Inside China's sports factory (sorry, I could not come up with a better name), I have seen kids as young as 3 years being trained for various sports (through videos, of course). This seems sinister, right? How young is too young for training?
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As long as it's an age that's going to endanger the kid, I would say that's when it's too young for a kid to train. Although, it's not all kinds of training kids can take part in as a result of their age.
Young children at 3 years of age can start to do little training beyond the basic play they do . It could be simply be play-based learning that could help them to develop their movement skills instead of being forced toward specialized athletics training.
I have watched videos about Chinese kids being trained on different skills-physical, culinary, sewing, carpentry, etc. I think it is incorporated in their curriculum. There age specific trainings that young people can engage in.
Any kid that is below 5 years of age have no business with any kind of physical training. It is purely being inconsiderate to subject them to those kid of trainings very early..
Let them enjoy their baby lives please.
Let them enjoy their baby lives please.
Do you think it is ok for kids as young as 14 years to train in a gym? I am asking this question because I have a cousin who is just 14 years but he has started lifting weight.
It appears inappropriate to have children engage in formal sports training before reaching three years of age. Young children at that developmental stage should dedicate themselves to free play instead of concentrating on a single sport
Training programs targeting three-year-old children for formal training should not be allowed because it seems disgraceful to me. Winning takes precedence over child development in this situation. Children must experience childhood through playtime before discovering their interests without facing the stress of training at an intense level.
I would say that it's fine to train as young as three for any sport. That said, you need progressive overload. You couldn't just put one 3-year-old with another 4-year-old, with 1 year more of training, as permanent injury can occur.
If they're just running around and getting the fundamentals down, I don't see a problem with it.
It's not until you push them to the extreme, day-in-day-out, where things can go horribly wrong. An injury at that age could close a growth plate which would limit their fullest potential for life if that does happen.
There should also be social development balance with training too, as they could not develop socially in the way that their peers do if they're solely focused on taking home the gold and not mingling with kids their own age in classroom or other settings.
If they're just running around and getting the fundamentals down, I don't see a problem with it.
It's not until you push them to the extreme, day-in-day-out, where things can go horribly wrong. An injury at that age could close a growth plate which would limit their fullest potential for life if that does happen.
There should also be social development balance with training too, as they could not develop socially in the way that their peers do if they're solely focused on taking home the gold and not mingling with kids their own age in classroom or other settings.
It depends on the sport you want to do, but I think that for most sports there is no specific age at which it is optimal to start, discounting for example bodybuilding, which I do not think that a child or adolescent should get involved in this sport until their body is fully developed.
Most definitely as bodybuilding, with the help of hormones, can cause irreversible harm.
It's a wonder that there's nothing wrong — that we know of, or can see externally as steroids can do a number internally — with Little Hercules.
However, he only grew to 5'8"-5'9", which might not've been his genetic maximum.
Today, it is much easier for parents to allow their kids to start training at the very young age but it's not something that was very much acceptable or allowed by our parents when we are kids during our time.
I think it's more of a thing about change or shift in culture that makes it possible for parents to allow their kids train at younger age.
I think it's more of a thing about change or shift in culture that makes it possible for parents to allow their kids train at younger age.
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