hey what's up everyone morey croson here and today we're going to be talking about
how strength training promotes growth and we'll start the video right now
so like many people in this industry we're constantly getting asked if strength training or
resistance training ends up stunting your growth and there's a ton of research out there now that
shows that it does not center growth right there's no real correlation between you know weight
lifting strength training with anything that ends up studying your growth and really the primary
reason why is because when it comes to stunting your growth the way that that ends up happening
is there has to be some type of fracture within the growth plates and you know typically where
that's going to end up happening are going to be like the long bones right it's going to be
like your humerus your femur um you know that you can end up having some issues within your
spine and that's where you know i am very careful i know in my own individual you know training
and how i set it up with you know athletes i'm never really pushing a large amount of weight
with younger athletes when it comes to you know squats deadlifts good mornings you know things
like that that are going to end up putting a lot of pressure on the back i'm not really you know
pushing a lot of weights on those it's much more about form and technique and because of that i
actually think that by doing strength training you're actually promoting growth right because
there's been a lot of research that also shows that you know doing things like swimming sprinting
you know low impact plyometrics those are all things that are going to end up promoting growth
because it one it makes it so your body just creates more testosterone more hgh so it actually
makes it so your body creates more growth hormone right so your body is going to be able to grow
because there's actually more generation of growth hormone because it has to respond to the training
that's how our bodies you know evolutionarily that's how we're set up we have to respond
to the outside world and so if we are overcoming resistance overcoming strength now our body's
going to be able to respond to be able to optimize that so you know a lot of times it
ends up promoting your ability to grow and i have countless athletes that i've worked with within
that the 10 to 14 year old range that when i start working with them they start to actually get
taller they start to actually put on more weight put on more size and you know it's a combination
of a few different things again you know you're responding to the training another thing is you're
more hungry right you are putting out more on a consistent basis when you're training hard
working hard so now when you get home you're hungry you're ready to eat you want to eat
before you want to after you want to see results from your actual training and so you know to me
you want to be training and again going back into like sprinting right sprinting is something that
is you know you don't have any real resistance you're overcoming your own body weight there
but it has such a huge impact on your ability to grow if you can generate
a lot of force on each one of your steps and understand how your body can efficiently go
through the running cycle it's going to make it so you end up promoting growth over a prolonged
period of time another thing working on your posture right so when it ends up going to
what is causing people to stunt their growth it goes into how the compression of the spine
limits your ability to you know grow to get taller so what causes your spine to compress quarterback
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watching sitting down for long periods of time playing video games right you know not having a
good posture holding a backpack for long period times those are the things that end up really
causing you to slouch over and lose any potential growth so in order to actually negate that or
fight against that it's actually better to be able to have some type of strength training
to be able to work on your posture work on how you're standing work on being able to create
decompression within the spine so you know doing pull-ups and hanging is as shown to be able to
uh help you in growing uh again working on your posture right i like to do weighted carries where
you have weights in your hands and you're you know walking or just standing and reaching and really
working on being able to decompress the spine running low level plyo these are all things that
will actually help promote long bone growth which is exactly what you need in order to get taller so
this whole myth that you know by strength training or weight training you're going to end up you know
losing any type of size is exactly that it's a myth and really it's brought out by you know
ineffective weight training right so anything that has shown that you know there's weight lifting
that is caused somebody to lose their ability to get taller is because they were doing some type of
workout incorrectly right so if you load the bar too much too early with not good technique then
undoubtedly you can end up hurting yourself but that's just not the way that most trainers are
gonna go about this right i'm doing this really for all trainers out there you know like believe
in the people that are in your area or at least do your research into the people that are in your
area don't just go and say oh yeah you know here work with my 12 year old kid and not know what
their credentials are and their understanding of the body is so you know you want to take
some degree of accountability here but at the same time you want to understand that like if you are
working with the right type of trainer here you're actually going to help promote long bone growth
with your kids and make it so they'll actually get taller right again i've seen a lot of people
get taller by us working on their sprinting i was working on their you know technique i do mostly
free weights you know holding dumbbells and doing lunges and and rearfoot elevates split squats and
you know working on your landing using the raptor uh and those types of things are gonna make it so
you get taller you get bigger you get faster you end up being an overall better athlete and that's
really what you want to put a priority on and you know that's where working out early is going to
really give you a differentiation with the people that are not doing anything right and just kind of
hoping that by just some type of genetic gift you end up getting you know tall fast strong
everything like that where the people that are you know taking the action and actually working
out on a consistent basis are gonna be able to take more control of their future and are gonna
really be able to make a long-term improvement within their body so that's why within you know
our quarterback program our speed program we're not really about loading the bar with a ton of
weights we're not really about doing you know a bunch of squats a bunch of deadlifts things
like that it's about improving the muscles that we're going to be utilizing and improving your
stretching improving your range of motion that's another big thing right if your muscles are tight
if your muscles are stiff they're going to limit how much you can stretch expand grow okay we want
to improve your stretching we want to increase your eccentric capabilities within your muscles
how well your you can control your muscles can to stretch we want to be able to load your muscles to
make it so you have some degree of you know small muscle tears that promote the muscle growth right
that's something that's normal that happens is when you're working out you're tearing you're
getting small micro tears within the muscles which then makes it so your body is able to repair them
and that's what makes it so you grow that's what creates the hgh which creates the testosterone
within the body and so you want to promote that and really the earlier you have that the better
you're going to respond to training for the rest of your life so when you start when you're 8 9 10
years old it actually makes it so now you're set up to be able to respond really well to training
forever and so i highly recommend you guys getting started with some type of strength training and i
said strength training specifically because that can be body weight right that could be push-ups
that could be you know body weight lunges body weight squats uh you know different there's a
wide variety of different types of push-ups dips pull-ups things like that that's all
really strength training you know once you start adding weight to it now it it creates
a different level of you know understanding of the body and how you're actually doing it but
just going through the fundamentals and the technique is going to be a hugely valuable thing
for any type of athlete to be able to do in order to promote growth so this is not something that
is going to end up limiting your ability to grow it's actually going to make you taller
make you stronger make you faster and make it so over a prolonged period of time your lifetime
you're actually going to be better set up to stay in better shape and to be in a better overall
condition when you start earlier because your body's going to adapt and start to learn how to
respond to training better so again i highly recommend you guys do strength training i we do
have programs that you could obviously get into we improve speed you know jumping ability uh throwing
ability upper body strength all that is going to be included within our programs you can go ahead
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you will actually absolutely see improvement when it comes to their their growth their size
everything like that so thanks for watching and we'll talk to you soon