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An article in the journal from the American College of Sports Medicine shows that just four weeks of hard exercise in growing animals increases bone mass. That means that children who start training while they are still growing will have a great advantage over athletes who start training after puberty.

Turkey’s Naim Suleymanoglu is the greatest weightlifter who ever lived, has won three Olympic championship. He started lifting weights when he was eight in Bulgaria. In most sports the strongest athlete wins. Muscles can only grow to be as strong as the strength of the bones on which they attach. People with the biggest bones are the ones who can grow the biggest muscles. People who start lifting weights when they are young will have the biggest bones and therefore the capability to grow the largest muscles. However, all children in weight-lifting programs should be supervised and should not lift weights that are heavier than they can lift 10 times in a row without shaking or losing form.

Why then does a Committee of the American Academy of pediatrics recommend against young children training for competitive sports, even though there is no evidence that young children are more likely than adults to injure themselves?

There is no data to show that hard exercise damages growth centers in bones to interfere with growth. There is no evidence that growing larger muscles stunts growth. However, there is great concern that some children will be subjected to abusive coaches and inconsiderate parents who place athletic training above the child’s own wishes and desires. In one study from Southern California, 90 percent of female cross country runners under age nine stopped running before they reached high school. The concern about serious athletic training for young children is more mental than physical. Children should not begin serious athletic training unless they want to do it, that they take days off from training regularly and when they want to, and that their coaches and parents allow them to be children. As far as their bodies are concerned, young children can start training at a very young age for athletic competition, but as far as their minds are concerned, they should not train before they are ready to accept the regimented lifestyle required for athletic competition.

Dr. Gabe Mirkin has been a radio talk show host for 25 years and practicing physician for more than 40 years; he is board certified in four specialties, including sports medicine. Read or listen to hundreds of his fitness and health reports at http://www.DrMirkin.com

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An article in the journal from the American College of Sports Medicine shows that just four weeks of hard exercise in growing animals increases bone mass. That means that children who start training while they are still growing will have a great advantage over athletes who start training after puberty.

Turkey’s Naim Suleymanoglu is the greatest weightlifter who ever lived, has won three Olympic championship. He started lifting weights when he was eight in Bulgaria. In most sports the strongest athlete wins. Muscles can only grow to be as strong as the strength of the bones on which they attach. People with the biggest bones are the ones who can grow the biggest muscles. People who start lifting weights when they are young will have the biggest bones and therefore the capability to grow the largest muscles. However, all children in weight-lifting programs should be supervised and should not lift weights that are heavier than they can lift 10 times in a row without shaking or losing form.

Why then does a Committee of the American Academy of pediatrics recommend against young children training for competitive sports, even though there is no evidence that young children are more likely than adults to injure themselves?

There is no data to show that hard exercise damages growth centers in bones to interfere with growth. There is no evidence that growing larger muscles stunts growth. However, there is great concern that some children will be subjected to abusive coaches and inconsiderate parents who place athletic training above the child’s own wishes and desires. In one study from Southern California, 90 percent of female cross country runners under age nine stopped running before they reached high school. The concern about serious athletic training for young children is more mental than physical. Children should not begin serious athletic training unless they want to do it, that they take days off from training regularly and when they want to, and that their coaches and parents allow them to be children. As far as their bodies are concerned, young children can start training at a very young age for athletic competition, but as far as their minds are concerned, they should not train before they are ready to accept the regimented lifestyle required for athletic competition.

Dr. Gabe Mirkin has been a radio talk show host for 25 years and practicing physician for more than 40 years; he is board certified in four specialties, including sports medicine. Read or listen to hundreds of his fitness and health reports at http://www.DrMirkin.com

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Pablo Cassals, Nadia Boulanger, Arturo Toscanini, and Leopold Stokowski all conducted major orchestras into their nineties. Walter Damrosch, Arthur Fiedler, and Serge Kousevitsky conducted into their eighties. Nobody knows why many orchestra conductors live longer than people in other professions, but the very act of conducting may be the reason.

Your heart is a muscle. To strengthen any muscle, you have to exercise it against increasing resistance. When you swing your arms, your arm muscles contract and squeeze the veins near them to pump extra blood toward the heart. When your arm muscles relax, they allow blood to fill the veins near them. This alternate contracting and relaxing of the arm muscles pumps extra blood toward the heart. Your heart then must contract against a greater amount of blood inside its chambers, so it does this with a faster beat and with more force, and this makes the heart muscle stronger.

To strengthen your heart, you have to exercise vigorously enough to increase your pulse rate at least 20 beats a minute above your resting pulse rate. Conducting an orchestra can drive your pulse rate over a hundred beats a minute. You conduct with your arms and during exercise, arm muscles require extra blood to supply them with oxygen. Your heart has to work two and a half times as hard to pump blood through your arms as it does to pump the same amount of blood through your legs. The blood vessels in your arms are smaller and offer a greater resistance against the flow of blood. The odds are that you will never conduct a major orchestra, but you can turn on the radio, pick up a stick, wave your arms around and become fit. Try to work up to the point where you can conduct for thirty minutes three times a week. This is a good activity for cross training with another sport that stresses primarily your leg muscles, such as walking, running, dancing or pedaling a bicycle.

Dr. Gabe Mirkin has been a radio talk show host for 25 years and practicing physician for more than 40 years; he is board certified in four specialties, including sports medicine. Read or listen to hundreds of his fitness and health reports at http://www.DrMirkin.com

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Pablo Cassals, Nadia Boulanger, Arturo Toscanini, and Leopold Stokowski all conducted major orchestras into their nineties. Walter Damrosch, Arthur Fiedler, and Serge Kousevitsky conducted into their eighties. Nobody knows why many orchestra conductors live longer than people in other professions, but the very act of conducting may be the reason.

Your heart is a muscle. To strengthen any muscle, you have to exercise it against increasing resistance. When you swing your arms, your arm muscles contract and squeeze the veins near them to pump extra blood toward the heart. When your arm muscles relax, they allow blood to fill the veins near them. This alternate contracting and relaxing of the arm muscles pumps extra blood toward the heart. Your heart then must contract against a greater amount of blood inside its chambers, so it does this with a faster beat and with more force, and this makes the heart muscle stronger.

To strengthen your heart, you have to exercise vigorously enough to increase your pulse rate at least 20 beats a minute above your resting pulse rate. Conducting an orchestra can drive your pulse rate over a hundred beats a minute. You conduct with your arms and during exercise, arm muscles require extra blood to supply them with oxygen. Your heart has to work two and a half times as hard to pump blood through your arms as it does to pump the same amount of blood through your legs. The blood vessels in your arms are smaller and offer a greater resistance against the flow of blood. The odds are that you will never conduct a major orchestra, but you can turn on the radio, pick up a stick, wave your arms around and become fit. Try to work up to the point where you can conduct for thirty minutes three times a week. This is a good activity for cross training with another sport that stresses primarily your leg muscles, such as walking, running, dancing or pedaling a bicycle.

Dr. Gabe Mirkin has been a radio talk show host for 25 years and practicing physician for more than 40 years; he is board certified in four specialties, including sports medicine. Read or listen to hundreds of his fitness and health reports at http://www.DrMirkin.com

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