I just started weight lifting since I just started im only using 3 pound weights im 11 years old and im 5'5" has it affected my height in any way.
P.S. I play basketball, soccer, and voleyball.
So generally if you are in year 8 stick to running , pushups, situps, shadow boxing and squats (all without weights). Do these things until you drop, to get a good workout. This way you get the maximum growth and strength out of your body while you are growing. So when u do stop growing then your bones are strong and your muscles conditioned. This way when u start weightlifting u can have great progress, but even then u build up slowly.
My Dad was a bodybuilder and is 5'6", and i have been body building for 3 years now and 5'10" and can bench well over 100kg, they say the more you train as you get older your growth genes can get damaged so your children may be small or smaller than they should be, in my opinion its not true!
weight lifting is the best thing in the world until you get injured. Young people like me do not think of consequences. I was really strong and buff as hell last year and had to take time off lifting for school I became weak... really weak, I went back to the gym and tried to put up some weights I used to lift...
guess what happened my chest was still strong but my shoulders gave out and 75 lbs of weight on one arm with one dumbell dislocated it...
every tendon/muscle/ligament was affected in my shoulder... So I have been in and out of doctors, I have to do physical therapy and meanwhile the rest of my body has become strained I am in daily pain... Knees and right bicep tendon as of today...
How could this have happened to me.. It happened all from one stupid action and it messed up everything...
Do you want to be in the same spot...? NO ... If you do weight lifting try just doing light weights all over to get ripped but do not mess up your growth with those heavy big ass man weights.... Your body was not meant to do this at your age...
save yourself from a world of pain
guess what happened my chest was still strong but my shoulders gave out and 75 lbs of weight on one arm with one dumbell dislocated it...
every tendon/muscle/ligament was affected in my shoulder... So I have been in and out of doctors, I have to do physical therapy and meanwhile the rest of my body has become strained I am in daily pain... Knees and right bicep tendon as of today...
How could this have happened to me.. It happened all from one stupid action and it messed up everything...
Do you want to be in the same spot...? NO ... If you do weight lifting try just doing light weights all over to get ripped but do not mess up your growth with those heavy big ass man weights.... Your body was not meant to do this at your age...
save yourself from a world of pain
based on my research; growth doesnt really stop, depending on what you do, if ur bones are immature and u do a lot of heavy weights ur gonna cause too much pressure and they instead on focusing on growth they focus on repair and by the time ur growing period is over, ur bones will stay the same even if u stop, but if with immature bones, light weight lifting with no pressure on bones, can make your bones dense, and for you to do this, you need to have a lot of vitamin D, especially Calcium, Phosporus and sulfur. in order for your body to use these properly for bone growth, you have to give up ur high-protien diets, which most teens love to eat, and also soft drinks, because they contain acidic substances and carbonic components that cuase your body to flush out the Calcium and other essential nutrients needed for bone strength.
i also used to be confused a lot abt growth and sh*t, when i was 13 i did some weights but now im 15 and over the past two years, i havnt done weights and sh*t and naturally as my bones thickened, the biseps tend to look bigger, so best thing i reckon you can do is, let your body grow until 16(at least) or 18, so by then your bones are strong enough to take the pressure, and then do lightweights and go from thereon to heavy weights, as you feel comfortable with lightweights and remember, increase your weights by a little and stop when you think you are pushing yourself to the max, cuz thats when you are slowly damaging your bones. if oyu are in year 8 or 9, stick to pushups and pull ups, cuz in these exercises you dont actually carry all your body weight on your arms, weight gets distributed through ut your body and you feel pressure but with less weight, so naturally it is better for you at this age
Im gonna be 15 in three months and i started full out lifting wieghts and im sore a lot. i play soccer as a goalie and i dont know if i should keep liftng cus im 6 foot and way 165 and i dont want to stunt my growth cus goalkeepers need to be tall and i wouldnt want to be shorter than 6.2. my parents are short but my granparents were tall. i do a lot of squats but i dont know if i should continue........
im 14 and 5'11, been lifting weights since forever, its not true...
im 13 started lifting weights last year the farthest i've gone with weights is benching 130 - 20 times in gym class i normally dont do that i stick to dumbell arm curls and other simple stuff like push-ups, sit-ups, wrist curls, and a few other triceps abs and forearm exercises and i am 5'7 will this in any way affect my growth?
Your not supposed to lift weights every day, It harms your mucsles and can make you weaker.
On another note, I'm 13, 6'0, and I lift 40 lbs dumbells. I weigh about 240 lbs, and yes, I'm 'fat', but When I used a weight machine, it said I weighed 195.6 lbs without fat. So how am I doing? My height probably will not stunt because of the fact that I have been lifting since I was 9.
I was wondering the same thing because I am 13 years old and 5'4 but I want to get strong muscles and biceps too. One of my friends is the same age and about my height, but he lifts a lot of weights and it seems like he is still growing so I'm wondering if I should do that too. I'm pretty sure that push ups wont affect your growth but im starting to do pull ups now and is that like lifting weights where you could stop growing? pleas let me no
i got a quick question im 5'8.5" 16 years old like around what height i would end up when i stop growing ?
I just turned 14 years old and i am in 9th grade and i play soccer for JV ..i am small and skinny…i am taking weight training..my teacher says it doesnt stunt my growth by lifting weights … i am about 5'5" and i eat alot but i cant get bigger..whats the best advice if i want to bulk up for varsity soccer by next year ??? please let me know ASAP.
heck yea it does, ur only 11 even if u use three pounds u should lift weights, hey im 14 almost 15 i dont lift yeat, i do other thngs like push ups,pull ups, and a little of resistance band, if u ever heard of it, it good better than liftting, kid dont lift till ur 16 at least
msjoeboy wrote:
dont lift, look up on google, exercises with resisatance band
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I just started weight lifting since I just started im only using 3 pound weights im 11 years old and im 5'5" has it affected my height in any way.
P.S. I play basketball, soccer, and voleyball.
heck yea it does, ur only 11 even if u use three pounds u should lift weights, hey im 14 almost 15 i dont lift yeat, i do other thngs like push ups,pull ups, and a little of resistance band, if u ever heard of it, it good better than liftting, kid dont lift till ur 16 at least
dont lift, look up on google, exercises with resisatance band
ok, ive been doing one rep max lifting for about a year or two now. im 15 years old and im 6'7''. so i know weightlifting does not stunt growth unless you do it with terrible form. you have two choices if you dont want growth stunted. do 8-12 rep lifting which wont stunt growth at all or you can do heavy lifting but make sure your back is straight and you have great posture and body alignment in every move you take especially suats. i would reccomend doing deadlifts instead of squats. and oh yeah, when i started lifting i was 6'1''.