Does Strength Training Stunt Growth? | Science Explained

Does Weight Training Stunt Growth? Strength Coach Dane Miller breaks down the science of weight training for youth athletes and children.
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0:00 Does Lifting Weights Stunt Growth?
4:15 Danger of Children's Sports
5:53 What does the Data say?
7:07 What are the Benefits?
9:40 What are the Risks?
11:28 What happens when Kids Lift Weights?
14:50 Does Lifting Weights Stunt Growth?

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[@schaef6o]

Nephew broke his growth plate when he was 6 he’s now 6’6” 330

[@inkcontracting1759]

Thank you for that explanation. I’m a father of 8 athletes. I’ve always been that dad under the impression of early lifting and the potential growth implications. We have changed that with my younger kids and the results have been amazing.

[@chsjenkins]

Damn bro 8!? Can you pull out of your driveway at least 😂

[@noflippingexcusesrei]

GREAT INSIGHTS as usual! Thank you for sharing Dane.

[@wfs2email373]

Dude is that your oldest demonstrating his excellent form and strength? WOW 💪 looking good!! Keep it up kid!! A fantastic video as well btw!

[@SallyAlexandriaAlexParakeets]

Excellent videos, Coach Dane Miller. Thanks for a great explanation. Happy holidays from our channel: Australian Parakeets Stars

[@michaelsprivateside3476]

Excellent video!

[@APBT-Bandog]

You were studying the impact on weight training and growth plate fractures, but you didn't look into how weight training impacts have on the endocrine system, which controls growth to begin with. How does it impact GH, IGF, T, E, cortisol, etc.

[@isaiasxd4453]

Excelent , mi nine years old son do the barbell complex every day and it was so good for his development

[@sanki7087]

Really helpful one

[@SevanStick]

14:59 (welcome).

[@hypersus8547]

FInallyyy

[@davidhoypt]

🔥🔥🔥🔥 thanks Coach

[@HuffTex]

Lot's of farm boys, over the year, who have been lifting feed sacks, carrying 5 gallon buckets of grain/milk, and throwing bales of hay should be proof that moving weight doesn't stunt growth.....

[@vensonj]

That’s not the same as weight lifting though….that’s actual movement…it’s all most like CrossFit training…I know I’m a farm boy my father never allowed me to lift weights I out grew everyone…6’4 265

[@davidhuffman145]

@@vensonj it is moving weight. The strongest kids around, pre-weight-training programs in school, were farm kids. Carrying 50 lb sacks of feed, and throwing even heavier balls of hay is strength training. In fact, it is functional strength training. You're loopy if you don't see the similarities.

[@vensonj]

@@davidhuffman145 the way most people lift weights isn’t functional that’s why they are all stiff…you literally agreed with me

[@davidhuffman145]

@@Me-pw9ld every farm boy I have ever met is 5'10" or better, and most North of 6'2."

[@denguefevah2727]

My parents is a farmer but they know more knowledge about growth and are more educated on biology. Even though both of my parents are a seafarer and a medical technician. Anything that you carry weights can stunt growth cuz the heavier it gets the more muscle tissue in your growth plate damages since kids or teenagers have opened growth plates. Its already been confirmed in the past. Kids with longer fingers and foot that is exactly proportional to their size have tall height genetics. Meanwhile a kid with shorter finger and shorter legs that isnt as proportional to their size are given short genetics. Even a kid like me who hasnt done weight training have shorter fingers and foot yet all of my sprinting excercise, sleep more than 12hrs,eat twice than i should,and stretching excercise normally that doesnt exceed 20min my head,neck,spine,shoulders,and legs are growing allot faster in just a month i can grow half an inch or even 2inch if i just got started routine. And im way taller than my friends who has been relying on height genes and been going to the gym since they were kids. I just went from 5,0 39kg to 5,9 62kg in just a year currently im 18 now not even my siblings could grow that much even though im allot shorter than them at 13 at the same age.

[@khaimapostol962]

Hi coach Dane! Have you ever thought about starting your own system and having other coaches be certified under your system? I think this is something that a lot of us would want in the future

[@maxogreenz]

I remember I started lifting when I was going into 8th grade. I was about 5’4 at the time. At 23, I stand around 5’9 (just over 5’9 in the morning). My dad is 6’2 and my mom is 5’4.5-5’5, my sister stands around 5’7”. What’s weird is I have grown since I was 18 by about 1.5”. I think my height has been mostly genetics, due to my grandpa on my mom’s side being about 5’7 (Eastern European). I think I was going to be in the 5’9 range anyway due to that being the average between my parents. It is what it is. Btw I wear a size 11 shoe and have a wingspan of 72 inches.

