Friday, September 28, 2012

Ohio State Buckeyes and dead lifting

My daughter Avery isn't 2 years old but she is already a big buckeye fan and knows how to dead lift.  People wonder why Ohio people love the Buckeyes so much but it is taught from such a young age, it just can't be helped.  People also wonder why Ohio has an extraordinary amount of great powerlifters, it's because our kids learn how to lift early.  So here is a video of my daughter wearing her scarlet and grey cheer outfit and doing some dead lifts.  Obviously she is too young to really lift any weight as she can't understand directions but it boggles my mind how parents are scared to let their kids lift any weights in a gym.  Yet these same parents don't think twice when their child is jumping out of a tree, carrying a laundry basket or even carrying around their backpack all day.  These everyday activities place far more stress on the spine than picking up a 10lb weight, yet for some reason their is a negative connotation around weights.  If I do nothing else in this life if I can turn around the illogical stigmatism's about lifting weights then I will have accomplished something very good.  Because proper weight training in young children instills essential motor patterns and improves nervous system function so that our children don't get hurt when they start with competitive sport.

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