RDL: 12x5kg

Bent over barbell row: 12x5kg

Military press: 3x5kg

Barbell back squat: 2x5kg

Looks like your son's built to pull. :)

HEy Zen How old is your lad?

HEy Zen How old is your lad?

He's six years old.

The goal here, just to make it clear, is for me to spend time with him, get him to learn to keep his back safe while lifting. He sees me work out and so he wants to lift as well. There are no strength or conditioning goals. Hypertrophy will take care of itself in about ten years.

Conventional deadlift: 12x5kg

Bent over barbell row: 12x5kg

Military press: 5x5kg

Barbell back squat: 4x5kg

He can easily pull this weight but we aren't going to add anything until he can focus on keeping his back set. The deads were all different from one to the next. The rows were all uniform but his back was set with a constant bend. Early days.

RDL: 12x8kg

Squats: 12x8kg

Bent over barbell rows: 12x8kg

Standing press: 12x5kg

He wanted to have plates on so we had the pair of 0.5kg and the pair of 1kg plates except for the press.

Workout done on 1/20/2008


RDL: 12x8kg

Squats: 12x8kg

Bent over barbell rows: 12x8kg

Standing press: 12x5kg

5 pushups

RDL: 12x5kg

Squats: 12x5kg

Bent over barbell rows: 12x5kg

Standing press: 12x5kg

Deadlift: 12x5kg

Bent over barbell rows: 12x5kg

Standing press: 12x5kg

Squats: 12x5kg

12 pushups

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12 pushups

Deadlift: 12x5kg

Bent over barbell rows: 12x5kg

Standing press: 12x5kg

Squats: 12x5kg

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Awarded first black tip on white karate belt. :tucool:

Awarded first black tip on white karate belt. :tucool:

Yay! :claphigh:

You know, I think your son uses more weight than most women at my gym (and some guys, too). :blank:

Yay! :claphigh:

You know, I think your son uses more weight than most women at my gym (and some guys, too). :blank:

In his case, it's not about increasing the weight though. He's going to grow fast anyway, and his muscles probably won't respond to resistance in much of a useful way until puberty. I think it's valuable for him to know how to protect his back while lifting and to have some idea of his own strength. Since we only do this once a week, his body's response to load is determined a lot more by his other activities than by this.

In his case, it's not about increasing the weight though. He's going to grow fast anyway, and his muscles probably won't respond to resistance in much of a useful way until puberty. I think it's valuable for him to know how to protect his back while lifting and to have some idea of his own strength. Since we only do this once a week, his body's response to load is determined a lot more by his other activities than by this.

Oh, sure. I was just making an observation. Obviously, at his age, he doesn't have the hormones necessary to make any huge gains. I think it's great that he's starting off so early, though :nod:.

3 laps on a 1/12 mile track.

12 pushups.

Barbell back squats: 12x5kg

Bent over barbell rows: 12x5kg

Dumbell deadlift: 12x8#

Press: 12x5kg

3 laps on 1/12 mile track.

Press: 12x5kg
Squats: 12x5kg
Rows: 12x5kg
Deadlifts: 12x5kg
Pushups: 12
Burpees: 20

Form was best so far.

EDIT: Later we did 5 laps of 1/12 mile at the health club.

Press: 8x5kg + some partials
RDLs: 5x5kg + some partials
Squats: 11x5kg + one rep was a good morning.
Yates rows: 12x5kg

We are trying to work on keeping the back straight:

Press: 12x5kg
Squats: 12x5kg
Rows: 12x5kg
Deadlifts: 12x5kg
Pushups: 12
Burpees: 30

I enjoy watching this journal. My son is 4 years old, and he loves to play around in our home gym while I'm working out (I only let him do this once in a while). I have some 1 lb. dumbbells for him to mess with.

I think it's great that you're teaching your son some fundamentals at such a young age!:tucool:

I enjoy watching this journal. My son is 4 years old, and he loves to play around in our home gym while I'm working out (I only let him do this once in a while). I have some 1 lb. dumbbells for him to mess with.

I think it's great that you're teaching your son some fundamentals at such a young age!:tucool:

I think he is starting to understand what keeping the back straight means.

Zen, big kudos for introducing your son to fitness at such an early age. Hopefully it will be lessons that will stick with him the rest of his life.

I think he is starting to understand what keeping the back straight means.

That's great! At what age did he first ask you to start teaching him about fitness? I'm going to attempt to teach my son as much as he wants to know about fitness and working out - but I figure I will always let him ask me first. That way I won't feel like I am pushing my interests onto him. I just hope that he continues to take an interest in it, much like your son is.:tu:

That's great! At what age did he first ask you to start teaching him about fitness?

When he was about two and a half and saw me lifting. So I got him some one pound dumbells. Eventually he took to lifting my EZ-curl bar for deadlifts on his own, and that is when I decided to get him the lighter (but much more "official" looking straight bar).

Four miles bike ride.

Barbell back squat: 12x5kg

Military press: 12x5kg

Yates rows: 12x5kg

Conventional deadlift: 12x5kg

Split jerks: 12x5kg

Pushups: 12

Burpees: 12

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Supplementary (he decided to try this himself):

Military press: 2x0x25.5#

Yates row: 5x25.5#

Barbell back squat: 5x25.5#

Deadlift: 10x25.5#