| Bodybuilding can be advantageous for teenagers in | | | | (many of whom had begun training with heavy |
| numerous ways. Bodybuilding is of course an excellent | | | | weights at a young age) have not strictly adhered to |
| way to keep in shape and maintain good health. Having | | | | this rule and have not suffered in terms of growth, as |
| said that, bodybuilding can allow you far greater | | | | a result. Presently, there seems to be no solid proof to |
| rewards than a body to be proud of. We'll look at this | | | | suggest whether or not weights affect a certain |
| in the article that follows. | | | | individual's growth. |
| A number of parents are concerned about the kind of | | | | Even if working out with particularly heavy weights |
| effects severe exercises (such as those required for | | | | does, in actual fact, have an affect on the bones of |
| bodybuilding) can have on a teenager's body. A | | | | teenagers even then none of them are really in much |
| teenager's body, as we all know, undergoes a number | | | | danger. This is because such an effect can really be |
| of natural changes at it's groeing. So, parents are | | | | harmful only before a teenager reaches a certain level |
| rightly concerned that the additional strain of heavy | | | | of maturity, and majority of teenagers reach the full |
| exercises might prove detrimental to their teenager's | | | | extent of their growth by over and around the age of |
| growth. While there is no real proof to suggest that | | | | 15. Now, surely no 13 or 14 year old will be pumping iron |
| exercising can harm bodily growth many bodybuilding | | | | to build his body and thereby getting his bones all |
| and gym instructors believe that teenage bodybuilder's | | | | screwed up! |
| often suffer from a particular problem that has much | | | | Apart from the growth issue there is the issue, which |
| to do with their being a teenager. This problem | | | | we already discussed and which concerns the basic |
| concerns teenage impulsiveness. To be candid, | | | | problem of being a 'teenager'. Most teenagers feel out |
| breaking rules and disobeying instructions is part of | | | | of place by being neither adults nor children, as a result |
| growing up and being a teenager, and while this might | | | | they try to hasten their life and 'grow up' quicker than |
| be a fun thing to do usually in the gym while working | | | | they are likely to naturally. This speeding up causes |
| with weights nothing could be more harmful than being | | | | many of them to try and emulate everything from the |
| a rebel. Bodybuilding is all about discipline, and | | | | walk to the talk and even the workout regimes of their |
| teenagers do not, as a rule, respond well to discipline. | | | | seniors. Evidently, this can prove a disaster since |
| This is said to be the sole problem that plagues virtually | | | | teenagers are not technically supposed to do things |
| all teenage bodybuilders. | | | | adults do. An adult bodybuilder has far more stamina |
| A lot of people believe that working with | | | | and experience than a regular teenager, as a result |
| heavyweights can impede bones from growing. They | | | | emulating him can prove taxing and even dangerous |
| justify their claim by pointing out that lifting heavy | | | | for a young teenager. |
| weights can expedite the closure of growth plates, | | | | In summation, to be as sure as possible that they don't |
| thereby arresting their growth long before they are | | | | end up hurting themselves irreperably by training too |
| supposed to. While this logic sounds watertight it is yet | | | | hard and imitating better trained adults all teenage |
| to be proven as definitively true. Also, groups opposing | | | | bodybuilders should probably consider the services of |
| this theory have stated that most professional athletes | | | | a trainer for themselves. |