14yrs. old lifting?
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revodrew
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I work out with a 14 year old kid at my gym, he is taking cell-igf, ON and vitamins and has no sides to speak of. He weighs like 90lbs and is my height (5'9). I dont want to get him on some super high calorie or weight gainer but nothing seems to work. I just keep telling him that soon enough a spurt will come, and then the results will be soon to follow. Hope he doesnt get to depresed. He is a good kid, just skinny and weak as all hell.
Apowerz6
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ON meaning optimum nutrition whey or that fizogen ****? and whats cell igf? And why not a weight gainer, cyto gainer works quite well and its low dextrose equvalency on the malto makes it cool for the kcals, and has 58 grms of protein, and even more if taken with milk, have him drink that and he has no choice but to grow. With his metabolism if it is fast, should take that and use it quite well....
revodrew
Registered User
ON as in optimum, I dont anyone, no matter how old or whatever should take anything made by fizogen. Cell-IGF is some shitty knock off, creatine who claims to boost insulin levels, the gym owner talked the kids parents into buying it. I tried it and got only one thing, THE SHITS!!
brettly
New member
revo... good call
the bodies of adults and adolescents respond entirely different to training stimuli. whereas adults experience morphological adaptations ie. hypertrophy, adolescents typically experience mostly neurological adaptations and experience minimal hypertrophy, although there is some. there is research however that shows resistance training in adolescents and children is extremely beneficial, especially pertaining to muscle strength, performance, decrease in rehabilitation time from injuries, as well as an overall decrease in the likelihood of obtaining a sport injury to begin with.
you're right, this kid will grow eventually, from his growth spurt that will be hitting him in the near future i'd imagine.
it's cool to see young guys like that in the gym busting their ass. makes me wish i would have started a lot earlier.
the bodies of adults and adolescents respond entirely different to training stimuli. whereas adults experience morphological adaptations ie. hypertrophy, adolescents typically experience mostly neurological adaptations and experience minimal hypertrophy, although there is some. there is research however that shows resistance training in adolescents and children is extremely beneficial, especially pertaining to muscle strength, performance, decrease in rehabilitation time from injuries, as well as an overall decrease in the likelihood of obtaining a sport injury to begin with.
you're right, this kid will grow eventually, from his growth spurt that will be hitting him in the near future i'd imagine.
it's cool to see young guys like that in the gym busting their ass. makes me wish i would have started a lot earlier.
Bean
Ectomorph man
Man, at 14 I was prolly 90-100lbs too
Ive always had a good feeling that starting out young creates a great foundation for training; and your body also "grows into itself" if that makes any sense. You can tell when someone worked out as a kid. I think part of the problem of me being so skinny is because I didnt do much physical activity other than soccer.
Ive always had a good feeling that starting out young creates a great foundation for training; and your body also "grows into itself" if that makes any sense. You can tell when someone worked out as a kid. I think part of the problem of me being so skinny is because I didnt do much physical activity other than soccer.