Can Kids Do Starting Strength? 

You don't 'control' your kids....

@@Kyleforthe3SIKE whatever you virgin

@@Kyleforthe3SIKE If you are a good parent you do.

​@Kyleforthe3SIKE yes you do. They're children and they don't have the authority or maturity to make serious decisions all by themselves. I insist my children come to athletics club. Sometimes they grumble and say they want to stay and play Xbox but then, once they're there, they are running really well and enjoying the time with their team mates. It's this attitude of letting kids run their own lives which leads to them going out in the streets getting stabbed and doing drugs.

The issue really is that it starts to get tough and they just don't want to push their body so hard. That's fine, it's their life to do as they choose. All you can do is offer advice and support them.

It helps I think if you can show the benefits of weight training in the real world. Like the deadlift is a perfect example of lifting a heavy bag of shopping from the floor. Overhead press is how you would lift a box onto a high shelf. The stronger you are at these lifts the easier it is to do these daily activities. You'd be surprised at how people just wouldn't have thought like that. I used to sell computers and people would ask questions about components because they literally knew nothing. When I explained that the hard drive was like a storage cabinet and RAM was like having a bigger desk to fit more work on and the processor was literally the brains then you could see the little light bulb in their head switch on. If you can translate activities into the real world people just become much less intimidated by it. All of these weightlifting moves are moves you use in day to day life and doing them makes your day-to-day day life much easier.