I’m a teen and I want to know. Don’t want to screw myself over.
Only benching stunts muscle growth–you should work out more of your body if you want to build.
No that’s an old wives tale. Please hear me out bro. dont just train your chest and arms. After a while the imbalances in your body will become more blatant ie chicken legs.
Yeah muscle imbalance injuries are more dangerous than stunting growth plates. Stunting growth is an old wives tale.
I actually gained the most height in a single growth spurt once I started working out. I do not think working out actually did this, just the right timing. What I am saying that it is not harmful toward your height.
And listen to the other posts, do not just train bench. You will not gain respect from anyone like that.
As others have said “Only benching is what will Fuck you up”
So u need to start squating, deadlifting, pullups, rowing, cleaning, etc…
[quote]Gigaman.EXE wrote:
I’m a teen and I want to know. Don’t want to screw myself over.[/quote]
Think about it… sprinting, jumping tackling etc. usually exposes your body to much greater forces than lifting in the weight room, provided your form isn’t totally off.
As it has been said already, benching alone is a bad idea, though.
By the way: Judging by the thread in the Rate My Physique forum, I’m still calling troll.
I’m 19, I was 5’ 6" until 5 months ago when I had some aggrevation in my shoulder.
The chiropractor told me to stop training for a month, I tried to go back after the month but I broke my hand, then had a bad virus for a couple of weeks.
I haven’t trained in 5 months (squatted specfically) and I am now 5’ 8".
Hooray for spinal compression?
muscle imbalance
so train with dumbbells!!!
train hard…and for cardio play basketball
God damn this is stupid. Benching and squatting will not stunt your growth. And I’d love to see the weights you guys are squatting to cause enough “spinal compression” to actually affect your height.
Let me go ahead and interrupt the next thread: lifting weights won’t make you muscle bound and inflexible and when you quit lifting, it doesn’t turn to fat.
What is this, 1950???