Transcript
A (0:00)
What's up everybody? And welcome back to Youth Inc. With Greg Olson. I'm Shelby Baumgartner, your digital host and we have a great one lined up for you today. Coming up a little later, Greg Olson catches up with WNBA star Cheney Ogumike, a conversation that you might want to stick around for. But first, we're going to open up this show with a little fun game of this or that Youth Sports edition. And before we wrap up, Greg pulled from the hat and answered some of your listeners questions. So make sure to stay all the way through. If you haven't already, make sure to subscribe to this YouTube channel and follow wherever you get you think content. All right, let's get into this amazing episode.
B (0:37)
Youth sports in America are at a crossroads and I'm here to help lead the conversation forward. I'm Greg Olson. Each week we're sitting down with top athletes, coaches and more to talk about what's working, what's broken and what's next. Welcome to youthink.
A (0:54)
How old should a kid be when they get private training? Over 12 or under 12?
B (0:58)
I answered this question last week and, and I actually think it, it varies. I think there are some kids that are 9 and 10 that are very emotionally and physically ready to get more like independent privatized training and really make a lot of use of it. I think there's kids that are 15 that can't make use of it. So I, I do think there is a very by the child if your son or daughter is, is physically, mentally and emotionally mature and, and really craves this knowledge and really wants to dive into improvement if they can handle it. I don't necessarily think there has to be an age attached to it.
A (1:32)
How old should a kid be when they lift weights? Seriously over 13 or under 13?
B (1:37)
I think you can lift weights under 13 if done right. I think there's all sorts of knowledge and studies now that understand the ability to control your body, range of motion, balance, coordination. Do I think kids need to be loading up dead deadlift bars and squat bars and putting a ton of load on a young developing spine and back and, and joints? No. So the seriously I guess would be my, the quote I would have to define like underage, being in a weight room, understanding how to move around the weight room, understanding how to move your body, how to work together as a group. I think that can come at all. Ages over 13 is when I would say, okay, now we start applying some load, we start applying some resistance of significant capacity because every time you load your body it's a young developing body, you are stressing and compressing those joints and whatnot. So if done right, I don't think there's an age requirement, but I just think you have to be very careful. At what point of the developmental curve do you introduce different elements of quote unquote, lifting weights?
