Weights Stunt Your Growth?

JeremiahStone
JeremiahStone Posts: 682 Member
edited November 8 in Fitness and Exercise
Is it true that weight training stunts growths and even makes you shorter?

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  • 2live4ever79
    2live4ever79 Posts: 79 Member
    That's so true
  • shovav91
    shovav91 Posts: 2,335 Member
    It also makes you fat. Just say no to weights.
  • taso42
    taso42 Posts: 8,980 Member
    also, your hair will fall out
  • IronmanPanda
    IronmanPanda Posts: 2,083 Member
    True. I haven't gotten any taller since I started lifting again this year.
  • Contrarian
    Contrarian Posts: 8,138 Member
    Yup. It's all true.
  • JeremiahStone
    JeremiahStone Posts: 682 Member
    the sarcasm reeks in here
  • thefuzz1290
    thefuzz1290 Posts: 777 Member
    It will stunt your outward growth.

    All sarcasm aside, it has been said that it could stunt the growth in children if weight training is introduced too young.
  • iwantniceabs
    iwantniceabs Posts: 357 Member
    hahahahaha
  • Cait_Sidhe
    Cait_Sidhe Posts: 3,150 Member
    Wait.... What? :indifferent:
  • sexforjaffacakes
    sexforjaffacakes Posts: 1,001 Member
    It will stunt your outward growth.

    All sarcasm aside, it has been said that it could stunt the growth in children if weight training is introduced too young.

    This. But you don't look like a child, so yay for weights!
  • LaMujerMasBonitaDelMundo
    LaMujerMasBonitaDelMundo Posts: 3,634 Member
    Well if you're already an adult, why bother with the growth thing. It doesn't matter if you're lifting weights, we usually stop growing taller at around 18-21 years old.
  • missdelarocha
    missdelarocha Posts: 32 Member
    Everybody is trolololing, the answer is no, weights don't stunt growth it's just an old myth, they have a teen section and some info on it at bodybuilding.com I think.
  • cartea01
    cartea01 Posts: 156 Member
    Adults aren't growing (vertically at least) therefore there is nothing to be stunted.

    In children who are still growing, weights can cause problems because their growth plates are fragile and lifting weights can damage them. If this happens, it can stop the bone growing properly. Children can still do strength training but exercises should be done against their own body weight (push ups, sit ups, etc) or using resistance bands.
  • ingies2011
    ingies2011 Posts: 127 Member
    Like a previous poster said, maybe it stunts your growth outwards, lol

    If you measure yourself in the morning and in the evening after you have been on your feet all day you probably find that gravity shrinks you about a third of an inch or so, so maybe if you do heavy weights you may shrink even more....
  • krypt5
    krypt5 Posts: 243 Member
    It will stunt your outward growth.

    All sarcasm aside, it has been said that it could stunt the growth in children if weight training is introduced too young.

    Like you said, it "could" stunt growth at an early age, due to undeveloped and weak growth plates. Weight lifting is not the top cause though.
  • thefuzz1290
    thefuzz1290 Posts: 777 Member
    I want to clarify what I meant by child. Child as in pre-pubesant, or early on in puberty. Teens can lift weights, and its more effective for the long run if they do. I know parents who have started weight training with their kids as early as 7yo.
  • gdunn55
    gdunn55 Posts: 363
    I heard it'll make your kids be born naked.
  • krypt5
    krypt5 Posts: 243 Member
    I heard it'll make your kids be born naked.
    :laugh:
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