On Sat, 8 Dec 2007 20:30:16 -0800 (PST), Prisoner at War
<prisoner_at_war@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in misc.fitness.weights:
>
>The claim wasn't that weight-training for teens stunted growth. It
>was why risk it, as there's no definitive evidence either way.
>
>As for your ol' MFW paper flurry game of competing citations, I'm not
>playing. You'll just complain the way ol' Willy Brinks did about some
>detail or other anyway. A look at your non sequitur responses in that
>other thread proves you're just trying to score points instead of
>providing meaningful commentary.
>
>The one thing you can't refute is that the teenage years are the only
>time for any meaningful growth height-wise, whereas a teen has got
>decades thereafter for packing on mass. What's the rush? Weight-
>lifting is not something like tennis or gymnastics, where a youthful
>"head-start" gives a competitive edge in acquiring and perfecting
>necessary skill sets. It's not as simple as hauling groceries, but it
>isn't the kind of s****t which needs such an early attention.
>
>No need to build the rest of the house when the foundation's still
>being laid by Mother Nature. Until there's definitive evidence that
>weight-lifting ("serious" lifting, of course; not just the few
>sessions with 20-lb. dumbbells a lot of you people here sweat over)
>doesn't negatively impact height, just stick to calisthenics.
>
>Kids should be studying and doing homework anyway. =P
So are you saying that kids shouldn't be playing football, basketball,
track and field, baseball, etc.? I've posted here many times about my
teenage powerlifting years and my 3 brothers that never powerlifted
nor did they really do any weight training. We are all within 3
inches in height and I'm not the shortest. And, I was squatting 405
at 165 at the age of 17 with just a belt. If anything were to stunt
growth, I would think that would do it.
Now, another interesting thing about this subject was posited by my
good dive buddy in Florida, Curtis. He was wondering what effects
excess nitrogen had on epiphyseal plates in teenagers and children who
weren't finished growing. PADI (as well as a number of other scuba
certification agencies) will not allow divers under the age of 14 to
dive below 40 feet. I had always thought it was due to reasons other
than gas physiology and its affects on children.
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