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Bulking Up Stunt Growth?
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Excessive bulking and resistance training can stunt growth, but usually only in pre-pubescent youth. Provided you've seen your first growth spurt and are over the 5 foot height range, you should be ok. However, the ever increasing intensity of fitness training in high school sports is having an impact on reported cases of joint and tissue damage earlier in a person's life. Unless you're working on some set weight goals for sport or something, I wouldn't worry too much about bulking, as size increases will occur through your body's development.
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I hear lifting weights greatly reduces your p enis size
illiniphase4, have you seen any evidence on that? I know there was a theory and a hypothesis was set up, but the study proved the hypothesis to be wrong.
The theory was that putting a lot of weight on bones would cause growth plates to close I think. It's probably one of the biggest myths in weight training.
The theory was that putting a lot of weight on bones would cause growth plates to close I think. It's probably one of the biggest myths in weight training.
In several of my athletic training texts, there is real evidence to support that excessive bulking and heavy resistance training can impact growth plates and cause stunted growth in primarily prepubescent youth. Excessive resistance training can cause the growth plates to close, while excessive bulking can be likened to the more permanent state of childhood obesity, where excess weight gain causes both (growth) hormonal shifts and increased stresses on bone mass.
However, in pubescent youth, it is less likely for stunting to occur due to resistance training (though it is still a possibility), there is both annecdotal (the huge increase in high school to early college fitness training for competative sport) and research-based evidence that it is uncommon for stunted growth due to resistance training. Excessive bulking has a similar effect to that of prepubescent youth, however, it seems far less likely to have a large impact due to the fact that the primary growth spurts have usually already occurred and the secondary teenage have already began.
The larger culprit in teenage youth would be steroids (not sure about stuff like HGH though) which cause such a severe impact to the internal body chemistry that it can slow or stop height growth, among all of the other things it can cause.
Aside from the increased occurrence of reported joint injury earlier in a persons life (believed to be caused by the ever increasing competition at the junior high and high school level sports, there are also other medical conditions that can commonly arise due to physical training prepubescent (and sometimes pubescent) athletes. More common medical issues inlcude hip joint injuries such as Legg-Calve-Perthes Disease which generally occurs in children (normally boys) ages 4-10. While a direct cause has not been established this disease falls under a form of osteochondrosis believed to be caused by excessive wear on the hip joint, and can lead to the misshapen development of the head of the femur leading to further complications. In young girls, snapping hip phenomenon occurs primarily from involvement in gymnastics, dancing, and track and field activities. It is caused by habitual movements of each activity creating muscular development imbalances that exceed the development of the bones of the hip themselves which causes hip instability and can lead to either complete hip dislocation or a snap or fracture of the head of the femur at the hip joint. Another more common malady in young athletes is the avulsion fracture, in which bone is literally torn from bone by the muscle, again caused by strengthening of the muscles and supporting tendons that exceeds the strength of the bones to which they are attached.
I know I got a little off topic at the end, especially since bilal92 is older than than those examples. However, as I almost decided on athletic training as my kines specialization I got to see a few too many pictures, videos, and actual cases of childhood injury caused by physical training. Overtraining, from both physical and psychological standpoints, in youth athletes has definitely been a growing concern in the sports science field over the past decade.
However, in pubescent youth, it is less likely for stunting to occur due to resistance training (though it is still a possibility), there is both annecdotal (the huge increase in high school to early college fitness training for competative sport) and research-based evidence that it is uncommon for stunted growth due to resistance training. Excessive bulking has a similar effect to that of prepubescent youth, however, it seems far less likely to have a large impact due to the fact that the primary growth spurts have usually already occurred and the secondary teenage have already began.
The larger culprit in teenage youth would be steroids (not sure about stuff like HGH though) which cause such a severe impact to the internal body chemistry that it can slow or stop height growth, among all of the other things it can cause.
Aside from the increased occurrence of reported joint injury earlier in a persons life (believed to be caused by the ever increasing competition at the junior high and high school level sports, there are also other medical conditions that can commonly arise due to physical training prepubescent (and sometimes pubescent) athletes. More common medical issues inlcude hip joint injuries such as Legg-Calve-Perthes Disease which generally occurs in children (normally boys) ages 4-10. While a direct cause has not been established this disease falls under a form of osteochondrosis believed to be caused by excessive wear on the hip joint, and can lead to the misshapen development of the head of the femur leading to further complications. In young girls, snapping hip phenomenon occurs primarily from involvement in gymnastics, dancing, and track and field activities. It is caused by habitual movements of each activity creating muscular development imbalances that exceed the development of the bones of the hip themselves which causes hip instability and can lead to either complete hip dislocation or a snap or fracture of the head of the femur at the hip joint. Another more common malady in young athletes is the avulsion fracture, in which bone is literally torn from bone by the muscle, again caused by strengthening of the muscles and supporting tendons that exceeds the strength of the bones to which they are attached.
I know I got a little off topic at the end, especially since bilal92 is older than than those examples. However, as I almost decided on athletic training as my kines specialization I got to see a few too many pictures, videos, and actual cases of childhood injury caused by physical training. Overtraining, from both physical and psychological standpoints, in youth athletes has definitely been a growing concern in the sports science field over the past decade.
I didn't realize that by "excessive bulking" you meant getting fat.
I think you're examples are a bit extreme. How did kids get like that? Maybe they had a coach who pushed them too hard? like you see in many of the eastern European countries when they train athletes from about the time they can walk, they get pushed beyond their limits, which can offcource cause injury. this is not what I'm talking about, and it's irrelevant to an average 15 year old who wants to bulk up in his spare time, IMO.
I think you're examples are a bit extreme. How did kids get like that? Maybe they had a coach who pushed them too hard? like you see in many of the eastern European countries when they train athletes from about the time they can walk, they get pushed beyond their limits, which can offcource cause injury. this is not what I'm talking about, and it's irrelevant to an average 15 year old who wants to bulk up in his spare time, IMO.