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More damaging to kids: Youth football or XC running?
Posted on 6/27/16 at 11:56 am
Posted on 6/27/16 at 11:56 am
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Posted on 6/27/16 at 11:57 am to BigEdLSU
Neither?
Posted on 6/27/16 at 11:57 am to BigEdLSU
Context?
Posted on 6/27/16 at 11:59 am to MSMHater
Inner city youth football vs 10-15 miles a week
Posted on 6/27/16 at 12:00 pm to BigEdLSU
I did both in high school.
It's football by a country fricking mile.
It's football by a country fricking mile.
This post was edited on 6/27/16 at 12:01 pm
Posted on 6/27/16 at 12:01 pm to Dr RC
It's better than raising a pansy arse
Posted on 6/27/16 at 12:06 pm to BigEdLSU
As with anything it depends on a bunch of factors. You can absolutely run a kid into the ground, but you absolutely do not see the type of injuries short and long lasting that you see in a lot of other sports, esp football.
Posted on 6/27/16 at 12:07 pm to Dr RC
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I did both in high school.
It's football by a country fricking mile.
Same, and the answer is football. I was always playing with some sort of nagging injury in football (which is just the way it is really - if you aren't injured in some way that's because you are a pansy and don't get any minutes), took a couple of concussions, and I hurt my knee to the point that I had to wear an immobilizer for a month. I never injured any part of my body running cross country. I still run today, decades later, without any issues.
This post was edited on 6/27/16 at 12:09 pm
Posted on 6/27/16 at 12:07 pm to BigEdLSU
XC is in no way damaging unless you have an idiot coach pushing kids to do 60 miles/week with tons of hard intervals and tempos before they are physically developed to handle it.
Posted on 6/27/16 at 12:07 pm to BigEdLSU
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More damaging to kids: Youth football or XC running?
Questions like this is why we've got a generation of limp-wristed pussies hitting adulthood right now.
Posted on 6/27/16 at 12:07 pm to BigEdLSU
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10-15 miles a week
Is nothing, you are talking about 2-3 miles a day * 5 days.
How old are these kids you are talking about?
Come on biged, I thought you were a track guy.
This post was edited on 6/27/16 at 12:08 pm
Posted on 6/27/16 at 12:07 pm to BigEdLSU
Depends. A while back, I read that kids should stay away from serious XC running as the repeated impact could be hell on their developing joints. I don't know what the current science says, as I read that maybe ten years ago.
Posted on 6/27/16 at 12:11 pm to Darth_Vader
Explain. Do you think I'm raising a limp wristed kid?
Posted on 6/27/16 at 12:11 pm to BigEdLSU
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10-15 miles a week
We did that for wrestling in HS.
Cross country runners run way more than that, right?
Football is more damaging, of course. But also ALOT more fun.
Posted on 6/27/16 at 12:12 pm to BigEdLSU
The issue with youth football is that most parents that are coaches aren't qualified to coach. Injuries occur because of not teaching proper technique to tackle.
Posted on 6/27/16 at 12:12 pm to UGATiger26
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I read that kids should stay away from serious XC running as the repeated impact could be hell on their developing joints. I don't know what the current science says, as I read that maybe ten years ago.
Eh. Maybe if you are ultra-mega extreme about it. But I started running 5Ks and winning my age group in elementary school, kept running competitively at the state level until I was a senior in HS, and have kept running regularly since then for enjoyment and health benefits for decades. No injuries. It's like anything else, if you go nuts with it, it's bad for you, especially if you are young. So don't go nuts with it, especially when young, and you'll be fine.
Posted on 6/27/16 at 12:13 pm to UGATiger26
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Depends. A while back, I read that kids should stay away from serious XC running as the repeated impact could be hell on their developing joints. I don't know what the current science says, as I read that maybe ten years ago.
Depends on the type of workouts like someone else said. If you are keeping it age appropriate, equip the kids with proper shoes, stress good (good enough for the younger kids) and minimize concrete running, then there should not be an issue.
Posted on 6/27/16 at 12:13 pm to bigpetedatiga
I deal with fast twitch kids, I'm as ignorant as can be for slow twitch
Posted on 6/27/16 at 12:14 pm to The Hurricane
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The issue with youth football is that most parents that are coaches aren't qualified to coach. Injuries occur because of not teaching proper technique to tackle.
This, I try not to be that guy, but some of the shite I have seen go on at practices and games for these youth leagues is embarrassing.
Posted on 6/27/16 at 12:16 pm to UGATiger26
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Depends. A while back, I read that kids should stay away from serious XC running as the repeated impact could be hell on their developing joints. I don't know what the current science says, as I read that maybe ten years ago.
Ok, if all true, compare that to impact on the HEAD dozens of times a day to a developing brain.
Football, as much as love it, wrecks the body and mind.
Good thing most football stars are already dumb as a brick
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