5 Reasons to Start Strength Training With Your Kids Today
What is safer for children? Lift weights or watch TV? Some might argue that watching television is safer because the child does not move and is at risk of injury. However, studies show that strength training, when performed under qualified supervision and properly sized training equipment, can provide immediate and long-term positive effects. Let’s dig into the reasoning and assume that kids who are strength training are doing so in a supervised setting with appropriately sized equipment.
1) Reduce the risk of injury when practicing sports. Just like the weekend warrior, if you take a child from doing relatively nothing to playing a really hard sport without proper muscle development or coordination, chances are the child will end up hurt. Strength training will help your child develop coordination and develop growing muscles. Strength training could also improve sports performance, which could lead to increased child activity outside of sport.
2) Increase bone density. We all hear grow to drink your milk for strong bones, well strength training does the same thing. Strength training adds stress to the bone, so the body responds by increasing the density of the bones making them harder and less likely to break.
3) Better body composition. We all know that there is a serious obesity problem in the world today. Too much easy food and little movement. A good way to combat this is strength training. Strength training = more muscle that helps burn calories even when doing the exercise itself. Although the child may not have the best diet, the muscles they have developed can help keep the child in a healthy weight range.
4) Self-esteem. As a father, he always wishes that his son would not fall into depression and have a positive outlook on life. Reasons 1 and 3 above are a good start to a lifetime of positive self-esteem. Who wouldn’t want to be the fastest kid in class or the highest jumper in a basketball league?
5) Develop good clothes. What better time to make a change in the future than to reach out to the people who will eventually rule this world? Teaching children how to be their best through proper nutrition, positive thinking, and hard work sets them up for success throughout their lives. All of this can be achieved through strength training. To properly recover from weight lifting you need a balanced diet. To progress in lifting heavier weights, you must think positively and want to succeed. And finally it will show the children that when you put in the effort, good things will come.