Weightlifting for Kids

by El-Hewie, Mohamed F.; Smorenburg, Sjaak

• ISBN13: 9781453794364
• ISBN10: 1453794360
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-08-15
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub

Summary

This book is aimed at educating and preparing children of the ages 6 to 12 in the basics ofOlympic Weightlifting and Strength Training. The book familiarizes teachers, parents,and kids with the fundamentals of lifting and resistance training. The book starts byexplaining how muscles work by burning energy and moving the nutrients around thebody organs. Young children need to be educated on the process of transport of energyfrom food to cells allover the body. They then will understand how strength-traininghelps the body grow and stay healthy and fit.Resistance exercise is defined as the effort to stimulate muscles to grow and adapt tolifting. The strong muscles stimulate the bones to deposit minerals and remain strong.Strong muscles and bones help the individual to maintain high level of health and fitness.Weightlifting is introduced by warming up without weights, which is followed by liftinglight plates as an intermediary transition to serious lifting. The reader is introduced to theequipments and terminology of Weightlifting that should assist him/her to decipher thearcane language of strength-training.The book's main theme evolves on how to offer children the option of becoming OlympicWeightlifters when they are young enough to accomplish such an extraordinary goal. Thebook's main tools are the simplicity and rigorousness of exercising for BIG IDEAS.Unless the workout plan was simple and logical, it would not lead to the life-longcommitment to exercise, health, and fitness. The authors advocate the role of managingand executing exercise planning as a life-long endeavor of positive accomplishments andenriching the child's life.