You may have hired a trainer for your children and you have been surprised to see that in planning there are one or several strength work sessions. If the alarms have jumped you thinking that it is not suitable for young people at an early age to do strength work, These following lines interest you.

The first thing you should know is that it is not harmful to your health. The risks of injury are only justified for a bad training design, that neglects the maturation state and the level of the young woman). Following correct guidelines and under the supervision of a professional, Force training is not only considered a safe activity, but it can also contribute to a lower risk of injury during sports.

From a skeletal point of view, during adolescent puberty (at which time the young women acquire from 30 al 50% of the total bone mass) strength interventions have the incremental potential even more bone mass accumulation. This process is explained by hormonal factors (greater presence of testosterone/estrogen during physical activity) and mechanical factors (exercise stress favors the appearance of osteoblasts that contribute to bone creation).

From a muscle point of view, You should know that young women have the same or greater capacity to perform strength in relation to their weight as an adult. The age of between 1 y 2 years before maturation, It represents a unique window in which some mechanisms that favor strength gains reach its peak, being especially flattering in explosive force (performance factor in some sports and cycling modalities).

Therefore, strength work yes, In pre and pubertal ages to be this a single window during the development of these. Yes indeed, Always under guidelines and supervision of a professional.

And not, You will not grow less to do strength work. This responds to a myth process of misinformation and lack of studies. It has been possible to verify that the fact that in the modalities where the force is most worked (such as the different modalities of gymnastics) the athletes are lower, It responds to a natural selection process (lower teenagers have a weight advantage and therefore more chances of triumphing in sports) rather than a consequence of strength training in their training routines.