What happened to these guys?

[stevesmi]

Holy fuck....weight lifting stunts growth in kids.....why cant these people just kill themselves? I am so tired of this shit. You should see the faces on these people at my gym when my 12 year old reps 675 on the sled. That's loaded down with 45's....not some move the pin pulley assisted shit.
You would have to actually fracture a growth plate while lifting to fuck up the kid. What does heavy lifting do? It causes the release of more GH for Christ sake. How does that stunt growth? Tell that to my 5'10" 200 lb 12 year old with the 14.5" bi's and 26" quads.
That doesn't mean you don't have to have them do lots of rotator prehab and teach them to lift intelligently and to not go too heavy with things involving shoulders when they are younger. Because you certainly can fuck up their connective tissue/joints if you are a shit bag parent/trainer. Well hey BTC....really? 675 for legs? Yeah....that's a two rep max and its maybe once a month because he gets super motivated.....AND....its LEGS....not shoulders.



........AND......to elaborate on steve's post its not the weights that stunt the growth of their kids....its the shitty genetics YOU passed along to YOUR kids people!!! Or the SHIT food you feed them. Or the shit bags that teach their kids not to eat meat!! Not the weights.

I gotta deal with parents all the time bro.. I coach and judge HS weightlifting. I try and tell them how much safer weightlifting is than anything else but they don't listen.. there was a teacher at the school whose kid was 6 years old who paralyzed himself playing soccer!! true story. he ran into another kid and it was a fluke thing.

 

[burnthiscorpse]

I gotta deal with parents all the time bro.. I coach and judge HS weightlifting. I try and tell them how much safer weightlifting is than anything else but they don't listen.. there was a teacher at the school whose kid was 6 years old who paralyzed himself playing soccer!! true story. he ran into another kid and it was a fluke thing.

Right....these are the same parents who "reward" their kids with a trip to Mcdonalds then take them home and make them boxed macaroni and cheese and feed them hot pockets and hot dogs.

 

[liffalot]

as a former endurance athlete I pity anyone who thinks endurance athletes are 'healthy' .. do you realize how fucked up my feet, ankles, knees, shins, hips are from doing that? these are PERMANENT injuries that I will have to deal with the rest of my life. the human body did not evolve to run on hard surfaces!!

bodybuilding and weight training is far healthier unless you go out there with a big ego and are a douche when you lift and use bad form. I have to constantly argue with idiot parents in my school who are concerned that weightlifting stunts growth or any of that other nonsense. weightlifting is the safest 'sport' out there. 0 injuries at my school from weight training. do you know how many injuries from soccer, football, volleyball, cross country, track?

Nor are people evolved to run with rubber soles on their feet. Its hilarious really how our culture promotes running like humans are creatures that are evolutionarily meant to run. If we were meant to run we would be on all fours; talk to anyone in anthropology and they will tell you that the evolution to upright walking was a trade off - we gained the ability to carry things and lost the ability for fast, efficient movement. My old man used to be a runner and he had 2 hip replacements and a knee replacement.......BY THE TIME HE WAS 45! He always blames his college football days and I always just laugh and shake my head.