Diet And Weightloss

If you have a child 6 to 8 years old that wants to start exercising and lifting weight, you may find yourself wondering what you should do. While some think it is perfectly fine for children to exercise, there are others that think differently.

The long and short of it is that yes, it is beneficial for your child to partake in exercise or a weight training regimen although, there are a few things that you should keep in mind once this starts to happen.

No matter how you look at it, children aren’t miniature adults, consequently the same methods cannot be used for children who differ from adults emotionally, anatomically and physiologically.

Children’s immature skeletons don’t mature until they get 14 - 22 years of age. With girls, exercise during childhood can have very critical effects on bone health that can last for their entire lives.

Children are often vulnerable to growth related overuse injuries such as Osgood Schlatter disease. They have immature temperature regulating sytems due to their large surface area compared to their muscle mass which will cause them to be more susceptible to injury when they aren’t properly warmed up. Also, children don’t perspire as much as adults do, so they will be more susceptible to heat exhaustion as well as heat stroke. Due to their low muscle mass and immature hormone system, it makes it harder for them to develop strength and speed. Their breathing and heart response during exercise are also different from an adults, which will affect their capacity for exercise.

When you consider programs for children, first and foremost, you should obtain a medical clearance from your doctor.

The first approach to designing a program is to establish a range of 8 - 12 repetitions and keep the work load appropriate for the range. Ensure that workouts are spread out enough to have at least 1 -2 full days of rest between workouts. The main focus when working out should be on the form of every exercise performed with correct breathing and not on the amount of weight being lifted.

Make sure they warm up and stretch before starting weight training. Start your children off with light loads then then make adjustments accordingly. You should also make sure they drink plenty of water before, during and after exercise. Getting enough water is very important with exercise as it is very easy to get dehydrated - especially with children.

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Many people have long held the mistaken belief that everybody has a particular fat point where their body realizes that this is the level of fat that is normal to that particular person.

This is not true and we all develop our own fat point based on our lifestyles. While there are various different body types that are determined by our genes, the percentage of fat that we carry around in our body is not due to the genes that we have inherited. It is due to the food that we have been eating from the beginning of our life to the stage where we are at presently.

If you have been over eating for a long period of time and you have remained at a specific fat percentage for quite some time, then that becomes your new fat point. And that can change up or down according to the lifestyle that you choose to lead.

If you have remained at a particular fat point for a year or two, then your body will develop all the necessary requirements in the form of capillaries, connective tissues, hormonal levels and so on to support that point. You have determined what that point is and your body will now try to maintain the new level.

Your body will constantly monitor that new fat point by all the messages that are sent to the brain. If you were to go on a crash diet, your body would react to the fact that is sees this as an attack on that fat point and will do all it can to maintain what is believes is the correct balance. The maintenance can be in the form of a reduction in muscle tissue to save fat.

Unfortunately for many people, they don’t like to accept the fact that it is not their genes or anything else that has resulted in their fat point being too high.

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If you are willing to put in the extra effort, you can lose considerably more weight a lot faster by adding resistance training to your weight loss program.

Lifting weights will help to burn body fat quicker than aerobic exercise which is something that a lot of people don’t understand. Aerobic exercise for an hour or so will burn more calories than lifting weight for the same hour, however, weightlifting gives additional benefits after that hour that aerobic exercise doesn’t.

After resistance training, your muscles need to repair themselves and in doing so, this process burns even more calories consequently, you are getting the benefit of the calories that are burned during the exercise, combined with the calories that are getting burned as the muscles are getting repaired.

There is also another benefit that is obtained by weightlifting and resistance exercises and that is the fact that you will be building muscle mass.

Now many women get concerned thinking that they are going to look like a female version of Arnold Schwarzenegger (in his younger days), but not only is this unlikely without the use of steroids, it is impossible, particularly for a woman.

Muscle burns fat and by building up your muscle mass, you are creating a fat burning machine that will help to use up excess body fat throughout the day.

This is why people who supplement their weight loss programs with suitable resistance training, will reduce fat and get considerably better results in less time.

You also get the additional benefits of becoming fitter, improving your heart and bones and it also has a positive effect on your mental attitude. To some people,  just feeling better about themselves can solve a lot of the reasons why they overeat in the first place.

You don’t have to lift excessive weights for this to work as even light resistance training will be an added benefit to your weight loss program.

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