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Is Ten too young to start doing very light lifting?
Posted on 9/15/25 at 5:41 pm
Posted on 9/15/25 at 5:41 pm
Grandson is starting to slowly put on too much weight. and I'm worried about him. He doesn't like protein much, and pretty much refuses to eat any kind of meat.
I was going to get him to start doing some light power band and free weights.
I'm also hoping that if he starts putting on a little muscle, that his appetite for Protein will increase and he'll eat less carbs and junk food.
But, he's young and I wonder if he can even put on enough muscle from working out at that age to make it worthwhile.
I'd hate to start him on something that gets no results, as he might not want get back into it when he gets older.
I was going to get him to start doing some light power band and free weights.
I'm also hoping that if he starts putting on a little muscle, that his appetite for Protein will increase and he'll eat less carbs and junk food.
But, he's young and I wonder if he can even put on enough muscle from working out at that age to make it worthwhile.
I'd hate to start him on something that gets no results, as he might not want get back into it when he gets older.
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Posted on 9/15/25 at 6:39 pm to TigerGman
quote:
Is Ten too young to start doing very light lifting?
It's not too young. I would start with the basics and start with bodyweight. Push Ups, Squats, etc... Get a good base. Then start with weight training. He's young and this is the moment in time he will be developing his mechanics.
Look in the "Help w/ Weight Routine for 46m and 13m" thread a few threads down from this. Lots of good info in there.
Posted on 9/15/25 at 6:50 pm to TigerGman
Who the frick downvotes the OP like that? This place fricking sucks sometimes.
Fake talk: his parents are failures. You need to take custody of the child immediately and get him on a regimen before he starts thinking he's a she and playing with barbies.
Replace his meals with Premier Protein shakes, entirely. Add some fiber powder though or else his bowels will clog and you'll have to pay to have him fixed.
Get him started on PPSA grasshopper immediately. Push him hard on day 0 when you're testing him for his 1RPs. Make sure he starts and ends every workouts with at least 30 on the treadmill to burn that fat off of him.
Take him every Saturday to your local weight management / obesity clinic as well to just sit outside and watch the fatty's walk in and out and ask him if he wants to be like them.
Real talk: find a good tasting protein drink line Premier Protein and see if you can get him to drink one a day. At his age though, just get him to move more. Find physical activities he gets into and lean into that.
He's certainly old enough to lift weights. Get him some dumbbells and kettlebells and get him moving with them, even if it's not "normal" exercises. Just get him moving. If he likes it, move on to a squat rack, bar, and some plates and start teaching him oly lifts.
Fake talk: his parents are failures. You need to take custody of the child immediately and get him on a regimen before he starts thinking he's a she and playing with barbies.
Replace his meals with Premier Protein shakes, entirely. Add some fiber powder though or else his bowels will clog and you'll have to pay to have him fixed.
Get him started on PPSA grasshopper immediately. Push him hard on day 0 when you're testing him for his 1RPs. Make sure he starts and ends every workouts with at least 30 on the treadmill to burn that fat off of him.
Take him every Saturday to your local weight management / obesity clinic as well to just sit outside and watch the fatty's walk in and out and ask him if he wants to be like them.
Real talk: find a good tasting protein drink line Premier Protein and see if you can get him to drink one a day. At his age though, just get him to move more. Find physical activities he gets into and lean into that.
He's certainly old enough to lift weights. Get him some dumbbells and kettlebells and get him moving with them, even if it's not "normal" exercises. Just get him moving. If he likes it, move on to a squat rack, bar, and some plates and start teaching him oly lifts.
Posted on 9/15/25 at 7:20 pm to TigerGman
I would just work on absolute form even if it is nothing/minimal weight. When his voice fully changes, that's a good sign he can start lifting more.
Posted on 9/15/25 at 7:31 pm to TigerGman
The first thing I started to type was kind of ugly, so I've taken a pause, and I'm trying again.
Don't you realize that 10 years old is about the age when many kids get a little heavier? The body gets a little ahead of itself with the girth, and the height has to catch up. By 11-12, a lot of chunky 9-10 year olds have evened out. I've seen this in photos of I don't know how many people. It happened to me, it's happened to lots of kids, most I would say. Don't come at him about his weight. He's 10, he'll smell that shite from a mile away and probably won't appreciate grandpa Jack Lalanne getting on his arse about it. He will recoil further back into the world of Minecraft and dinosaur shaped chicken nuggets. DON'T DO THIS!
