The myth? It stunts their growth and it's "bad" for them.
The reality? It's good for them and it basically replaces the hard work rural children did in the past, before suburbs and video games.
The blog is right here.
None of this is a surprise to me personally. I've been training kids for a while now and been researching the subject for even longer. There isn't anything wrong with weight training, sports training, or strength and conditioning in general, for children.
What's fascinating to me is the "science" that the original conjecture was based on. Children doing labor in Japan were undersized, so therefore . . . weight training stunts growth. That's the connection; that's the basis. I'm not sure how exactly that was regarded as sufficient scientific proof for anything in the second half of the 20th century. But it was, and "weights are bad for kids" has been a persistently hard myth to break.
One can only hope this article helps erase that myth.
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