Is weightlifting not good for your height?

I am 13 years old and want to go the gym for weightlifting but my parents say that it will slow your growing down.|||yes weightlifting will make you short because too much weight will compress your bones instead of stretching it. If you will eat too much because of tiredness you will become fat and short. I prefer hat you will just jog and have a balanced diet. Just wait until you are in 18 years old or above...





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only if you drop it!


m you're not recommended to start any real weight-lifting training until you are 16 n the Australian Institute of Sport


and my sport science teacher said once that if you can't lift something more than ten times it can and will damage your ligaments,


so i wouldn't recommend starting until you are a few years older,


and even then only with a weight you are comfortable with|||Yeah, I wouldn't overdo the weightlifting. I find its important to balance weight training with stretching and other limbering exercises. That way you are working your tendons and muscles, as well as your flexibility and agility (which promotes growth in adolescents). Also, I would wait a couple of years before any heavy lifting. Really, you can get a ripped body, using nothing more than your own weight. Try some knuckle push ups (vertical with body) and tiger presses. That will totally rip your chest and arms.|||No, it doesn't slow your growing. But it can overburden your muscles and skeleton if you do too much too soon. At 13 you are in a hurry to get your body to mature. You can remember being treated "like a kid" and you want to be treated like an adult.


So do some light weights and jump rope and swim. The muscles will appear on their own. You can tell where your body is headed by looking at your dad and uncles and grandfathers. |||haha i have been through that too. 13 is wayy to young for gym. u can do a LOT of stuff at home to gain muscle though.





push ups, sit ups, crunches, squats, lunges


all of those simple things if done enough on daily basis they will help lotss!!


trust me





and dumbels





i am 14 right


and weighed 45kg but then month ago parents got me 4kg dumbel


just been lifting it about 20 times, rest 25 times rest then ive been working way up





in last month i have put on 5 kg!!





and yes weightlifting is very bad for your height








notice how most of professional weightlifters are tiny..





|||I think that what did your parents say is right because you only 13 years old but you have already weightlifting.It will make you growth slow down because the thing that you lifting is heavier than you.I don't know if is not good for health but as I know it not suitable for age like you....|||I think so. I had a classmate who weightlifts/ed and he was kind of short.