In my opinion, doesn't matter if a person is 10 or 110, you aren't gonna lead them to resistance training if they aren't at least somewhat interested in it on their own. Does he have anyone in his life who is strong? I mean, really strong, not just strong to him. STRONG! As a childless fricker, I'm an expert on child rearin', he needs a model, a model of strength. All people need a model. He needs to see feats of strength performed for him. Get creative, when you shake his dad's hand, squeeze it so hard he goes to his knees and begs you to turn loose, or throw his Nintendo Switch across that retention pond in your subdivision, he's not gonna want to play video games anymore once you show him what real muscles can do. If you can't do this, just shoot me the address and I'll drop in and help the lad out.
I saw a documentary film when I was a wee lad, it was called Conan. It was about this kid who lived in a village and his dad was like the chief of the village, but these marauders came by and killed everyone, they killed his mom and dad right in front of him and took off Conan as a slave. They chained him to this big grinder wheel that he had to push around in a circle over and over with the other child slaves. Over the years, the other kids died because they were pussies I guess, but Conan just kept pushing the wheel until he became an adult and he was jacked! He looked just like a long haired Arnold Schwarzenegger. That's all it took for baby Denim, I was in, STRENGTH ABOVE STRENGTH! Put me on the wheel!
That was my model, but also in the real world I had a model, I wrestled at the Y as a youth, and our wrestling room was in the basement. Next to the wrestling room was the "real" weight room. The YMCA had a "gym" upstairs and it was for normal people. It had machines, cardio stuff, and it even had one of those machines where you just stand there and put a big strap around your abdomen and turn this giant mixer like machine on and it was supposed to tone your midsection???? I guess they thought you could jiggle the lard off? fricking ridiculous.
Anyway, in the basement was where the local Barbarians and Warlocks gathered to do real shite. Big leather belts, chalk, the smell of liniment and sweat, free weights, the sounds of metal(both from actual metal surfaces striking other metal surfaces and the Metallica kinds), etc. Do you know what that is like for an 8 year old to see? Do You? To see a grown man, (who is bigger than your dad, bigger than anyone's dad, and he has a tattoo!!!!), yelling at another grown man, "Come on! Come on! I'm not grabbing it! You got 2 more! I'm not saving your sorry arse, PUSHHHHHH!" That was influential to me. I wanted to be a Barbarian when I grew up. I wanted to wear string tank tops and yell at another man wearing a string tank top while he strained under a bar, and then we'd high five and then go to our duffel bags and pull out magic potions and have a toast with some kind of secret brew that child-sized Dr. Denim wasn't allowed to even know about yet. I wanted to have rough hands with chalk smeared into the lines of my palm so people knew I was a weightlifter. This was what victory looked like to me.
Also, If he wrinkles his nose up at meat, psshh! Forget about it, grandpa. You've got lots of seeds to plant if you want him to get into weightlifting, but it's not impossible. The questions you ask in your OP show me that you are getting a little out over the ends of your skis here. Start him at the beginning. Unless he lives with you and you are responsible for feeding him, you have almost no chance to influence his diet. That's up to his parents. 10 is not too young to properly strength train, he can get strong and put on muscle(within reason), but you have to bring him up right, which leads me to say.....
1. Technical proficiency in movement is numero uno, it never stops being numero uno...push ups, bench press, dips, jumping jacks, can't cheat on anything, it's sacrilege.
2. Knowing what shite is called and what it's used for is essential, there is a basic glossary that a person needs to have to understand equipment and exercises. People need to know gym and meathead lingo. Walking the walk is obviously important, but so is talking the talk, and that starts with understanding the language of strength training, nutrition, anatomy, endurance, etc.
3. Basic understanding of anatomy and physiology, again at a child's level to start, it grows with you. A person has to be able to grasp the importance of sleep, rest, stress, hydration, nutrition as you try to craft the best environment for training.
4. Training methods and programming - this stuff if the least important to me, but it gets talked about the most. Whatever you do, be intense, be consistent. That takes care of most of it. He'll have years and years to learn all about 10000000 different ways to do any number of things in the gym, but if he has shitty form, shitty diet, shitty sleep, no consistency, no passion, no intensity, it won't matter anyway because he'll get jack shite out of it and he'll quit.
Here's to your destruction.
If it all works out, your grandson will end up looking like one of these ladykillers.
