How Young Is Too Young for Kids to Lift Weights?
by Beth Skwarecki from Lifehacker on (#5NDEM)
We're used to seeing kids play team sports, like soccer and baseball, at a young age. And strength-based activities like climbing on monkey bars are time-honored childhood pastimes. But somehow, lifting weights looks wrong to many of us when kids are the ones doing it. But how young is too young to pick up a barbell?