[@elmasbuscado909]

Your dad 6 2 you and him must be disapointed

[@sambsialia]

Dane. I see this RPR reset stuff. Says glute ham then erector should fire in that order. Wrong order means back injury. What do you think?

[@chriswise1232]

No mention of lifting increasing testosterone which increases E2 which seals epiphyseal plates.

[@CHOSEN0808]

I was told it stunts growth. But as long as I've been working out I Caan see a lot of thing it help me with starting at a younger age that most females and other kid my age didn't have

[@ishmari14]

🤦🏻‍♂️ the people in the comment section answering this (incorrectly) as if the title was a question. Meanwhile, you literally explained in the video (that they presumably did not watch) that the exact opposite is true.

[@marcusgarvey5876]

Yes

[@neilgregory9083]

The original research was on Welsh coal miner's children and who worked in the mines. It's a myth. We have the same issue here. What's critical is supervision by qualified and competent coaches.

[@gabriellloyd]

Could you link these studies for people to rad?

[@christistruth3112]

so if you hurt your back can the growrh of spine be harmed?

[@SirCharles913]

It's not weightlifting itself it's how heavy and intense you go. The more heavy and intense you go it causes the body to trigger an early production of testosterone leading to premature fusion of the growth plates and leading to an early growth spurt. In order for the body to keep up with the intensity it needs androgens. Meaning you do lose inches as a result.

[@jbf1734]

I've been wondering this for a while do you think it will stunt mine? I'm 15 and 5,8 I am a later bloomer so I think I can grow to 5,11 6 foot but I want to keep working out is it going to affect me?

[@SirCharles913]

@@jbf1734First of all I would go for an x-ray to see if your growth plates are still open if you can. It just depends on how long you've been training for and how heavy - intensive your doing your training and your genetics and your hormonal structure will be a factor. Watch your diet as well and make sure you eat well and don't neglect your meals. Feed your body with good nutrition.

[@jbf1734]

@@SirCharles913 I've been lifting for like 3 months but nothing rly too heavy max bench is like 130

[@SirCharles913]

@@jbf1734 You should be fine with that

[@yahnah9116]

Litteraly false. Estrogen closes the growth plates, not testosterone. Infact testosterone is neccesary for development of bones and also height, more of it doesnt make you shorter, it makes you taller. You are not "losing inches" by weight training. Please stop spreading false information and scaring teens into not weightlifting

[@christistruth3112]

what about growth of spine?

[@northeastcorals]

"Stunts your growth, shrinks your p*nis, all your muscle turns to fat if you stop training even for a brief period, if you're not careful you'll accidentally get far to big, men will want to fight you if you get muscular" are just some of the utter B.S things people who couldn't be arsed to train & had no idea of what they were talking about used to spout at me when I started lifting at the age of 13, thirty odd years ago.

[@puppygarcia9315]

Nah thats just them genetics

[@theknowledgeuniverse6648]

Hello sir!

[@King-O-Hell]

I'm 40 now and I'd hate to stunt my growth as I progress towards senior citizen

[@ozancanca9740]

Strength training might be safe, promote injury prevention etc. but still the increased load on the bone that creates the benefits on the first place, may work against the growth plates after a certain point of volume and intensity.

[@mikemoore2791]

Rewatch the video, or, alternatively... get lost.

[@TexicanMr]

Please share your opinion without watching the video.

[@aynrandfan7454]

Maybe it did for me im only 5’10 my dad is 6’2 and mom is 5’9 and cousins are 6’3 and 6’6 …but again I did a drastic diet in grade 9 to lose 30 lbs of fat in 3 months as well as running for one hour and lifting 6 days a week (without much proper training and resting) … I think nutrition and rest as well as genetics and injury prevention are more important to height than early weight lifting overall

[@quantashonjamaldigglerbury4934]

Sometimes genetic mutations and other factors in the womb can make a baby average height or even shorter height even if the parents/family are tall And vice versa Plus 5'10 isnt even that bad infact thats pretty tall for the rest of the world. Even in the US the average height is 5'9.5 so your slightly above average even in the west Its more likely you had shittier nutrition and shittier sleep/sleep quality and also the drastic diet and these all contributed to you being slightly shorter or you just got unlucky and got the wrong genes. You should get leg lengthening surgery,arm lengthening surgery and clavicle widening surgery then use an inversion table to decompress the spine you could add up to 6-10 inches doing this. The arm lengthening and clavicle widening is to balance out the proportions so you dont look goofy

[@Panda13572]

Yes it does! I put my kids into basketball and swimming to counter-act this! Edit: This is clearly a joke and there is no need to argue about this

[@GarageStrength]

I would strongly consider watching this video to the end.

