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selena · 04-10-2009, 05:31 AM

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Question for you guys that are in to fitness. I have a 13 year old son. (turned 13 in Jan) He was chunky when he was younger, but he has really started to slim down as he's gotten older, and basically, we avoid junk/bad-for-you-food.

He is a child who enjoys physical activity. I suppose "requires" is a better word for it, as he truly needs outdoor active time on a daily basis.

He's always been involved in sports until this past winter when I had to take him off the basketball team because of grades. We were going through a very stressful legal thing with his dad, and his grades went to hell.

He does like being on the computer to chat on cbssports line and facebook, but other than that, he has not touched a video game controller voluntarily for months.

Now that we've gotten that background out of the way...he wants to start strength training. I know that free weights are supposedly better, but this is a child who's interests (outside of sports) change at the blink of an eye. So I am not going out to buy them. We have a bowflex, and that will do for now.

IF...and this is the big if...

in your opinion, at what age can a boy start to safely train with weights? And if you think he's old enough now, should he be doing very light stuff with lots of reps, or what? I wish we lived someplace where I could get him a personal trainer for a few sessions, but we don't.

I don't want to tell him no, as I think it is good that he wants to take this step. But I also don't want to let him do something that could fuck him up. It seems like I've heard that common wisdom was to make them wait until they were 14-15.

The flip side of that is that I let him play football on the 3rd-4th grade community league when he was in 1st grade, and he could have broken his freakin' neck doing that. So maybe I'm just skeeking on the weight thing. I just want to make sure that he does it safely, whever that is.

04-10-2009, 05:31 AM
selena Confirmed User Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: On The Edge Posts: 7,994	Guys who train/workout---opinion needed DISCLAIMER: If you are about to post to tell me that the guys of gfy are not doctors, thank you for the input, but I have figured that out by now. Except for Anal Hobbit. I think he might be a proctologist. </DISCLAIMER> Question for you guys that are in to fitness. I have a 13 year old son. (turned 13 in Jan) He was chunky when he was younger, but he has really started to slim down as he's gotten older, and basically, we avoid junk/bad-for-you-food. He is a child who enjoys physical activity. I suppose "requires" is a better word for it, as he truly needs outdoor active time on a daily basis. He's always been involved in sports until this past winter when I had to take him off the basketball team because of grades. We were going through a very stressful legal thing with his dad, and his grades went to hell. He does like being on the computer to chat on cbssports line and facebook, but other than that, he has not touched a video game controller voluntarily for months. Now that we've gotten that background out of the way...he wants to start strength training. I know that free weights are supposedly better, but this is a child who's interests (outside of sports) change at the blink of an eye. So I am not going out to buy them. We have a bowflex, and that will do for now. IF...and this is the big if... in your opinion, at what age can a boy start to safely train with weights? And if you think he's old enough now, should he be doing very light stuff with lots of reps, or what? I wish we lived someplace where I could get him a personal trainer for a few sessions, but we don't. I don't want to tell him no, as I think it is good that he wants to take this step. But I also don't want to let him do something that could fuck him up. It seems like I've heard that common wisdom was to make them wait until they were 14-15. The flip side of that is that I let him play football on the 3rd-4th grade community league when he was in 1st grade, and he could have broken his freakin' neck doing that. So maybe I'm just skeeking on the weight thing. I just want to make sure that he does it safely, whever that is. __________________ ~ Doer of Things at MetArtMoney Where Flawless Beauty Meets Art ~The MetArt Network ~ selena.delgado9