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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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All the better reason to have him begin with deep, body weight squats, or goblet squats, so as not to (incorrectly, I assume) load the spine.
It's this kind of thing that makes me have little faith in most trainers out there... some of the stuff I see at my gym is laughable. But then again, people pay for it so...?