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Originally Posted by rem1956
Depending on the age and overall general health of the kid, you need to be careful when doing weight training with children. Their bone structures and joint development are not as fully developed as they become in teen or later years. It has something to do with the growth plates of developing kids.
I believe that the NSCA does not recommend strength training with weights for anyone under the age of 12, but I could be wrong.
I would tend to think that perhaps the trainer was being super careful about training this kid?
Trainers in here....what's your take on this?
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Or the kid could have been learning to squat his own bodyweight because that's very close to a movement that he may be doing playing on the playground. I don't think that natural movements were growth debilitating.
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