Safe age to start lifting

[1MoreRep]

I really wish I could have started lifting earlier than I did but had the protective parents back in the day and said I needed to let my bones grow lol. What age do you guys think its safe to allow our kids to start working out thses days?

 

[little guy]

I wrestled starting at age 9, played peewee baseball, football so some kind of workout you had to do. I think it's not a bad thing to hit weights early but I don't think a kid should push him or her self to be a BB at the age of 9. That's a bit much

 

[csuperman]

most kids that play football in middle school start around age 12-13

 

[IronJulius]

my gym allows kids to join at age 13. i dont want my boys to start training and lifting heavy until 14, they play sports so push up, sit ups, pull ups, sprints are ok its their body weight

 

[The Dude]

I started at 12. That's when my biceps turned into little mounds and I hit puberty. I'm taller than my mother and father (which isn't saying much)

 

[mcgaret]

Any kind of exercise, including weights, I think is good for kids. But I think any hard core, heavy, lifting, training should wait for
puberty. 15 or 16. Everyone is different though.

 

[charliebigspuds]

YEAH IM ON THE 1 any body weight movement push pull-ups running light weights ect until 15-16..boys can get a good little body doing that they dont need any more heavy pressure on there joints to much growing going on..

 

[Metal85]

heavy i'd say 14, pushups and pull ups as soon as they can/want to

 

[Metal85]

I went to jr high with this kid named Joe Cohen, wikipedia him
Joe Cohen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
dude had never lifted weights in his life, he was like 6 feet tall 205 lbs cut as hell.
Saw him my first day of 7th grade and thought I was gonna die in this school. I was 105 lbs, 5 ft tall, and that was getting chubby bc I started eating lil debbies brownies everyday and one day I was like where did my six pack go and why are my nips getting pointy, so I grew 5 inches that year and stayed the same weight lol.
In ny event I guess it depends on the individual bc this beast could have safely lifted heavy although he didnt need to

 

[Grappler5]

I used to think for a long time that kids shouldn't start doing any lifting until 14-15 years old....then I started researching it, there aren't any studies that really prove that weight training a young age will have any affect on growth plates or anything like that. As long as its done PROPERLY it is safe to start at 7 or 8, keep the weights light work on form and make it fun. Look at farm kids, they grow up picking up heavy things from a very early age and you don't see these kids having too many growth problems, in fact they usually grow up being extremely strong...

http://startingstrength.com/index.php/site/article/youngsters_need_strength_too#.UTyQK_q9LCQ