Thrift

I know this has probaly been asked before and I was wonder about weightlifting stunting your growth. I start at about the summer before 7th grade and I was 12. Im 14 now about 5'4 and i bench 205 and about to got to the 9th grade , and im wondering if lifting wieghts has stunted my growth?

Mudge

I started when I was 11 and I grew to 6'2", I do not believe in it stunting your growth at all. Steroids yes, lifting no.

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Thrift

how old are you now?

squanto

i also started lifting at 11, and im 5'11". youre only 14, many males have growth spurts as late as 18-20 years old! my brother grew an inch or 2 at 18 years old. what do your parents look like? if theyre both tall, its unlikely you will stay at 5'4". dont sweat it... just try to stay healthy and you will probably grow more.

Thrift

hmm..

SportinStyle

Well I've been lifting for about 2 years now... and I have shot up from 5'9 to 6'3 now and I'm only 16. If anything, weight-training made me grow more , considering my parents are both under 6 foot as well as my grandparents.

I don't train hard, eat right, and do the things I do for others. I do it for myself.



....did I mention the ladies too???

aztecwolf

I started at 5'11" 7-8 years ago when i was 16-17, I'm the same height today. i got my growth surge from 7th-9th grade

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aztecwolf

as true as that is i wouldn't expect to be 6 feet tall unless any of your parents are tall and had late growth spurts, but then again David Robinson grew something like 9 inches when he was in college, man he came in as a guard and left as a center

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"If you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding. How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?" Pink Floyd, Another Brick in the Wall

Thrift

Kewl, I started when I in 7th about neway and im about to go to the 9th
that really helps thanks.

Thrift

Another thing, I heard that drinking milk helpsprevent stunting your growth?

Erik

My kids have been lifting for a few years. I don't know how great the gains are before puberty, but lifting during puberty is a monstrous edge. The gains are freakish.
The New England Journal of medicine published a article on it and the upshot was that its great for kids. Makes them strong and resistant to injury. They said that kids can start lifting about the same time they are able to take the trash out by themselves.

pmech

Really cause my boy has been taking out the trash for the last year and a half, including draggin the cans out once a week to the curb, but I doubt it would be good for him to be lifting weights at 8.

I state this for because it is something that I do in fact wonder about. He has been, in fact, begging to lift weights with me for a year. He has been in taekwondo for 3 years and he wants to make his legs stronger for competition. From everything i have read it is pointless for him, and could be damaging for him at this age, yet what you said above sort of contradicts that. Should we then say if the kid is big enough to handle some of the heavier chores he is capable of lifting, light of course? He is rather large for his age, 5' and 95 lbs.

Thrift

I heard that the pro wrestler Crash Holy died because he was lifting at a young age.