Yeah, I dont see any point to push weights on a kid. Push ups and sit ups and so on will be good if you are thinking the kid might be good for a serious athlete, but weights are about bulking up, and simply, kids have too fast a metabolism, they store muscle way harder than adults do. There is little point for trying to get a 10 year old to beef up, they just need some push ups and stuff for strength, and some good stretching. As far as the MA training goes, I dont see why not pretty much the same as adults; but make sure they understand control and respect before sparring.
Weights aren’t for “bulking up”. Eating is. Weights served lots of purposes, including training strength and power. Again, how is it that when you touch a piece of iron, the workout is alluva sudden different than if you had the exact same level of resistance from a bodyweight exercise?
Culled from : Workouts for the younger people. - No BS Martial Arts
My sisters did weights as part of their off-seasion training when they did volleyball and basketball in middle and high school. Many kids into sports to them, and for many purposes other than bulking up. I could go on and on explaining why weights are about bulking up, but I’m too fucking tired of having this same fucking argument despite the fact it’s been fucking documented a million fucking times already in the fucking sticky threads.
Tenchu, next time you deem to give an opinion about weights in the PT forums, please do the world a favor and, for the love of fucking God, read the goddam sticky thread and the information in it about weight/strenght training.
Enough shitting on the PT forums.
WTF is wrong with you?
What I mean is it is muscle tearing that bulks you up, weights are best for this given body resistance requires so many reps to get to that level where they tear. Kids heal fast, have a fast metabolism, they are harder to store fat (in countries other than America, for some reason). So being unable to put on fat, and healing to fast to rip the muscles, it is really hard to beef up when young as it is easier when you hit your 20’s. Kids would gain more benefit from focusing on other parts of MA exersizes, weight lifting will show small results for younger people.
Again, weights serve all sorts of purposes, not just “bulking up”. You can train CNS efficiency with weights, which increases the development of both power and strength, while not contributing a great deal to sacroplasmic hypertrophy as you contend that weights are “good for”.
And it doesn’t take more reps of the same weight to create “muscle tears”, as once you reach a certain rep stage you are no longer working towards sacroplasmic hypertrophy, but have now entered the realm of endurance training.
The only person talking about beefing up is you. I use weights to develop strength and power, as have many eastern european block countries since the time of the soviets and many high schools in the United States.