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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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He did seem very, very young. But, older than 12. I would argue that he was stopping where he was stopping because the weight on his shoulders was too much for him. It just didn't look good at all and part of it had to be that he was very new to lifting.
I couldn't believe the horrible form advocated by his trainer.