My neighbors little brother wants me to start training him. I don’t know what age to start him at lifting he’s 14 now. When I was his age I started lifting by myself and didn’t have much guidance so did a bunch of stupid shit.
I rather have him learn things right then make the mistakes I made at his age.
I’d say why not. They had weights classes in Junior High at my school. Zephead is only a year older then that and he competes in powerlifting.
teach the kid dammit! 14 is way too old
4 y.o is a good age to have kids playing sports, running around, hanging off of bars, and pulling and throwing a few weights around.
unfortunately kids these days to those activities sitting in front of a TV. Then they wonder how they are so weak, and fat (or skinny) when they hit 22y.o.
I started lifting seriously when I was 14. Now I am 15, and everyday it gets a lot more fun. I realized now what I want to do with my fitness once I am older, and it is always good to get exposed to this when you are younger.
I started when I was about 18, stopped around 22. Lifted intermittently (2/3 month blocks) until Jan 08 where I hope to stay consistent.
I started at 15. no harm in that as long as they have a sage of some sort teaching them right from wrong. I had a bodybuilder in my case.
My son is 14 and has no trouble. If he’s asking, he’s ready.
Hell I wanted to start around 11. The local gym here wouldn’t let me because they didn’t want me to hurt myself. I’d say just make sure they fully recover from any injuries before hitting the weights again. That’s probably the biggest danger to younger kids lifting.
What frikken douchebags, I am going to make my son start learning perfect technique when he is able run. If he can run, he can do everything else. Maybe he will struggle to ride a bike, but he will learn, thats why you learn early and thats why you teach them early. A younger person isn’t going to ASK to lift weights, not until he suffers some kind of personality rebound and his self-confidence is lacking, or until he is SMART enough to know he wants to lift. The thing is, most little kids don’t KNOW what they WANT to know.
You see little children wearing their mother’s choice dorky clothes like jean-jackets and bowl cut hairdoos. FUCK that - stuff like that is not constructive. Weightlifting IS constructive. And DONT give me comments like ‘they can hurt themselves’ or ‘it will stunt their growth’ because unless you get them to do stuff like standing calf-raises with weight on their back they shit like that doesn’t happen, and if it does its YOUR fault, not theirs.
You think lifting weights is stupid? Why are you on this site? If you think its good, but still disagree with me, GET the kids doing gymnastics. I know lots of little gymnastic kids who can do muscle ups and backflips at the age of 8, and could beat up a frikken 15 year old gym-tryhard slob any day. And so when they finally DO start lifting weights, they PWN.
IF they want to get big when they are a teenager, its THAT much easier because they are in good habits. If they dont want to get bigger, that is their choice. Kids will make their own choices, and all parents must understand that, but you should be opening the world up to them so that their choices are easy.
Moral: DON’T WAIT for them to ask, get them doing it anyways. As a parent, guardian, family friend, neighbor - you teach them to be responsible people, get into good habits, GYM is just another habit which SHOULD be part of everyone’s life. TEACH.
What the fuck are you babbling about.
So about those choices again…
If everyone was a weight lifter this would be a boring world.
Actually, exercise should be a habit. Gym is just one choice in a myriad list of health boosting activities. Though the best IMO.
LOL I was just on a rant. Half that shit probably matches the ‘What the fuck are you babbling about.’ category.
The point is that you should get them to start something early, and THEN let them choose, because they will usually never do it on their own. Kids will make choices, but only at a given age - you should make excercise one of YOUR choices for them before that ‘given age’.
Teach them how to eat too. It annoys me that some kids don’t like greens. I don’t like greens but I still eat them, its not like they burn my mouth off. My mother forced me to eat my greens until their effect just wore off and I could eat them with no qualms. ALL of my friends who have avoided this process of being force fed at a young age ALL at some point or another ‘cant’ eat certain vegetables, and only ‘just’ can eat the others.
Do you people notice stuff like this? Or is it just me? I’m 18 years old so dont call me an overreacting parent, I’m a fucking virgin.
You dont have to make your children your slaves, or punching-bag, but please, discipline them so that the other 70 odd years are SO much better for them.
If I’m not sterile, fuck Levrone had a kid, when I have a son I’ll get him lifting those girly dumbbells by the time he can walk.
That’s the spirit!
Edit: Any of you seen the ‘worlds strongest boy’ series of documentaries? Beside the effing douchebag media telling everyone that he could be on roids, when really all he was doing was eating shitloads of old-school protein powder. I reckon THAT kind of dedication (on the dad’s behalf) is a BAD thing. You don’t ever want to get to that point, even if the ripped bugger is sick in competitions. The way his dad pushed him into being so strong and musclular completely destroyed his social life. I feel sorry the boy 
well said forevernade
Here’s what I will be teaching my kids when I start making them:
well said forevernade
Here’s what I will be teaching my kids when I start making them:
this among other stuff…
the point is to instill in kids a love for physical activity. Just like my granddad and my bro did for me when I was little.
The message from those videos is that kids want to do what their parents do. Be a role model. If you’re a couch potato, likely your kids will be too. If you say fit, and your kids see you doing it, they will want to do the same.
I love the kid size barbells.
hahahaha that was so cute
[quote]stuward wrote:
The message from those videos is that kids want to do what their parents do. Be a role model. If you’re a couch potato, likely your kids will be too. If you say fit, and your kids see you doing it, they will want to do the same.
I love the kid size barbells.[/quote]
Totally true. My son, age seven, is now lifting. He dabbled with me a bit but just started getting serious because his daddy got his butt off the sofa and started training. He wants to be like his daddy.
I posted a couple monhs back asking the same question op. I’ll see if I can find it.
Here it is. I got some good feedback on that post.
Those videos are awesome, the deadlift being my favorite. haha.