5 Reasons to Start Strength Training With Your Kids Today

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What is safer for children? Weight lifting or watching TV? Some might argue that watching TV is safer because the child is not moving and risking injury. However, studies show that strength training, when done under qualified supervision and appropriately sized workout equipment, can provide immediate and long-term positive effects. Let's dive into the reasoning and assume that children engaging in strength training are doing so in a supervised environment with appropriately sized equipment.

1) Decrease the risk of injury while playing sports. Like the weekend warrior, if you take a child from doing reliably nothing to playing a sport where they put forth a real effort without the proper muscle development or coordination, the child will more than likely end up hurt. Strength training will help that child develop coordination and develop the growing muscles. Strength training could also enhance sports performance which could lead to more activity from the child outside of the sport.

2) Increase bone density. We all hear growing up to drink your milk for strong bones, well strength training does the same thing. Strength training adds stress to the bone so the body responds by increasing the density of the bones making them harder and less likely to break.

3) Better body composition. We all know there is a severe obesity problem in today's world. Too much easy food and not enough moving around. A good way to combat this is strength training. Strength training = more muscles which helps burn calories even when the exercise itself is done. Even though the child might not have the best diet, the muscles they have developed can help with keeping the child in a healthy weight range.

4) Self-Esteem. As a parent, you always want your child to not fall into depression and have a positive outlook on life. Reasons 1 and 3 above are a good starter for a life of positive self esteem. Who would not like to be the fastest kid in class or the highest jumper in a basketball league.

5) Developing good habits. What better time to make a change in the future then to get to the people that will ever run this world? Teaching children how to be the best through proper eating, thinking positively and hard work sets them up for success through their lives. This all can be accomplished by strength training. In order to recover properly from lifting weights you need a balanced diet. In order to progress to lift heavier weights you need to think positively and want to succeed. And finally it will show children that when you put in hard work, good things will come.

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