Weight Training In Adolescents

Competitive sports in some cases are becoming very unhealthy for children. Most children would rather play on a losing team than sit on the bench of a winning team. Youth sports are a great idea to get children up and active, as well as improve their social skills. Just like every other thing in life it is important to practice and work hard to achieve success. However it is unhealthy to push for results over the needs or wants of the child. Aside from the mental stress that young athletes may experience from intense training and physical play long lasting injures is now a growing concern. Fact is competitive sports is a double edge sword if done right it is the greatest thing world, but if done wrong it can be very unhealthy for a child.

Another method of training that has shown to be successful in improving acceleration is power and weight training supported by research from (Chelly, 2009). Mansfield athletics club; Thomas; Spinks and Tricoli.

I will discuss with the parents that assessing the biological age and training age will reduce the risk of injury because the maturity assessment helps to determine the fitness level of their children. Also, a complete health assessment will determine their weakness and strengths, as well as contraindications to exercise. The resistance training program will be based on the children’s maturity level, training age, physical abilities and specific goals. I will gradually increase the volume, intensity and rate of progression to reduce the risk of injury and overtraining. I will incorporate low- impact exercises, as their bones, ligaments, and tendons are not fully developed. Before each training session, they will start with a warm-up and end

Athletics play an immense role in the lives of youth, whether they play with friends for fun or in team competition as student athletes. Regular physical activity helps build and maintain bone and muscle health, helps reduce the risk of developing obesity, and promotes psychological well-being (U.S. Dept.). Public health programs promote the benefits of physical activity, but those benefits are reduced by the possibility of injury (CDC, 2). The participation in athletic sports outweigh the potential of sustaining a concussion.

David Jennings is the corresponding author, and holds five degrees in the area of physical training. As such, he is the main author and approves all the methods and such used in the paper. He he works at Belmont University as an active physical therapist and athletic trainer teacher. Additionally, there is no clearly stated bias. The study was performed by the School of Physical Therapy of Belmont University. This is a neutral source, since they are not actively involved in any youth sports programs, and would not benefit form either a cover-up or exposure of concussion related complications. This is a strictly informational article, and does not attempt to advertise any specific product in line with the results. Since this is a peer reviewed journal article, there are a plethora of cited sources. This article uses footnotes, so every reference is cited by a number which correlates to a source in the works cited page. Overall there are 26 cited sources, and the majority have links to the original

Exercise physiology has previously proven that in order to increase muscular strength and endurance, the frequency, intensity and duration components of a workout must be gradually and independently increased. This has brought up several important questions regarding the effects of strength training in the burgeoning field of prepubescent exercise physiology. The most important and most asked question is can and/or will prepubescent strength training cause developmental-inhibiting musculoskeletal injuries such as epiphyseal plate fractures. These types of fractures can lead to the stunting of limb growth in the affected area(s) and are obviously injuries that can negatively affect the normal development of our youth (Thomas, 1995). The next obvious question was two-fold; what are the benefits, if any, of prepubescent strength-training and do the benefits warrant risking possible physical harm? The last and the least obvious question asked wanted to know what exactly was prepubescent strength-training and what were its safety guidelines?

United States Sports Academy stated’ “Coaches don’t want to be in trouble for hurting kids.” Ways to avoid being responsible for kid’s injuries is to make sure that the kid is properly stretched and are practicing the correct way each practice, game and competition. Coach’s need to make sure that each athlete is doing; Chest and Shoulder Stretches, Triceps Stretches, Back and Shoulder Stretches, Quad Stretches, Hip Stretches, Hamstring Stretches, and Abs and Back stretches

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This mindset is in line with an Integrated Neuromuscular Training (INT) program, which consists of six components (dynamic stabilization, coordination, strength, plyometrics, speed/agility, and fatigue resistance) (Fort et al., 2016). Fort et al. proposed the framework for a program to facilitate higher performance and reduced injury risk by teaching pre-adolescent youth (ages 6 to 12) basic fundamental movements versus sport specific skills. In my opinion, this focus should also avoid promoting and administering nutritional ergogenic supplementation which could mask the fundamentals or push an athlete beyond their physical limits; thereby, increasing the risk for injury. “Adolescent athletes have unique nutritional requirements as a consequence of growth and development and the demands of training and competition. It is an important time in the athlete’s life to acquire knowledge and skills to establish a lifelong relationship with food and develop a healthy physical self-image” (Parker, Simmons, 2017,

It appears that the attention of coaches and parents alike has shifted to developing sport-specific skills early in youth; compared to developing solid foundation skills that apply to all sports and levels of physical activity at all ages . The statistics show that this early specialisation of youth in sport can increase their risk of injury: “Children who specialize in a single sport account for 50% of overuse injuries in young athletes” . If a child is lacking in essential foundation skills such as balance and coordination, they lack the ability to effectively control their body’s movements. Coupled with an increased training workload and a child’s structurally developing body; the risk of injury in both competitive and training environments increases substantially . In Australia, “the frequency of hospital-treated sports injuries is growing at an estimated rate of 6% per year”. Without adequate risk management training, coaches and training staff at local, regional, and state levels are less likely to recognise the links between overtraining and early specialisation with overuse and preventable injuries in juniors. It is even less likely that they should implement injury prevention strategies successfully if at all within their own team environments.

I believe this because if a young adult is big into sports and wants to become better the article says “As it turns out, the overwhelming majority of evidence indicates that weight lifting in young athletes can be very safe and is very effective in promoting strength, enhancing performance of young athletes” This quote from the passage tells you that weight training for young adults makes them stronger and makes them better performers in there sport. Another plus side to weight training as a young adult is bone health. “Bone health is improved through increased bone mineral density.

Before reading the NSCA article on youth resistance programs, I held the common and incorrect belief that strength training could be detrimental towards children because of an increased likelihood of injury, and it could stunt children’s growth due to bone and connective tissue damage. However, after reading this fascinating article, my beliefs have completely changed. I did not realize how many benefits exist for youth resistance programs. The NSCA article is very well written and cogent in that it provides an abundance of research to support its points. One point that I found particularly interesting is implementing more resistance training for obese youth because I have experience working with this population. Last semester, I volunteered at the Children’s Motor Development Program at

In his op-ed article, Anahad O’Conner urges children to begin strength training at a younger age. There are about 30 million children participating in organized sports, and three to four million of those children are getting injured. This does not point to the lack of muscle strength, but strengthening of specific muscles is going to leave the children less vulnerable. “Number of studies show that strengthening the muscles around the knee reduces risk of knee injuries”. Knee injuries are very common in young children, and starting strength training will help prevent those specific injuries. We are not looking to build muscle, but are looking for more of very light weight with higher reps, or even body weight exercises. Children that have seen doctors were told to just rest up, and take it easy. They decided to get another approach, and were told to starting strengthening, and they were back in no time with very

Over the years youth sports has grown into a major stepping stone for an athlete’s career. Children are playing competitive sports at earlier ages, but some kids are still facing problems with being overweight or obese. I always believed overweight and obese to have the same meaning. Once the words were defined they were shown to have different meanings. Overweight, is defined as weight over and above what is required or allowed. (Meriam Webster) Following the definition of obese meaning, very fat: fat in a way that is unhealthy. (Meriam Webster) According to the article 1 in 3 children are either overweight or obese. There have been many studies conducted to get to the conclusions that this article covers.

This case of practice is a peer-coaching situation completed with the physical education/weight-lifting instructor at our high school. For the purpose of the assignment, the mentee will be referred to by the initials BK. The purpose of this practicum aligns with the following purposes from Carr’s Peer Coaching Study Groups (2005):