*this was the entirety of what I was originally going to say, I'm glad I recanted and wrote you this extremely helpful and motivational guide.
"Leave him the frick alone."
Don't you realize that 10 years old is about the age when many kids get a little heavier? The body gets a little ahead of itself with the girth, and the height has to catch up. By 11-12, a lot of chunky 9-10 year olds have evened out. I've seen this in photos of I don't know how many people. It happened to me, it's happened to lots of kids, most I would say. Don't come at him about his weight. He's 10, he'll smell that shite from a mile away and probably won't appreciate grandpa Jack Lalanne getting on his arse about it. He will recoil further back into the world of Minecraft and dinosaur shaped chicken nuggets. DON'T DO THIS!
In my opinion, doesn't matter if a person is 10 or 110, you aren't gonna lead them to resistance training if they aren't at least somewhat interested in it on their own. Does he have anyone in his life who is strong? I mean, really strong, not just strong to him. STRONG! As a childless fricker, I'm an expert on child rearin', he needs a model, a model of strength. All people need a model. He needs to see feats of strength performed for him. Get creative, when you shake his dad's hand, squeeze it so hard he goes to his knees and begs you to turn loose, or throw his Nintendo Switch across that retention pond in your subdivision, he's not gonna want to play video games anymore once you show him what real muscles can do. If you can't do this, just shoot me the address and I'll drop in and help the lad out.
I saw a documentary film when I was a wee lad, it was called Conan. It was about this kid who lived in a village and his dad was like the chief of the village, but these marauders came by and killed everyone, they killed his mom and dad right in front of him and took off Conan as a slave. They chained him to this big grinder wheel that he had to push around in a circle over and over with the other child slaves. Over the years, the other kids died because they were pussies I guess, but Conan just kept pushing the wheel until he became an adult and he was jacked! He looked just like a long haired Arnold Schwarzenegger. That's all it took for baby Denim, I was in, STRENGTH ABOVE STRENGTH! Put me on the wheel!
That was my model, but also in the real world I had a model, I wrestled at the Y as a youth, and our wrestling room was in the basement. Next to the wrestling room was the "real" weight room. The YMCA had a "gym" upstairs and it was for normal people. It had machines, cardio stuff, and it even had one of those machines where you just stand there and put a big strap around your abdomen and turn this giant mixer like machine on and it was supposed to tone your midsection???? I guess they thought you could jiggle the lard off? fricking ridiculous.
Anyway, in the basement was where the local Barbarians and Warlocks gathered to do real shite. Big leather belts, chalk, the smell of liniment and sweat, free weights, the sounds of metal(both from actual metal surfaces striking other metal surfaces and the Metallica kinds), etc. Do you know what that is like for an 8 year old to see? Do You? To see a grown man, (who is bigger than your dad, bigger than anyone's dad, and he has a tattoo!!!!), yelling at another grown man, "Come on! Come on! I'm not grabbing it! You got 2 more! I'm not saving your sorry arse, PUSHHHHHH!" That was influential to me. I wanted to be a Barbarian when I grew up. I wanted to wear string tank tops and yell at another man wearing a string tank top while he strained under a bar, and then we'd high five and then go to our duffel bags and pull out magic potions and have a toast with some kind of secret brew that child-sized Dr. Denim wasn't allowed to even know about yet. I wanted to have rough hands with chalk smeared into the lines of my palm so people knew I was a weightlifter. This was what victory looked like to me.
Also, If he wrinkles his nose up at meat, psshh! Forget about it, grandpa. You've got lots of seeds to plant if you want him to get into weightlifting, but it's not impossible. The questions you ask in your OP show me that you are getting a little out over the ends of your skis here. Start him at the beginning. Unless he lives with you and you are responsible for feeding him, you have almost no chance to influence his diet. That's up to his parents. 10 is not too young to properly strength train, he can get strong and put on muscle(within reason), but you have to bring him up right, which leads me to say.....
1. Technical proficiency in movement is numero uno, it never stops being numero uno...push ups, bench press, dips, jumping jacks, can't cheat on anything, it's sacrilege.
2. Knowing what shite is called and what it's used for is essential, there is a basic glossary that a person needs to have to understand equipment and exercises. People need to know gym and meathead lingo. Walking the walk is obviously important, but so is talking the talk, and that starts with understanding the language of strength training, nutrition, anatomy, endurance, etc.
