Episode #168: Programming During Injury Rehab (For Kids Too!)
Barbell Medicine Podcast
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Resistance Training Is Bad for Youth
We are still fighting this narrative that resistance training is bad for youth. The american academy of p datrics has a position statement on you resistent training, saying it is perfectly safe. We need to get over this hump and realize that it's not only safe, like the american theatrics academy ally goes as far as to say it should be an essential component of training. But for some reason we think it's ok to have a kid playin a socra tournament where your joint angular speeds are upwards of nine degrees per second, but were worried about them picking up a forty five pound weight because, oh god, his growth plates. I don't know who's breaking all their
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