and for several reasons I'm not addressing the findings on the
1:14.2	girls. You'll have to read the paper to see why. And this is why that it's attracting so much
1:20.6	attention. The kids were divided into groups based on the amount of time they spent watching TV or on
1:26.7	the computer on weekends and weekdays.
1:30.3	Astonishingly, as I've already mentioned, those boys who watched the most TV or spent the most time online had lower bone density than those who spent less.
1:41.3	Now you may hear this reported in the media in such a way as to infer that the rays from the TV
1:48.6	screen lowered the density of the lazy little creature's bones. This will be explained by people
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