3. Basic understanding of anatomy and physiology, again at a child's level to start, it grows with you. A person has to be able to grasp the importance of sleep, rest, stress, hydration, nutrition as you try to craft the best environment for training.
4. Training methods and programming - this stuff if the least important to me, but it gets talked about the most. Whatever you do, be intense, be consistent. That takes care of most of it. He'll have years and years to learn all about 10000000 different ways to do any number of things in the gym, but if he has shitty form, shitty diet, shitty sleep, no consistency, no passion, no intensity, it won't matter anyway because he'll get jack shite out of it and he'll quit.
Here's to your destruction.
If it all works out, your grandson will end up looking like one of these ladykillers.
*this was the entirety of what I was originally going to say, I'm glad I recanted and wrote you this extremely helpful and motivational guide.
"Leave him the frick alone."
Posted on 9/15/25 at 8:45 pm to DrDenim
quote:
*this was the entirety of what I was originally going to say, I'm glad I recanted and wrote you this extremely helpful and motivational guide.
"Leave him the frick alone."
Um Ok...might want to remember to take your meds. It helps.
And he wants to learn how to Scuba Dive with me, so I told him he has to work getting stronger to wear all the equipment ( and he does).
Posted on 9/15/25 at 10:40 pm to TigerGman
quote:
He doesn't like protein much, and pretty much refuses to eat any kind of meat.
quote:
he'll eat less carbs and junk food
Baw, this ain't a lifting problem, this is a parental and discipline problem. You're not gonna outlift a crappy diet.
Posted on 9/15/25 at 10:56 pm to TigerFanatic99
quote:
his parents are failures.
Whatever his parents let him do, the boy will do. You can know better as a grandparent, but if mommy still packs lunchables and lets him watch his iPad every minute he isn’t doing homework, it’s ineffective.
OP, you fix the problem by figuring out how to talk to your direct offspring about it. There is zero chance you can fix this on your own. Boys are either lazy AF or they’re like a human Belgian malinois, there doesn’t seem to be much in between.
Posted on 9/16/25 at 8:42 am to TigerGman
Are you his primary guardian? If not, it’s going to be difficult to have enough influence over his diet.
Body weight exercises focusing on form are probably the first step. Need to really make it fun for him at this age. Make a game or competition of it, with some reward tied to it.
Are his parents healthy/fit? If not, trying to influence their behaviors would likely be a greater help to your grandson than anything else.
Body weight exercises focusing on form are probably the first step. Need to really make it fun for him at this age. Make a game or competition of it, with some reward tied to it.
Are his parents healthy/fit? If not, trying to influence their behaviors would likely be a greater help to your grandson than anything else.
Posted on 9/16/25 at 9:02 am to TigerGman
the age they can pay attention and listen to the coaching is the right time to start lifting. For some, that may be as young as 3 or 4, for others it may be 18+ and the programming looks a little different pre-pubescent than after in terms of exercise selection
the basic movement patterns still apply though no matter the age
crawls- forward, backwards, side ways
sprint- acceleration & max velocity
jump- vert & horz; intensive & extensive
throw- rotational, overhead, backwards
horz push & pull
vert push & pull
squat
lower unilateral
hinge
carry
simply and effective. plug and play template. pick one exercise for each and do it in that order. pick age appropriate exercise. So for your 10 year old, it may look like this
1) crawls- 10 yards each. Bear crawl, Reverse bear crawl, sideways bear crawl each way.
2) sprint- 3 ten yard sprints, 1 thirty yard sprint
3)jump- 2 min jump rope; 4 dumbell jumps with 5 lbs,
4) throw- 3 backwards overhead throw w/ 4lbs ball, 3 rotational shotput throws with 1lbs ball
5)
horz push- 2 sets of 5-8 pushups
horz pull- 2 sets of 5-8 ring rows
6)
vert push- 2 sets of hand stand holds against the wall for max time
vert pull- 2 sets of chin up holds at top for time
7) squat- 2 sets of slant board goblet squats with small DB
8) lower unilateral- 2 sets of 8-10 walking reverse lunge on each leg with bodyweight
9) hinge- KB or dumbbell sumo deadlift
10) carry- farmers walk with 2 dumbbells
now you are not going to be able to have him do all of that in one session either so break it up and the above are just examples. do the sprint/jump/throws each session.
you can do the squats, the carry, the unilateral work with medicine balls too.
rings are great
the sled with a rope and either rings or suspension trainer is the ultimate training tool for young kids. if you have a set of rings, a sled and some medicine balls you have every single thing you need. Add a waterbag and you really have a killer gym for 3-4 years where they can make tons of progress.
for my 10 year old, we do the above template for the most part, we use the water bag for squats, unilateral work, vertical push, hinge, horz row or we use the sled. lots of ring work too and chin ups.
he only does this maybe 2x per week, mostly once. he plays 3 sports and practices for them.
