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    Hope guides me Senior Member Hosakawa Tito's Avatar
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    Children need the physical activity, but not the stress of over-competitiveness that can be prevalent in some youth leagues. Kids need to be allowed to be...kids, not Mom & Dad's little multimillionaire athelete in training. Some children have too much structured activities and it's like they're working full time jobs. For many it's not a healthy life style and they burn out/stress out. There's enough of that waiting for them in their adolescent and adult future years. A variety of unstructured creative play and activities is more desireable for the pre-teen age group, imo.

    I learned at an early age not to complain of boredom within my Father's hearing...he'd hand me shovel and tell me to dig a ditch or something.
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    Heh, mine ride a bike to school every day in all types of weather. Half an hour there, half an hour back. That's stamina taken care of.
    Ain't that the truth. My first taste of freedom was riding my bike (the first car came much later) anywhere and everywhere within a 10 mile radius of the house. From the fishing/swimming hole to the ice cream stand to a friends house in the next town. I rode that bike daily and it did me a lot of good.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hosakawa Tito View Post
    Ain't that the truth. My first taste of freedom was riding my bike (the first car came much later) anywhere and everywhere within a 10 mile radius of the house. From the fishing/swimming hole to the ice cream stand to a friends house in the next town. I rode that bike daily and it did me a lot of good.
    You lazy sods. I ran my 2km to school every day for 10 years, you people use a bike?

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    Oh, you're such an amateur. You just have to make sure that when you see a ten or eight year old of the right physique, you exercise them simultanously so that together they are a legal eighteen.
    "Bedre med to på sju som blør enn ei på fjorten som har gjort det før", as we say around here...

    ("better with two 7-year olds who bleed instead of one 14-year old who has been there before", doesn't rhyme well in english though)
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    Quote Originally Posted by HoreTore View Post
    You lazy sods. I ran my 2km to school every day for 10 years, you people use a bike?
    Luxury.

    Me, I had to walk four kilomters to school. Barefooted. Even in winter.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat View Post
    Luxury.

    Me, I had to walk four kilomters to school. Barefooted. Even in winter.
    You guys had schools? We had holes in the ground .. &cetera.
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    I started to learn how to lift wieghts when I was 3. Basic form and what not, nothing that could be called strength training. Mostly wanting to participate with my dad. Did Soccer from kindergarden till 6th grade. Judo from 8 till 10, while I was in soccer. Played American football from junior high till junior year of highschool, and switched over to savate/boxing de francias till nearly 19. Suffered my share of injuries, a dislocated shoulder very minor no ligiment damage, 6 broken ribs, a broken clavicle and spur's across most major striking surface, metacarpal's included. But that's about it, nothing very serious at all. And steadily drifting more and more to heavy bodybuilding.

    I don't see anything wrong with starting kids young. As long as it's light. Soccer being the most dangerious sport in the world but most parents don't see a problem starting their kids on it at 6 or 7. Proper strength training will never lead to stunted growth or serious injurries. One of the main reasons being if their lifting properly, they can't lift enough to hurt themselves.

    Fish oil by the way is a good send I would not lift competitively if it wernt for these pills helping my heart and joints.
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    I think I played soccer (or rather football) from the first grade, or maybe even kindergarten until sixth grade. I think that was a great age to start, but until third or even fourth grade it definitely wasn't really competitive.So I probably started playing sports around five or six, but didn't get competitive until maybe eight or nine, and even then it wasn't very competitive.
    Same here. It's only the parents that make it competitive, and rarely even then. I've helped coach soccer for 7-8 year olds, and they just wanted to have fun. It did me good when I was younger (physically), but as I got older (11) the athletics didn't help as much (don't mind the junk food).

    So now I play rugby
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