Im 14 and i was wondering how i should lift weights?

Question

I read in an article that prepubescent boys should lift high reps and small weight but my baseball coaches have been telling us we need to get stronger. Should i lift more weight less reps of less weight more reps? I am 5'10'' 130 and i have had many changes in my body. I wouldnt consider myself prepubescent, could any medical staff help me make this decision?

i use very good form and i do cardio for my heart. I need to get stronger and i dont want to lift for endurance.

i have been lifting weights for anbout 4 months and i was just wonderin if i should change to low weight high reps cause i lift high weight low reps. i lift about 75% of my max for about 8-10 reps, is that good?

Answer 1

Lower weights and more reps is good. It's not really the amount of weight that matters. It's how you do it. Do it slow, in good form, and for as long as you can. Also, if you do it like this, it will work out your heart more.

Answer 2

First of all. You can get stronger by using lower weight and higher reps. You don't want to go with more than 15 reps. The growth stunting thing is if you start to power-lift and such. I suggest lifting, but lifting moderate. By this I mean 8 - 12 reps. Pyramid the weights up. Be leery of your coaches (mine lead me wrong for years), but you should really be emailing muscle and fitness or some such magazine. You can get good workouts as well as good advice from people that know their physiology, and have tested their theory's.

Answer 3

The very best body building programme is simply using your own body weight. You only need to learn how to do proper push ups from the floor, which will build up your chest/arms/shoulder all at the sametime.

For your legs? You can hold onto a chair whilst you are standing and bend down (squat) and then stand up. You do'nt have to go all the way down, you could put far too much strain on your knee joints doing that, but keep your back straight and simply squat low enough and then stand.

Take it easy, start slow and work up to more repititions. Why the need to go lift weights, when your own body is the best way to go, especially at your young age.

Make sure also you are consuming enough healthy protein and fat in your diet, which provides raw material for the body to repair and build tissue (including muscle), plus gives more energy to the body than anything.

Things like eggs, meat (with the fat on it), butter, lard, extra virgin olive oil, organic coconut oil etc. Eating raw nuts, having limited fruit and grain (they are high in carbohydrates and you do not need to consume much of them), and of course eating vegetables and having normal full fat healthy plain sugar free yoghurt (acidophilus).

Take a good cod liver oil supplement (about a teaspoon a day). This provides your body with healthy vitamin A and D, plus omega 3. This helps the bones as well.

Keep the junkfood if you can to a minimum.

Your body will build up from all those things. Watch the cod liver oil in the summer time, as you may get too much vitamin D from it if you are in the sun alot.

Answer 4

If you would like to stop growing then yes!