I start them on barbell work the summer before starting middle school. before then its all things like this where we are working with
med balls
rings
water bags
sandbags
kettlebells
if you notice, its lots of unstable objects and non perfect training. lots of bodyweight and farm style work where you push/pull/carry heavy shite relative to bodyweight.
im a huge believer in the crawls, max effort jumping and sprinting for the little ones.
the basic movement patterns still apply though no matter the age
crawls- forward, backwards, side ways
sprint- acceleration & max velocity
jump- vert & horz; intensive & extensive
throw- rotational, overhead, backwards
horz push & pull
vert push & pull
squat
lower unilateral
hinge
carry
simply and effective. plug and play template. pick one exercise for each and do it in that order. pick age appropriate exercise. So for your 10 year old, it may look like this
1) crawls- 10 yards each. Bear crawl, Reverse bear crawl, sideways bear crawl each way.
2) sprint- 3 ten yard sprints, 1 thirty yard sprint
3)jump- 2 min jump rope; 4 dumbell jumps with 5 lbs,
4) throw- 3 backwards overhead throw w/ 4lbs ball, 3 rotational shotput throws with 1lbs ball
5)
horz push- 2 sets of 5-8 pushups
horz pull- 2 sets of 5-8 ring rows
6)
vert push- 2 sets of hand stand holds against the wall for max time
vert pull- 2 sets of chin up holds at top for time
7) squat- 2 sets of slant board goblet squats with small DB
8) lower unilateral- 2 sets of 8-10 walking reverse lunge on each leg with bodyweight
9) hinge- KB or dumbbell sumo deadlift
10) carry- farmers walk with 2 dumbbells
now you are not going to be able to have him do all of that in one session either so break it up and the above are just examples. do the sprint/jump/throws each session.
you can do the squats, the carry, the unilateral work with medicine balls too.
rings are great
the sled with a rope and either rings or suspension trainer is the ultimate training tool for young kids. if you have a set of rings, a sled and some medicine balls you have every single thing you need. Add a waterbag and you really have a killer gym for 3-4 years where they can make tons of progress.
for my 10 year old, we do the above template for the most part, we use the water bag for squats, unilateral work, vertical push, hinge, horz row or we use the sled. lots of ring work too and chin ups.
he only does this maybe 2x per week, mostly once. he plays 3 sports and practices for them.
I start them on barbell work the summer before starting middle school. before then its all things like this where we are working with
med balls
rings
water bags
sandbags
kettlebells
if you notice, its lots of unstable objects and non perfect training. lots of bodyweight and farm style work where you push/pull/carry heavy shite relative to bodyweight.
im a huge believer in the crawls, max effort jumping and sprinting for the little ones.
Posted on 9/16/25 at 10:09 am to TigerGman
Kids can be picky eaters for 1000's of reasons. I have 3 kids, 1 is very picky - same parenting same dinners same food options everything just they way he is wired. If an option seek out a child food therapist which will cost some $ and figure out what is really going on. Maybe before a professional try do it yourself, there are ton's of books and other resources / stuff online as ways to help him. He might be a little old but Mikey & the Dragons by Jocko is great book for kids overcoming whatever challenges kids are facing
In meantime if protein is a concern all kinds of ways to get the kid protein without him eating a ribeye. the regular Fairlife chocolate milk is high protein and they even make more protein rich versions. You can bake protein into muffins and all kinds of baked goods again all kinds of recipes online or cook books out there. There is even a thread on this page about high protein ice cream, store bought version as well think halo is a brand in most stores. Bacon was a gate way for my kid to meat...
For exercise at that age 777 did a good summary of workout routines but what about sports? Does he show an interest or does he currently play anything? At that age all my kids team sports were parent coached with buddies from his school, sign him up or if not one volunteer to organize or coach a team. Local YMCA or other leagues always accept singles and can pair him with a team that needs a player if school teams isn't an option. Year round opportunities have him try everything at this age and see what he's in to.
