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Anonymous
Hey /fit/.

I've got a argumentative research paper for English due in a week, and didn't feel like doing the routine boring one on abortion, and etc.

So I wanted to write up on one about the need to promote bodybuilding but with careful regulation to supplement and performance-enhancing substances, as well as the risks of training as an adolescent.

Sooo... I humbly ask /fit/ for any insightful info or links. Thanks all.
>> Anonymous
Unless you fuck up a growth plate, nothing really happens if you weight train when you're young.
>> Anonymous
http://www.teenhealthfx.com/answers/Sports/1441.html
>> Anonymous
>>need to promote bodybuilding
What? Why bodybuilding instead of health and fitness in general?
>> Anonymous
>>163441
I dunno. I figure bodybuilding contained all aspects of weight training, lifting, etc. and that health and fitness were already included.

Well what do you think? Which would be a better, solid topic/thesis?
>> Anonymous
>>163453
I would think the exact opposite, that bodybuilding isn't broad at all since you have specific goal to work for that not everybody may agree with. I would just promote an active and healthy lifestyle from physical activity to a healthy diet. If I were still writing essays I'd probably write something along the lines of how a healthy lifestyle isn't what the media makes it out to be. That fad diets and muscle magazines don't necessarily equal healthy.
>> Anonymous
>>163458
I see your point, you know that's pretty interesting. Well, basically our professor didn't want us to use such a general subject, or narrow one, but that fits nicely in-between.

I think I'll shift gears a little bit and write on that, while incorporating some bodybuilding aspects of course, the supplementation, performance enhancing substances, and the likes.

Aaargh, Iunno, I'll work it out. Thanks much.
>> Anonymous
>>163420
That would explain why I'm only 5'8" and why my brother is 6'2" and my sister is 5'6" (relatively tall for both men and women).
>> Anonymous
It's all myths about lifting too young. Just be sure not to lift TOO heavy, but weight training while young is a-ok. Those heavy lifts makes the bones close up.
>> Anonymous
I had to do the same thing for English, so I wrote about why a general physical preparedness (GPP) program is better for the public than following a bodybuilding routine.
>> Anonymous
Everyone that I know who started lifting young (15, 16) said they never grew after that.
>> Anonymous
I started lifting with a bunch of guys in middle school to get ready for wrestling in highschool. All of those guys grew tall, while I stayed at the height I'm at now. Genetics probably plays a bigger role than weightlifting does in determining how tall a kid will grow imo.
>> Anonymous
Need to promote -bodybuilding-? Bodybuilders aims to get a aestheticly pleasant body, nothing else. What, are you encouraging a shallow society?
No, really i don't see a purpose for bodybuilding, it's all about pride, self-esteem issues in my opinion.
It would make much more sense if you talked about i don't know, ~powerlifting~. It makes your body functional, it's amusing, you don't compare yourself to others so you learn modesty.
>> Anonymous
Go ahead and lift when you're young. Tall people are overrated skinny pricks anyway.
>> Anonymous
>>165443
The hell? Are you some 5'2' douchebag who gets steps over by taller guys or something?
>> Anonymous
OP do you go to Cerritos College by any chance?
>> Anonymous
>>165445

I'm 5'7" and still growing. I just hate tall, skinny people.
>> Anonymous
>>165447
But why?
>> Anonymous
>>165448

The ones I know tend to be assholes who thing 'tall' means 'big'.
>> Anonymous
>>165447
They're ugly. (Not>>165448)
>> Anonymous
>>165450
That's pretty weird. Most tall guys I know are pretty quiet and reserved.
>> Anonymous
>>165452
Yeah, tall people don't suffer from short man's disease
>> Anonymous
>>165455
True.

And if a girls has to choose from 2 almost identical guys, but one is short and one is tall, she'll pick the tall one.

Sucks to be short.
>> Anonymous
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>>165476
yeah i'm sure it's terrible
>> Anonymous
OP here.

>>165446

Nah, don't go to school there.

>>165152
>>165168

And shit guys, I think you're right, don't find it persuasive enough to settle for bodybuilding, so maybe just like you suggested either general health, fitness, physical preparedness, etc.

But I still want to use info related to some gym stuff like supplements, steroids, myths about lifting to young etc. So yeah, thanks all anyways.