Getting My Son Into Lifting

I have him blocked so it’s funny what you guys post cause I dunno what you talking about.

Yeah, I have to agree with what everyone is saying and definitely don’t push it on him.
Also I’d advise starting him on a program that won’t keep him in the gym too many days a week because he is a kid. I’d start him on Jim Wendler’s 5/3/1 program then after a few months have him try out GVT. Use a 10 rep max to find his actual max so he won’t have to max out, and after you find his max lower it a bit for safety.

Make sure you spend a week or two working on bench press, military press, squat, and deadlift form before you start a program.
As for supplements I’d keep it to vitamins, protein shakes, fish oil, and I’d wait on creatine till he is at least 14. Just try to bulk him up for now, so keep him on a pretty high calorie diet.
Good luck!

[quote]Fuzzyapple.Train wrote:
I have him blocked so it’s funny what you guys post cause I dunno what you talking about.[/quote]
lulz

[quote]Hallowed wrote:

Dood.
That’s not cool.

Twelve year olds have sensitive mucus membranes.

Dad should just mainline the meth for him. Much safer![/quote]

Ofcourse!
No wonder my mucus membranes are so fucked now…

Zute!!!

A good father would just buy him some hookers to help him meet women.

[quote]tveddy wrote:
A good father would just buy him some hookers to help him meet women.[/quote]

Boy: “Dad, could I have 10 dollars to go get a guinea pig?”

Father: “Here’s a 20. Go get yourself a nice girl, son.”

[quote]SteelyD wrote:

[quote]tveddy wrote:
A good father would just buy him some hookers to help him meet women.[/quote]

Boy: “Dad, could I have 10 dollars to go get a guinea pig?”

Father: “Here’s a 20. Go get yourself a nice girl, son.”[/quote]

When I was kid my grandmother caught me jerking off. She said “the good book says its better to spill your seed into the belly of a whore than upon the ground”
I said “Got 20 bucks?”
-Ron White

[quote]tveddy wrote:

[quote]SteelyD wrote:

[quote]tveddy wrote:
A good father would just buy him some hookers to help him meet women.[/quote]

Boy: “Dad, could I have 10 dollars to go get a guinea pig?”

Father: “Here’s a 20. Go get yourself a nice girl, son.”[/quote]

When I was kid my grandmother caught me jerking off. She said “the good book says its better to spill your seed into the belly of a whore than upon the ground”
I said “Got 20 bucks?”
-Ron White[/quote]
love Ron White

[quote]frenchbiceps wrote:

[quote]Hallowed wrote:
Oh god I don’t even know how to deal with this dude.

In general I think it is good for parents to think back to when they were kids/teenagers.

I can’t be the only one who was rebellious… anything forced on a kid can backfire and make the kid hate it… even if they naturally might have enjoyed it.

[/quote]

I’m a 53 year old man. [/quote]

Then you are old enough to know better.

I think its gone.

[quote]Hallowed wrote:
I think its gone.[/quote]
new avi’s a win

[quote]spar4tee wrote:

[quote]Hallowed wrote:
I think its gone.[/quote]
new avi’s a win[/quote]

hey thanks! perfect thread to um, derail…
this avi will probably not last long.

[quote]Hallowed wrote:

this avi will probably not last long.[/quote]

Please keep it

I has to return the WoWo!

[quote]Hallowed wrote:
I has to return the WoWo![/quote]

World of Warcraft Online? You nerd.

What the hell is wrong with people these days…

[quote]Hallowed wrote:

[quote]spar4tee wrote:

[quote]Hallowed wrote:
I think its gone.[/quote]
new avi’s a win[/quote]

hey thanks! perfect thread to um, derail…
this avi will probably not last long.[/quote]

Your avi’s have made many of my days here on this deployment, and i mean that in the least creepiest way possible. gj

[quote]Goheavy03 wrote:
My dad had me training a little bit with him when i was a kid. Nothing serious I went with him to the gym and lifted a little. I got burned out real fast. My advice is to just let him be a kid and get him into it in high school. It might not be good on his joints beeing that youn.[/quote]

There is the myth out there that lifting weights is bad for kids.
There is absolutely no data to back up these assertions… At least as of a year or so ago.

My boy (now 15) has been lifting pretty decently for about 2 years. He was doing 5x5 with sporadic 5/3/1 but schedule is not permitting him to go to gym now, so he’s lifting at home. With our limited equipment volume is safer (no squat rack, no safeties on bench etc.)

He’s far stronger then his peers.

He’s doing this at his pace. He prefers lifting at the gym. He’ll go for a while, then back off for awhile…

SUPS:
Fish oil is health support.
Adequate protien for demands placed upon body.

And of course:

SQUATS AND MILK!

spar4tee: you’re right, I should not have wrote that comment in the first place. It encouraged parental idiocism further.

Again, mea culpa. I delete it.