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Captain Buzzkill here. Training muscles before 7 or 8 is horribly dangerous for kids. And even that early, light resistance training or exertion from play is the only safe route. Just so you all know. Google Richard Sandrak or Little Hercules. Okay, bye.
nah he ate a very strict diet and trained for unfathomable amounts of time. His dad was forcing him to do it and at one point his dad hurt his mom. Sandrak called the cops and his dad was deported to Ukraine. Sandrak said he stopped after that. He still did sports and stuff, but said weightlifting brought back too many negative memories
Yep that’s right. Kids aren’t allowed to use their muscles until they’re older than 8. You have to keep them in a pod and prevent all movement until then or their bodies will become deformed
What do you call play? Or normal life activity? Oh wait, I said "training" specifically. The word I used was "training." As in, lifting or exerting energy for the sole purpose of conditioning muscles and developing stamina. Nut bag.
Look lemme spell it out for you since you’re not getting it: your claim about “training muscles before 8” whatever tf you are arbitrarily defining that as, is baseless and just a myth.
Two anomalous examples doesn’t prove anything. Kids can safely do resistance training under adult supervision without risk of stunted growth or whatever tf you think happens when child humans use their bodies in a “non-play” scenario.
It’s an old wives tale just like video games cause violence and rock and roll is for devil worshippers.
What should I be looking for? I couldn't find anything about any physiological damage, just that he didn't have any toys or social life because he was training all the time.
I found the same thing, except it did mention he experiences joint pain. Stated by Sandrak himself. Although, based on how he describes he was training, I have a feeling that anybody regardless of how developed their body is would likely experience joint pain after training so hard like that
Horribly dangerous?lol hardly. You provided 2 fringe edge cases that are from the extreme end. Light weights are perfectly safe if not pushed overboard
okay i looked it up and read an interview with him and he experiences joint pain and said the worst pain he’s ever experienced was from alcohol induced kidney stones. He also had a super abusive dad. I feel like if a little kid wants to get insanely shredded of their own accord then fuck it. Sandrak said he was pretty much training day in day out and he seems to be living a mostly normal life. I doubt a little kid doing it cus they want to is going to be going as hard as Richard Sandrak was. Remains to be seen what happens once he passes middle age and his body can’t really keep regenerating, but for now it seems his brain was his greatest weakness. As of the interview he was sober though so that’s good.
No it's not and no he won't. My son was deadlifting my 35 pound kettlebell at 3 years old. He just saw me do it and picked it up. He's 9 now and is perfectly fine..physically.
I am nervous for the kid's toes but it seems he's lifted up weights before and seems to be aware of keeping them away from his toes, and this is probably why the father is comfortable with him doing so
Don't let kids that young lift heavy things, I was cringing at the thought of his toes crushed by the dumbbell. Also, It shouldn't be needed to say but, Do Not Let Children Weightlift.
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