14 year old weight training advice?

I grew up around weight training and started Olympic lifting when I was 12 and I’m 6’3” now. The “weight lifting stunts your growth” claim is a myth as long as he’s training properly, put him around a great coach like Matt Bruce at Bruce Barbell if you’re from BR and watch him get bigger and more athletic. Don’t try to figure it out yourself if you don’t know what you’re doing, you’ll hurt him more than help him and a great coach would be worth his weight in gold to y’all and answer any questions you have

As a first time lifter, he needs to learn the basics and to check his ego. Somebody will need to be there to guide him correctly. If done improperly, he can hurt himself or not be interested.

As an athlete, he will need to master bench press, back squat, deadlifts, over head press and power cleans. Those are the most basic and truly the most important lifts in a strength/athletic program. He needs to have an emphasis on great body movement and technique with the barbell. The strength will come on its own. He should eat to gain weight. Meats, healthy carbs and green veggies. Protein shakes are fine to hit macro and calorie goals, but should not be depended on too heavily. Thet are only supplements. I absolutely implore you to make sure he masters the technique of those barbell exercises before worrying about pounds on the bar. Great technique and a great quality of mobility will keep him healthy and injury free.

As said before, make sure he doesn’t get ahead of himself with ego lifting but more importantly, you do the same. It’s super easy to see your child gain and gain and want more for them.

plyometrics and body weight is fine if you’re truly concerned with weights.

Zach Even Esh and Jim Wendler are good sources for youth.

Strating strength is ok, greyskull, barbell medicine beginner template, candito lp, and the 531 beginner program are all much better though.

Thanks for all of the advice given. I realize that I probably now need to get him into a local program since I had to google most of the info y’all suggested!

Weight training is great. Any beginner linear program focused on compound lifts will work wonders at that age. It is not too early for weights at all.

Greyskull LP and Candito's linear program are my favorites. There are a lot of links and templates for both here.

Getting him protein is good. At his age, if he wants to add muscle, I would focus on 1.25 g protein per pound of bodyweight and a lot of relatively clean carbs.

We live close to Covington. Per everyone’s advice, I sought out his high school’s powerlifting coach. He has a summer program four days a week that in addition to free weights does body weight exercises and plyometrics. We’re going to give it a shot.

Should be a good choice. If not I know if a cpps trainer in Nola, lmk if you need the contact a info

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That kid does farmers walks with actual implements and he'll gain a ton of muscle.

Then, do sandbag cleans and watch the athletic performance skyrocket.