The sport helps the person to develop, strengthen muscles and grow. It is considered to be that not all types of exercise stresses are suitable for the child. Weightlifting, it is mean or useful to the growing organism?
Choosing the sports direction for the child, parents try to find out about positive and negative sides of this look in advance. Those who wish to send the kid to section of weightlifting or on occupations powerlifting, are interested whether exercise stresses will affect growth of the child?
Occupations with the post do the person lower?
It is noticed that girls can grow up to 19 years, the young man up to 22. The active growth phase at teenagers comes: • At girls – with 11 to 13 • At guys – with 13 to 16. During this period the child in the year can add 7–10 cm. Therefore the parent don't want to give them to weightlifting sections not to slow down this process.
There is the opinion that active occupations and heavy loadings will do harm to the weak organism. Hormones of growth will be spent for gain of muscle bulk, energy and nutrients will be sent not to that course. The growing organism won't cope with loading that will negatively affect formation of the body of the child and work of his internals and systems. The conducted researches showed that it not so. At observance of healthy nutrition, all norms on performance of exercises and exact calculation of loadings, the weightlifting won't do any harm to health. The physical education, on the contrary, helps to strengthen both bones, and muscles. If to measure human height before and after occupations with the post, then it will change and the person "will decrease" by 3 cm. It is admissible norm.
Growth of any person during the day changes. Without loadings the difference of the measurements made in the morning will make 1 – 2 cm also in the evening. If you bore heavy bags or drew furniture, then you could become 1.5 cm shorter and more, for some time.
Changes will be connected with consolidation of intervertebral vertebras. With age any person begins to decrease in growth. In 60 years you will become 2-3 cm lower, and in 80 – on 5-7 cm, unlike 22 years.
Power loadings don't affect human height
Usually in section such as powerlifting, weightlifting and bodybuilding connected with heavy exercise stresses, begin to take kids at the age of 8–9 years. The children's body begins to be formed, and exercise stresses help to develop bone structure and muscles correctly. There is the opinion that exercises with the post slow down these processes. Allegedly the post on shoulders presses on the backbone and it doesn't allow the child grow. The coach on weightlifting will tell you that it is the myth.
In the week on trainings about 8 hours are spent, the clean time spent of the post for shoulders will make only 30 min. These are 0.3% of total time, other 99.7% nothing presses on the backbone, and the child grows.
It is proved that exercise stresses, occupations with the post including, stimulate production of hormones of growth. Their most part at children leaves on development and growth of the bone skeleton. If to referee on growth of the famous athletes-weightlifters, then it is necessary to consider that thickset and undersized people it is steadier to stand on feet. At the expense of it, success generally undersized big guys try to obtain. They can lift bigger weight and longer keep it. Therefore if you or your child wish to be engaged in weightlifting, don't doubt. Any exercise stresses under observation of the skilled coach won't do harm.