Comments on: Meet the peewee powerlifters

By: Redwolfe

Redwolfe — Fri, 11 May 2018 22:40:10 +0000

I can’t help but think of this as mostly positive. Strength training will teach kids to take care of their bodies, and that success is the result of consistent action over a long period of time, without immediate positive feedback. Those two lessons are rarely learned by youth these days. I expect that if you come back in 20 years, you will find that these kids greatly outperformed their peers at just about everything.

By: Kirk

Kirk — Thu, 10 May 2018 21:39:01 +0000

First thing I thought of, too…

We very badly need to be doing some serious longitudinal studies on all this stuff as we make these changes. My guess is that, much like the Olympic gymnast programs, we’re going to see some severe side effects on things like fertility and joint health.

There’s a reason the old school did things the way they did, and arrived at the solutions they had. Empirical observation sometimes leads to better results, even if nobody documents it and/or arrives at the conclusion through reproducible experiment and analysis.

By: Phil B

Phil B — Thu, 10 May 2018 21:24:23 +0000

I used to teach Aikido a while ago and it was recognised that children under age 14 or thereabouts should NOT take classes or practice because the long bones of their body, before puberty were still relatively soft and developing. Too much stress on the wrists in particular would cause problems later on in life.

Wait a few years until the joint problems start to appear …

But who cares about that as long as the girls can do whatever they want. Grrrrl power is MUCH more important, eh?