Absolute earliest age for weight training

[SofaGeorge]

It is absolute bullshit that you have to wait till any age. I've known people who started their kids at 4-5. I met one kid who was 8 and had been training for a few years. The "world's strongest boy" started training at 3-4.

The whole thing of weightlifting stunting growth is a very ignorant myth. Kids who lift weights at 7-8 are simply using their muscles as they were intended to be used.

 

[louden_swain]

teen years. . .when the hormones are pumping.

 

[collegiateLifter]

The only thing you have to worry about is making the kid burnout and hate lifting. If you introduce it in such a way that (presumably) he likes it, then you're golden.