If team sports doesn't interest him lots of individual out there. Marshall arts, tennis, wrestling just some examples but you name it kiddo activities is big business these days so wherever you are I'm sure there are options just find something that peaks his interest, he can have fun doing, make a few friends and support him getting active.
In meantime if protein is a concern all kinds of ways to get the kid protein without him eating a ribeye. the regular Fairlife chocolate milk is high protein and they even make more protein rich versions. You can bake protein into muffins and all kinds of baked goods again all kinds of recipes online or cook books out there. There is even a thread on this page about high protein ice cream, store bought version as well think halo is a brand in most stores. Bacon was a gate way for my kid to meat...
For exercise at that age 777 did a good summary of workout routines but what about sports? Does he show an interest or does he currently play anything? At that age all my kids team sports were parent coached with buddies from his school, sign him up or if not one volunteer to organize or coach a team. Local YMCA or other leagues always accept singles and can pair him with a team that needs a player if school teams isn't an option. Year round opportunities have him try everything at this age and see what he's in to.
If team sports doesn't interest him lots of individual out there. Marshall arts, tennis, wrestling just some examples but you name it kiddo activities is big business these days so wherever you are I'm sure there are options just find something that peaks his interest, he can have fun doing, make a few friends and support him getting active.
Posted on 9/16/25 at 10:44 am to b_w
quote:
Marshall arts
Posted on 9/16/25 at 12:56 pm to TigerGman
Normal
My son who is presently a college football player was a pudgy fellow at 10yo.
Some behavior, some physical development stage. 100% not inevitable that this is beginning of permanence.
Teach good behaviors but most importantly just let him be a kid.
Worst thing is making an issue where not warranted.
You will look back at pictures and call it a natural phase, and that’s far more productive than looking back to that time as the origin of eventual Psyc scar tissue formed by msking it an issue at 10yo.
Don’t be that adult in his life. Let the girls phase, that comes next, be the only Psyc scar tissue in his life. Kidding.
My son who is presently a college football player was a pudgy fellow at 10yo.
Some behavior, some physical development stage. 100% not inevitable that this is beginning of permanence.
Teach good behaviors but most importantly just let him be a kid.
Worst thing is making an issue where not warranted.
You will look back at pictures and call it a natural phase, and that’s far more productive than looking back to that time as the origin of eventual Psyc scar tissue formed by msking it an issue at 10yo.
Don’t be that adult in his life. Let the girls phase, that comes next, be the only Psyc scar tissue in his life. Kidding.
This post was edited on 9/16/25 at 12:58 pm
Posted on 9/16/25 at 1:48 pm to DrDenim
quote:
Anyway, in the basement was where the local Barbarians and Warlocks gathered to do real shite. Big leather belts, chalk, the smell of liniment and sweat, free weights, the sounds of metal(both from actual metal surfaces striking other metal surfaces and the Metallica kinds), etc. Do you know what that is like for an 8 year old to see?
I grew up in that environment. Real 45's clanking around and chalk bring back memories. My dad was a powerlifter back in the 70's and 80's. I remember he would take me as a kid to the gym and I am pretty sure by 10 I was lifting. Nothing crazy but I know I was doing stuff that young. My dad was one of the strongest men I have ever known and that's saying a lot because I became a powerlifter as well. I passed him on lots of lifts but not all. He is one of the only humans that I have seen that could rep 405 on incline for 10+ and 315 on shoulder press. He was a freak. I say this because I turned out ok but my folks were divorced so I really ever only got to go to the gym with him on weekends and the odd weekday that he picked me up from school. So that is caveated by I was never burned out from lifting. What I did get burned out from was from boxing. My uncle picked us up from school every day since my mom worked. He ran a boxing gym and that's where my brother and I went after school so I started boxing in 4th grade. Not sure what age that is but has to be around 10. We did everything the adult boxers did except spar obviously. That is what made me a decent athlete that carried over into being an adult.
Posted on 9/16/25 at 5:17 pm to TigerGman
Just wanted to say thanks for all the advice. Good stuff and lot's of food for thought ( pun intended)!
Just too much to respond to individually. It's a difficult situation with his diet because it's basically the parent's responsibility, not mine. But I'm gonna work on it.
Just too much to respond to individually. It's a difficult situation with his diet because it's basically the parent's responsibility, not mine. But I'm gonna work on it.
