Should Kids Lift Weights?🤔

[SquatUniversity]

What are your thoughts on this?
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Shout out secretofathleticism for allowing me to share this video - original vid of the selection process from @babyhills

[iloveprivacy]

I can see the broad-jump screening being adopted elsewhere, but there's NO WAY the palpating & visual exam would pass in US/Can.

[grey]

For some reason, it felt like the main question wasn't answered 😂

[FilmFlam-]

This is not a good thing.
Teaching kids exercise early is.
This is selecting what a kid will do their entire life for them at the age of 4.

[Hsitas]

What he’s talking about is prioritizing national pride over the well-being and personal growth of the child. It's less about fostering a healthy relationship with sports and more about grooming young athletes for a selfish agenda of bringing medals in the name of their country. I don’t see how it correlates to the main argument for should kids lift weights or not?

[GeneralUile]

My main takeaway is that ALL of the top tier Olympians will go through a process like this. Maybe not exactly like what the video showed us, but you can't say that Simone Biles, Usain Bolt, Mijain Lopez, Teddy Riner and other top tier athletes haven't dedicated their time and effort since an early age.

However I do feel that most of them tend to live normal, healthy lives after they retire. It is strict early on for a kid, but they tend to reap those fruits and be revered.

[esta]

The child should do what they like, as long as the adults are providing an enriched environment for them to develop.

[threearrows]

You remember that book, The Giver? China is scary. My 7 yo picked up a 15 lb bar bell and 5 lb weights today and did rounds of push presses JUST bc he wanted to. He loved it. It wasn't too heavy for him, he didn't hurt himself. I'm letting my kids enjoy exercise. It doesn't have to be their entire life.

[lilbuglife]

If you watch the full video, they do this screening and then consult the kids and parents whether they want to pursue weightlifting or not. As explained in the video, mostly the kids are the ones excited about it while the parents seem to be more reserved about it. They’re not forcing anybody into doing this.

[joncarbone]

Moderation is key. Most kids these days don’t get enough exercise. Too much exercise is also bad

[bravenkind]

I think this is kinda smart. If they think a kid will be good at something they have a career option right there! Over here people just choose (which isn’t a bad thing) but sometimes they don’t know better and choose wrong.

[BluegillGreg]

That girl cleaning the full sized plates is adorable! Great depth, too!

[pipp]

I'm open to the idea of it being good for the kids, but this is not an argument in favour of that. Athletes are NOT healthy people. Many who start early also get injured permanently, early, instead of late.

[travelchannel]

All of those children would benefit throughout life from proper weight training.

[sunandrain]

Would be interesting to see if one of the rejected non - glutes dominant kids were given the same training opportunities as the glutes - dominant kids.

[Yupppi]

Also just starting early is a huge headstart naturally. Learning the techniques when you're still in that highly adaptable stage will not be a negative if it's kept in conservative progression and avoiding injuries. Usually the way to long successful career with athletes is building it up without injuries over a long time over peaking as junior. Many who become junior champions and push junior records run into a wall shortly when they peaked too early.

[tanupprasai]

This is not a prison camp where kids are coerced into slavery. The selection is explained/consented to by both the kids and their parents and the candidates step forward voluntarily, they have every right to say ' no, we aren't interested ' at any time if they are uncomfortable with any part of the process. There's nothing wrong with selecting the most promising ones out of a group of enthusiastic interested candidates. Im sure it happens in every country interested in making a mark in sports. Just because its happening in a country people have been told to hate doesn't automatically make it abuse or slavery.

[juliocesarsalazargarcia]

Calm down, people in the coments. The other side of the coin also has its own disadvantages: people that never found the thing for which they were gifted because nobody told them they were made for it and then they get waisted or underdeveloped inside activities for which their natural talents won't shine. There is also people that discovered their gifts too late in life when there is no more oportunity to develop their talent. People who end up bitter because of all this.

[mason]

Bro keeps getting us with the thumbnails 😂

[trapezius]

This is how all the gymnasts and weightlifters have been selected in China and all the countries formerly part of USSR. That explains why they get so many medals in those sports.