Weight Training for the Adolescent

If you have let your child play as my previous article suggested, then you should have a sufficiently developed adolescent to really start training. The should have developed flexibility, relative strength (strength based on body weight), speed, agility, power, and balance. Since these
�have been developed you now have a solid base to work with and start training your adolescent with more advanced training regimens.The first thing you will do when you work with an adolescent is to sit down and see what their goals are for this training. Once you know these goals you can properly lay down your plan or road map to reach the goal. When it comes to weight room training at this stage in the participants life you still want to be on the side of safety. Teach them the exercises in the program with just the bar and make sure they develop sufficient technique before you start progressing them. If you are not sure of proper technique there are many books and videos on the subject. If the adolescent is training for sports you should look at Olympic lifting videos and power lifting videos. These to strength and power sports require the best techniques either for their competitions or they translate the best to the athletic field. If they adolescent is training for aesthetic purposes then reading up on bodybuilding techniques might be the best idea. All of these techniques can be used for any number of reason and they all have originated from the same background. Once a solid technical base has been achieved (this may take a few weeks up to a few months depending on the lift and the person learning) then you can start setting up an even more organized training program to develop the adolescent.Weight Training for the Adolescent

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