Posted on 9/17/25 at 7:42 am to TigerGman
You need to fix his diet first. It's 85% diet.
Posted on 9/17/25 at 9:23 am to ronricks
Ron will catch downvotes but my 10 year old is pudgy. Constant snacker. You know how he has leaned out some now? I don’t buy snacks. Eat rice/potato, meat, veg. Boiled eggs for “snacks”. He also does body weight stuff and hangs on his own, he likes it. My oldest is too heavy but he plays line and needs some extra. Probably 20% BF. He’s also top 5 in strength as a freshman. Probably #1 in a powerlifting total. As for my middle kid, well, he’s not interested in any of it, and that’s ok. He’s only 11.
My oldest hated lifting at 11 and I made him anyway. Now he loves it. My advice is introduce him to body weight stuff and make it fun. Don’t go all strength Coach on him like I did and be all intense. It made it not fun for a couple years
My oldest hated lifting at 11 and I made him anyway. Now he loves it. My advice is introduce him to body weight stuff and make it fun. Don’t go all strength Coach on him like I did and be all intense. It made it not fun for a couple years
Posted on 9/19/25 at 1:24 pm to TigerGman
On of my sons was doing free weights in our basement when he was 10. He did it for 6 months and kept a book tracking his lift gains He definitely got stronger, his muscularity was very good, and got really firm although he did not get much thicker due to having a slim build. He liked it and baseball practice/games took precedent. 
Posted on 9/20/25 at 8:58 pm to TigerGman
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And he wants to learn how to Scuba Dive with me, so I told him he has to work getting stronger to wear all the equipment ( and he does).
GREAT!
That's your angle, that's the model. If a person looks around and needs to find something, anything, to fuel or kickstart an entrance into strength training, it won't take long before something reveals itself. This is of course true of anything, you just have to be willing to look for the dots and find out how to connect them.
Scuba Diving....
I suggest you find a copy of the movie "The Deep" (currently streaming on Tubi for free) starring Nick Nolte and Robert Shaw. Jaqueline Bisset in a wet, white t-shirt is a great way to get a 10 year old whose interested in scuba diving, to become REALLY interested in scuba diving. Jaqueline Bisset in a wet t-shirt should be used as a recruitment tool for...well...pretty much everything. I can't see how it wouldn't work.
I don't know what's going on, but I'M IN!!!
Also, there's some beefy macho men in The Deep that may inspire him to get into strength training. Nolte himself is no slouch physically, but I'm more referring to these 2 character actors, Earl Maynard and the glorious and legendary Robert Tessier. Earl plays one of Louis Gossett Jr's henchman and Robert is one of Robert Shaw's goons named Kevin in the movie.
Here's Earl sizing up Tessier, those are just the kinds of shirts everyone wore in the 70's, it was a better time. Your grandson doesn't necessarily have to wear a shirt like that, it's optional but it would be pretty cool if he did.
Earl Maynard is less well known, but he was a legitimate bodybuilder (3rd place in the first Mr. Olympia contest) and professional wrestler.
Robert Tessier was a highly recognizable stunt man, character actor. Basically if the main character needed to get in a dust-up with a big ugly brute, they called Robert in to get his arse kicked. He's been in everything and he's always the heavy, big, bald, speaks only in punches guy. Most people recognize him from the OG Longest Yard movie with Burton Leon Reynolds, he was the bald nut bag who broke that one dude's nose who played Jaws in the Bond movie. His entire adult life was punching and getting punched in movies and doing motorcycle stunts.
Anyway, both of those guys are jacked, they don't do a lot of scuba diving, in fact they don't to any scuba diving. They just do tough guy stuff, all the scuba is left up to Nolte, Bisset, and Shaw. But plant those seeds. I've never scuba dived, but that shite looks heavy, and you never know, you too may find yourself in a situation where some rough characters try to beat you up and take the treasure from you that you and your grandson found while diving in the Bahamas and you'll have to get in a punch out with em. Strength will serve you well here. Also BJJ, and perhaps some cardio. I can't speak to that, but I've heard things.
Mahalo
Bisset, dude! You can't get enough bra-less Bisset.
Posted on 9/21/25 at 8:32 pm to DrDenim
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Bisset, dude! You can't get enough bra-less Bisset.
I grew up with that Movie. Those tits are one of the reasons I got interested in Diving in the first place. LOL...
Well, not to mention Jacques Cousteau.
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