[@Steve-qy8or]

No, it does not…there is plenty of data that proves this. The American Academy of Pediatrics advocates lifting weights.

[@nickknack2523]

It doesn’t. Some studies even show that it’s the opposite

[@Steve-qy8or]

@@nickknack2523 Appropriately designed resistance training programs have no apparent negative effect on linear growth, physeal health, or the cardiovascular system…American Academy of Pediatrics 2020 My masters in exercise physiology, my 2 strength and conditioning certifications and my 35 years of lifting and training tell me you are incorrect.

[@Panda13572]

r/woosh to all of you who didn't realise this is a joke

[@indiferrentnihilism1074]

Whos that kid at 0:26? Hard to believe a 13 year olds squatting more than me

[@justinbuonato4704]

Kyle Martin jr

[@ittaihershkovich3447]

Well what about the claim that the testosterone changes it makes can stunt growth/close the growth plates early?

[@mehdiheshmati4096]

Do you remember at what age your growth stopped?

[@OFFSHOREDOUG]

No. Been lifting since I was 7. Taking brewers yeast and cod liver oil. I'm 6ft 2 and got upto 280lbs. Puberty wise I was average so it's not if I was an early bloomer.

[@christistruth3112]

im.sure pressure in spine compressed my spine

[@Johnny_5528]

Weight training doesn't effect on growth my coach an throw athlete of 60's and now under him a total of 100-120 athletes had gone through but alot of 95% athletes have 6'1" plus height. IT DON'T EFFECT if proper guidance and good nutrition is given

[@andrewhall6695]

The children did not have spotters and the weights they were attempting was too much

[@rubenmendez3873]

Does not lifting help release growth hormones?

[@denguefevah2727]

Stretching release more growth hormone for bones to grow more room. Carrying weights on the other hand injures your muscle so their growth hormones just means recovering and build new muscle tissue instead of growing bones longer.

[@TexicanMr]

This myth will never go away because of all the jacked manlets.

[@pierrewayer4241]

Haha true story

[@marcorossi1148]

Yes, it stunt growth, i'm only between 5 foot 9.5 inches /5'10, i went to the gym from 15 to 17 years old and my brother is 6 foot 2,my sister is a good 5 foot 7, i regrate this every fucking day.

[@GarageStrength]

sounds like genetics...

[@marcorossi1148]

@@GarageStrength maybe,but from 13 to 15 years i was tallish and projected to be between 5 11 and 6 foot, my mom is 5 foot 5 and my dad is my same height but i have also tall grandparents, so if it was only genetics i had to be almost 5 11 or 6 foot

[@gallafia3771]

@@marcorossi1148 nah it's genetics. Height is not always consistent across siblings and the projected heights are just suggestions based on average data. I have a friend who is 6'3 and has a brother who is 5'5. Anything can happen. You were going to be 5'10 whether you lifted weights or not. It is what it is.

[@marcorossi1148]

@@gallafia3771 impossible your brother's friend is that small, do they have the same parents?

[@gallafia3771]

@@marcorossi1148 yeah dad's 6'4 mom is 5'2. I have another friend whose parents are both 5'4 and he is 5'10 his brother is 6'. Another friend's mom is 5'3, dad is 5'11, he is 5'5 and his brother is 5'9. There is sometimes a correlation with the parent height, but not always.

[@NoPrivateProperty]

Can anyone explain hairy palms?

[@hypersus8547]

There are no hair follicles on your palms unless you have an extremely rare genetic disorder called circumscribed hairy dysembryoplasia of palms. It happens if you ma*tu*b*te a lot

[@NoPrivateProperty]

@@hypersus8547 how much is a lot?

[@hypersus8547]

@@NoPrivateProperty more than 7 times a week

[@NoPrivateProperty]

@@hypersus8547 shit

[@hypersus8547]

@@NoPrivateProperty quit watching corn

[@lycagos1278]

yes, never put your kids into weight training...go see volley ball girls and see their legs...2 meter

[@BigTimeFishin]

C.d.c even says resistance training is safe.