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Weightlifting for Adolescents – Guidelines for Lifting Safe

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000

While it’s clear that a healthy body with a lot of lean muscle mass is just as beneficial to a adolescent as it is to an adult, the experts have entered a hot debate on whether weightlifting is safe for adolescents or not. Adolescents as young as 13 or 14 are now entering bodybuilding contests and there are adolescents that have more muscle than most grown men. While some say this is perfectly safe and healthy others argue that an adolescent’s body is not finished growing and weightlifting is unsafe.

Adolescents need to be supervised when they are strength training and parents must use their best judgment when determining what is appropriate for their child and what may be crossing the line.

Getting Started

You are never too young to start strengthening the body with movements that use your own body weight. This would include push-ups, sit-ups, chin-ups, crunches, tricep dips and lunges. Kids who are into sports and martial arts often start doing this type of strength training

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THE REAL ATHLETE

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000

We often picture athletes as trim people clad in sporty get-ups, feet fitted with the latest running shoes, and under strict training for an upcoming sports event. Without these things, we hardly think of anyone as an “athlete.”

There are athletes called “athletic players” who fit the first definition-trim guys in sporty get-ups sponsored by big-time companies. They are out there to win and would do all to win. Though champions, most of them are not yet mature enough to understand why they are athletes. They just know that they are supposed to win a competition, so they must be fit.

There is a unique breed of athletes who we ought to know about and should try to emulate. They are the “ace athletes,” and becoming one is the measure of true success in sports.

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A real or ace athlete is not only athletic; his life revolves around sports. Though in and out of formal training for official events, he is always in self-training. Once an ace athlete, always an ace athlete; a real call

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Bodybuilding: Can You Do It?

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000

Many people embark in this crusade of developing the muscles, but few realize the magnitude of work and discipline involved. A lot plunge headlong into purchasing the latest gadgets and machines in body sculpturing, only to give up too soon. Their gym equipment and gadgets later become historical artifacts of their past whim.

Before you buy anything, ask yourself first if you really want to do this thing. Muscles do not grow just because you have the equipment. This sounds absurd, but many people seem to think this way. They buy all sorts of equipment, do little or nothing at all, and then wonder why their muscles are not developing. Be firm in your decision to develop a stunning physique, and never be discouraged when it takes a long time for those shapely muscles to emerge.

You must understand that bodybuilding is a discipline, like a profession or career. You do not become a doctor or an engineer overnight, or even after a year. Likewise, you do not stop studying just becaus

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