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Now, two of the nation’s top strength training authorities, Avery Faigenbaum, and Wayne Westcott, provide up-to-date advice on designing age-specific strength training programs in their new book, Youth Strength Training (Human Kinetics, August 2009). "Because of variations in maturation, training age, and stress tolerance, youth strength training programs need to be prescribed and progressed carefully," says Faigenbaum. Youth Strength Training offers age-specific strength-training programs ...
Recent research confirms youth strength training significantly increases muscular strength and endurance in children and adolescents and there is absolutely no evidence that properly performed and appropriately supervised youth strength training results in stunted growth, bone growth plate damage, musculoskeletal injury, or pain. A paper recently published by the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology and co-authored by Dr. Avery Faigenbaum, author of Youth Strength Training, provides ...
Historically, physical educators have avoided strength training for children for many reasons—it didn’t work, it placed too much stress on growing muscles and bones, and it was too dangerous. However, Avery Faigenbaum and Wayne Westcott dispel these misconceptions in their book Youth Strength Training (2009), noting that "research has clearly demonstrated that strength exercise is a safe, effective, and efficient means for conditioning young muscles." Regular participation in a high-quality ...
