Weight Lifting for Kids When is always the question? When is it safe for my son or daughter to start lift weights? There is no rule against it at this time. There are parents who take the precaution and wait until the body matures. Most parents sign their son or daughter up to play sports like Baseball, Soccer, and Basketball while growing up. This is good physical exercise that all kids should be doing to stay active and motivated. These sports don’t require you to lift weight, but they can. Tackle Football on the other hand has specific roles that might involve kids to lift weights. Although parents think their kid is not ready at twelve or thirteen and weight lifting is assumed to be risky for kids injury wise, they should be aloud to …show more content…
One negative that is almost always mentioned is injuries, Yes injuries can be a factor, but if a parent, coach, or guardian is watching and teaching them the correct ways to proceed during strength so they are less likely to injure them selves. Another concern is that kids can stunt their growth as well as their growth plates. That is considered a myth to most people but, its still brought up when parents talk about kids lifting weights early in development. Parents want to keep their kids safe at all times, I get that, sometimes it can be not be avoided. It is different for every kid in this situation. The body must be at mature state of mind to conduct the strength training workout while avoiding a major injury. Kids should be able to lift as they please with proper techniques with authorized …show more content…
Kids should lifting controlled weights can help them prevent future injuries from occurring in the first place. Putting some effort to keep kids active and fit while proceeding with extreme caution. There will always be the risk for injuring an ankle but, kids can prevent a torn ACL or MCL in the future. Putting that time in now may save your kid from a sever like the MCL and ACL injury. No one can see into the future but, you can have the piece of mind that it most likely will not happen. Parents should keep that in mind if they decide they want their kid to workout. Like I was talking about earlier, an "old wives' tales used to suggest that strength training would "stunt kids growth." This could easily happen if there is a major accident that injures the growth plate because it is the weakest area of the bone (Stricker)." This is not to scare anyone with kids but, no one knows if it is true or not. The best way is to approach weights is with caution. All you need is to trust your trainers and coaches that they know what they are
Football is possibly too dangerous of a game for young boys and girls to be playing. I am not talking about all forms of football, but more specifically tackle football. Yes, football may possibly be one of America’s loved sport because of the brutality that it consists of; although I believe that there should be an age where kids should start playing such a horrific game. At the age of ten young boys, and girls, should be worrying about who they are going to be playing with outside at recess. Kids should not have to be worried about their friends having to miss school because of a concussion, or worse him or herself.
Though this argument may seem accurate, it does not fully explain some of the major health risks and what the parents and coaches are doing to prevent as many injuries as possible. In conclusion, young athletes should play sports because, youth sports can be a learning experience or it can be a health risk to the athletes. The three main points are how sports keep you healthy, how they build character, and the values that they will learn from sports and how they will use them in the future. Even though there are many health risks involved, the coaches and parents are doing the best they can to prevent their child from getting hurt.
Lastly , in my opinion , I think kids should't play football because it's too dangerous and risky for them to hurt themselves. Now , football may provide good factors for kids to play the game such as the discipline it gives them to grow as a mature young man and the physical activity it provides them to stay in shape and move around , but it does not beat the fact that kids can develop life threatening injuries from playing football. Today's kids are our future and we need to be more worried for their
Regular movement can help children develop stronger muscles, bones and joints in a number of ways. Activities like jumping rope, playing basketball and walking promote bone health while stretching, running and swimming improve muscle flexibility, strength and endurance.
Involving your child in sports is important part of growing up. There are several benefits to children playing sports. The child will learn how to make friends outside of school, church, and family. It will help develop self-esteem and physical skills. They discover what it means to be a member of a team, and how to win and lose with self-respect. Children also need to be active every day; exercise promotes growth and improves physical and emotional health. The Office of the Surgeon General states that active children are at less risk to high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease as well as many cancers (Office of the Surgeon General, January 11, 2007).
