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hi im 13 115 lbs and i have secretly doing pushups and other excercizes like that. i want to start using actual weights but im nervous about asking my parents. could anyone reccommend a way to ask them that would be comfortable for me and not too upfront for them?
thanks:)
 
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I'm not sure why you would be nervous, but you could try this ... Mom and Dad how do you feel about me starting a weight lifting program ? I think that would be a respectful way to ask.
 
Haha, secretly lol. I did my push ups and crunches in my room by my self at night so know one knew. Maybe ask them to get you a membership and then have someone walk you threw all the excersices? That way they wont be scared of you pulling something or dropping weights.
 
Try this:

"Mom and Dad, 40% of the kids my age are overweight and 15% are obese. Physical education in our schools has been cut back or eliminated all together. I want to stay healthy, and to do this I need to exercise. Weight training will not only increase my strength for any sports I want to pursue, but will boost my confidence and my self esteem all of which are important in my teen years and as I head into adulthood"

If you can say this without cracking up(although it is all true)you are golden.
 
:eek: Thank ya kindly.

I have an 11 year old daughter and a 14 year old son. It absolutely amazes me that my daughter only has phys. ed for half the year and only once a week. My son does not have it at all. When my son came up to me and asked if I could put together a strength training routine for him and show him the right way to do the exercises, I was thrilled.

He is a riot. He can now bench his own bodyweight (140 lbs) and is proud of his 'bicep vein' that sticks out when he is done with a nice slow set of curls. :D He wants to do javelin and shotput as a sophomore in the Spring. That'll be cool.

Gym classes in public schools are a joke. Last week my daughter was complaining that her neck hurt one morning after she had gym the previous day. I asked her what she did in gym.

"We did 100 sit ups" she said. And I said. "No, you probably did 100 crunches, nobody does sit ups anymore"

She showed me how the gym teacher showed them how to do it..hands laced behind the head, with your buddy holding your feet down. Holy crap!! I thought this went out around the Jurassic period. The whole 6th grade had stiff necks for a couple of days.

I come to find out that her gym teacher is also her social studies teacher. :rolleyes:

So, I volunteered to meet with the pseudo gym teacher to teach him some age appropriate exercises, and the correct way to do them, for his sixth graders
 
Not knowing you personally, that seems like a very noble and generous thing to do as a parent and a person. Good job pro!
 
SXIPro said:
Try this:

"Mom and Dad, 40% of the kids my age are overweight and 15% are obese. Physical education in our schools has been cut back or eliminated all together. I want to stay healthy, and to do this I need to exercise. Weight training will not only increase my strength for any sports I want to pursue, but will boost my confidence and my self esteem all of which are important in my teen years and as I head into adulthood"

If you can say this without cracking up(although it is all true)you are golden.
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Also add this to the end; "Kids that educate themselves about their bodies and exercise to maintain them, have a 90% less chance of doing drugs, smoking, or drinking."
 
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