Question about Weight Training & Height Growth?

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dany1

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hello

i am 16 yr old male weighing 210 lbs down from 235 lbs before and standing 5'9 tall
i have lost some weight from dieting and exercising, and was just thinking about starting weight training in next week
i have heard from people that by weight training & body building you stop growing your height
i have history of not growing height at some time while other time i grew very fast
since last year i have only grown 1 inch taller
The question is am i putting my height in jeopardy by weight training?
i have found a very long but great article about growing height here it is:
according to this article, would it be possible to reach higher height by performing the excercises in the article? i am not sure
or is height only related to genetic and no other force can grow it?
my goal was to lose weight and gain more muscular mass until the comming june
but with this height growth, gaining muscular mass seems impossible since i really dont wanna lose the little height i would grow without weight training
does anyone have any advice as what to do?
or how much weight lifting is enough without putting my height in jeopardy!
or is my age not the right age for bodybuilding since it would affect my height and first i should le my body grow as tall as it will untill i am 19 and then start bodybuilding
i see some of my friends doing weight training
please advice me if i should start bodybuilding or not?
my dream height would be 6'2 but if i come till 6 i would be more then happy
according to the article, weighting more then average is not good since it would put pressure on bones therefore a slow height growth



also if someone can find a diet (please tell me the location) for losing fat thought diet and cardio excercise and gaining muscles through weight training (i planned for this , but the height thing just ruined my plan since i dont wanna lose any further height growth)
i am sure there will be some but i searched for it and the sites were requiring me to pay from visa
i cant understand how to lose fat as it requires you not to eat for the fat to be used and building muscle mass requires you to eat alot especially protein
if there's enough protein in the body would'nt it use it for energy as oppose to fat resulting in fat staying where it is?
i know more muscles burns calories resulting in fat loss but is this enought or at same rate as from depriving the body with less caloric intake resulting in fat loss
just asking between those two which is better?

i appreciate your help in reading my post and hopefully repling to it! Thanks in advance
 
dany said:
hello

i am 16 yr old male weighing 210 lbs down from 235 lbs before and standing 5'9 tall
i have lost some weight from dieting and exercising, and was just thinking about starting weight training in next week
i have heard from people that by weight training & body building you stop growing your height
i have history of not growing height at some time while other time i grew very fast
since last year i have only grown 1 inch taller
The question is am i putting my height in jeopardy by weight training?
i have found a very long but great article about growing height here it is:
according to this article, would it be possible to reach higher height by performing the excercises in the article? i am not sure
or is height only related to genetic and no other force can grow it?
my goal was to lose weight and gain more muscular mass until the comming june
but with this height growth, gaining muscular mass seems impossible since i really dont wanna lose the little height i would grow without weight training
does anyone have any advice as what to do?
or how much weight lifting is enough without putting my height in jeopardy!
or is my age not the right age for bodybuilding since it would affect my height and first i should le my body grow as tall as it will untill i am 19 and then start bodybuilding
i see some of my friends doing weight training
please advice me if i should start bodybuilding or not?
my dream height would be 6'2 but if i come till 6 i would be more then happy
according to the article, weighting more then average is not good since it would put pressure on bones therefore a slow height growth



also if someone can find a diet (please tell me the location) for losing fat thought diet and cardio excercise and gaining muscles through weight training (i planned for this , but the height thing just ruined my plan since i dont wanna lose any further height growth)
i am sure there will be some but i searched for it and the sites were requiring me to pay from visa
i cant understand how to lose fat as it requires you not to eat for the fat to be used and building muscle mass requires you to eat alot especially protein
if there's enough protein in the body would'nt it use it for energy as oppose to fat resulting in fat staying where it is?
i know more muscles burns calories resulting in fat loss but is this enought or at same rate as from depriving the body with less caloric intake resulting in fat loss
just asking between those two which is better?

i appreciate your help in reading my post and hopefully repling to it! Thanks in advance
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You will not make yourself taller, or shorter, by performing resistance training exersizes with free weights, machines, stuffed animals, ect.
 
but i heard that if youre a growing youth (like me) and you do weight training, then you lose a little height that you might have grown without weight traing! is this statement true or what? please inform me

also in the article it refers that if you are overweight,it adds pressure to the backbone resulting in a height loss. BUT if you have abdomenal and back muscle it might support your upperbody weight. so is this a "yes" from the article that you may do weight training exercises.

i am REALLY WORRIED about losing height if i do weight training. and not doing them is like ruining my important plans and goals

in weight training would i be putting the pressure on my bones thus resulting in a height loss

please help me by replying! your help is very apprciated





also if someone can tell me a diet thats for an overweight trying to become a bodybuilder (just a amateur one :D ). I do have a gym membership

thanks for your help
 
Dany:

The cautions posted about weight training apply to kids that are much younger than you. A child can safely begin to work with weights, at high reps, around 12 years old (give or take). You're bones aren't going to shrink, you're spine isn't going to collapse.

It appears that you have this image that if you weight lift you'll shrink 6 inches. Here's news for you, the average person loses around a half an inch of height just being awake because the vertbrae compress, and then decompress while sleeping.

Just hit the gym and do your workout, and while you're there look around...everyone is there, short, fat, tall, skinny and everything in between.
 
I myself am 17 and just begun weight lifting too Dany. Im told that itll halt my growth, but others say thats just a wives tale. I guess Adler is right, you see people working out at the gym and theyre not all midgets or anything - but people of many sizes.

But then again Adler, perhaps the short ones at the gym are the ones who started weight lifting early heh.

I think it would be cool for more people to reply to this so we can finally come to the conclusion as to whether its a wives tale or a fact.
 
Read myth 7 on this page.




There is a question posed about halfway down the page, a young kid asks if weight training will affect height.
 
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