It has long been thought that lifting weights at a very young age could stunt a child's growth, but more recent research has found that to be an inaccurate assumption. Dr. Na’ana Constantini was asked if lifting could stunt growth and his response was “ Lifting weights is not dangerous for teenagers if done correctly, with weights up to five kilos or so. It can do them good, by improving their motor ability” (qtd. in Siegel). I agree with this quote, but I feel that the weight mentioned is too broad. A weight of five kilos is only a little over eleven pounds, which would be appropriate for some teens, but the limit to lifting should not be set by age but rather by physical maturity. “ The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that kids avoid advanced use of weights such as in competitive sports of weightlifting, powerlifting and bodybuilding until their bodies
Every sport has its tricks and ways of doing things the right way. You can assure anyone that the sport their child is playing is safe, because there is always a stronger, bigger, faster player than them. Personally, I believe football is a demanding sport that requires a lot of strength, and stamina. If you read the article “Hard Knocks” by Alan Schwarz, it gives a brief story about a young football player. “The autopsy showed that his brain was in the early stage of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, more commonly known as C.T.E.” Many football players die from this condition.
For example, an article states, “A 2006 study on female athletes found that when female students are given more opportunity to participate in athletics in high school, their weight and body mass improve.” ("Home." PublicSchoolReview.com.) Many kids are becoming overweight. “The Center for Disease Control and Prevention reports that the percentage of children aged 12 to 19 considered obese increased from 5 percent in 1980 to 21 percent in 2012.” ("Pros and Cons of Middle School Sports.") There needs to be Middle school sports or even more kids will become obese. When a kid starts playing a sport, he could really get hooked on it and play every week. Before you know it, your kid could be losing more and more weight until they are not overweight anymore. Also, another article states, “Middle school sports such as track and field or cross-country, which can have large squads, provide an excellent opportunity for students to get in shape.” ("Pros and Cons of Middle School Sports.") Students that join a sport and like it won’t be overweight. They will be too focused on their sport that they will be aware of what and how much they eat because they want to do well in their
There has recently been increasing scrutiny debating the merits of strength training in our youth and more importantly the unsafe and unethical training practices that tend to be utilized in implementing strength training programs in all levels of amateur athletics. These controversies have enabled many people associated in medical and exercise sciences to take a further look at the field of prepubescent athletics and their impact on the developmental patterns of the children involved. The research in the field has provided feedback regarding the physiological, mental and social effects - negative and/or positive - that strength training influences over prepubescent growth and development.
If kids are taught the right way to play the game and tackle right I think they should play. Kids will learn discipline and learn respect. Football coaches normally teach their kids to respect the very first day or they will have to run or do exercises that will mentally destroy a player even causing them to throw up. One of the main problems with today's society is that the world is becoming too soft and not letting their kids play something because of a risk of injury. When people can get injured by just walking downtown and trip and hurt themselves.
Many parents will argue about whether kids should be allowed to play sports at such a young age. In my opinion, I think kids shouldn’t be allowed to play sports at a young age. When they grow older, I think that kids should be allowed to play sports. When a young athlete gets injured, coaches may not be trained for an injury and the child can suffer more serious injuries just from that. Kids want to skip practice so they will often fake an injury, serious coaches will use shaming techniques and call athletes “ladies” or man up, and athletes might not have the best protective gear, making them more likely to have a concussion. Worst of all, coaches
Scientifically, a failure to recognize the positives of leading an active and physical lifestyle indirectly negates evolution itself. Our bodies adapt to the conditions we experience. For example, a callus forms because an area of your skin is constantly under stress. The callus is a stronger form of the normal skin and makes the body more conducive to perform a desired task. This can be applied to other physical actions and in this particular instance, youth sports. Saying that physical actions inhibit growth is like saying exercising is bad for a healthy body. Humans need the physical skills often performed in sports to grow and maintain a healthy body. However, it is true that modern society tries to stray away from what nature intends by placing far too great an emphasis on strength and skill rather than health and wellness. It is through this misplaced understanding of athleticism that we can attribute most to injury all the same these injuries, like a callus, build resistance. The injuries sustained in sports usually result in a stronger body just because that’s how the body works. If a part of your body is damaged, the natural course your body takes is to rebuild it stronger than ever to prevent future injury. I can say that is true from my own experiences. I remember times when I was younger participating in martial arts. Yes, the
There are a lot of different injuries in football that can hurt the human body. We love the sport so we keep playing it for the love we have for the game. There are ways that people are training young kids to help prevent the risk of injury. Studies show that football can not only disable you for life, but can also give you a greater risk of injury when you’re older.
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A study showed that NFL players that started playing football before the age of twelve performed significantly worse on brain tests than their counterparts who started later.(Neurology) This has to put stress on your decision of whether letting your child play football at a young age worth