Gym and it's effects on height during puberty

[MilkMan87]

As you're growing, your body needs a source of energy and nutrients for height growth. But when you're going to the gym at 12-18 and doing HIIT training or running a powerlifting/bodybuilding program that involves lifting heavy weights. You're literally making your body divide it's resources between increasing your muscle fiber's size, and growing taller.


Imagine you're asleep and the nutrients you've eaten today are being chosen for certain purposes. You're basically taking away the nutrients that could've been used for height growth and using them for "muh muscles", it's literally self-destructive.

My personal experience with the gym:
I started when I was around 13, I was really short, around 157cm-162cm, In the following years I became 171 at 15, roughly 5'7 1/2. I'm not sure if the gym helped my growth or stunted it but when I had my bodybuilding phase I eating a lot of protein and carbs so that's a plus if you're a gymcel.


To play Devil's Advocate here, The gym does increase test, GH, Igf-1, increases sleep quality, and all that good stuff. But these can also be achieved through sprinting so it's quite a gray area for most people on here tbh.

What are your thoughts on this??

 

[jordanisbetterthanu]

As you're growing, your body needs a source of energy and nutrients for height growth. But when you're going to the gym at 12-18 and doing HIIT training or running a powerlifting/bodybuilding program that involves lifting heavy weights. You're literally making your body divide it's resources between increasing your muscle fiber's size, and growing taller.


Imagine you're asleep and the nutrients you've eaten today are being chosen for certain purposes. You're basically taking away the nutrients that could've been used for height growth and using them for "muh muscles", it's literally self-destructive.

My personal experience with the gym:
I started when I was around 13, I was really short, around 157cm-162cm, In the following years I became 171 at 15, roughly 5'7 1/2. I'm not sure if the gym helped my growth or stunted it but when I had my bodybuilding phase I eating a lot of protein and carbs so that's a plus if you're a gymcel.


To play Devil's Advocate here, The gym does increase test, GH, Igf-1, increases sleep quality, and all that good stuff. But these can also be achieved through sprinting so it's quite a gray area for most people on here tbh.

What are your thoughts on this??

Just play a chad sport during puberty

 

[Vanilla]

As you're growing, your body needs a source of energy and nutrients for height growth. But when you're going to the gym at 12-18 and doing HIIT training or running a powerlifting/bodybuilding program that involves lifting heavy weights. You're literally making your body divide it's resources between increasing your muscle fiber's size, and growing taller.


Imagine you're asleep and the nutrients you've eaten today are being chosen for certain purposes. You're basically taking away the nutrients that could've been used for height growth and using them for "muh muscles", it's literally self-destructive.

My personal experience with the gym:
I started when I was around 13, I was really short, around 157cm-162cm, In the following years I became 171 at 15, roughly 5'7 1/2. I'm not sure if the gym helped my growth or stunted it but when I had my bodybuilding phase I eating a lot of protein and carbs so that's a plus if you're a gymcel.


To play Devil's Advocate here, The gym does increase test, GH, Igf-1, increases sleep quality, and all that good stuff. But these can also be achieved through sprinting so it's quite a gray area for most people on here tbh.

What are your thoughts on this??

swiming, basketball, low body fat, (12-15), clean diet, calisthenics instead of gym, sleep a lot, have fun

 

[aber]

Just play a chad sport during puberty

That would be football, and no. The weight room training might just stunt growth due to taking resources for muscles that could be used for height. In OP’s theory.

 

[aber]

As you're growing, your body needs a source of energy and nutrients for height growth. But when you're going to the gym at 12-18 and doing HIIT training or running a powerlifting/bodybuilding program that involves lifting heavy weights. You're literally making your body divide it's resources between increasing your muscle fiber's size, and growing taller.


Imagine you're asleep and the nutrients you've eaten today are being chosen for certain purposes. You're basically taking away the nutrients that could've been used for height growth and using them for "muh muscles", it's literally self-destructive.

My personal experience with the gym:
I started when I was around 13, I was really short, around 157cm-162cm, In the following years I became 171 at 15, roughly 5'7 1/2. I'm not sure if the gym helped my growth or stunted it but when I had my bodybuilding phase I eating a lot of protein and carbs so that's a plus if you're a gymcel.


To play Devil's Advocate here, The gym does increase test, GH, Igf-1, increases sleep quality, and all that good stuff. But these can also be achieved through sprinting so it's quite a gray area for most people on here tbh.

What are your thoughts on this??

This is why I’m a huge advocate for calisthenics, good body during puberty but it’s not some kind of bodybuilder cope for teenagers who feel inadequate. It builds a fair amount of muscle, that looks good when lean. I believe that if one wants to pursue resistance training, and eke out every inch and CM possible in puberty, they should adhere to body weight training.

 

[cryptt]

As you're growing, your body needs a source of energy and nutrients for height growth. But when you're going to the gym at 12-18 and doing HIIT training or running a powerlifting/bodybuilding program that involves lifting heavy weights. You're literally making your body divide it's resources between increasing your muscle fiber's size, and growing taller.


Imagine you're asleep and the nutrients you've eaten today are being chosen for certain purposes. You're basically taking away the nutrients that could've been used for height growth and using them for "muh muscles", it's literally self-destructive.

My personal experience with the gym:
I started when I was around 13, I was really short, around 157cm-162cm, In the following years I became 171 at 15, roughly 5'7 1/2. I'm not sure if the gym helped my growth or stunted it but when I had my bodybuilding phase I eating a lot of protein and carbs so that's a plus if you're a gymcel.


To play Devil's Advocate here, The gym does increase test, GH, Igf-1, increases sleep quality, and all that good stuff. But these can also be achieved through sprinting so it's quite a gray area for most people on here tbh.

What are your thoughts on this??

Gym would obviously stunt growth during puberty if you don't have a really good diet which would probably be expensive if you don't have a good diet don't try to lift heavy to build muscle because the building blocks for height growth would just be used for muscle building

 

[MilkMan87]

This is why I’m a huge advocate for calisthenics, good body during puberty but it’s not some kind of bodybuilder cope for teenagers who feel inadequate. It builds a fair amount of muscle, that looks good when lean. I believe that if one wants to pursue resistance training, and eke out every inch and CM possible in puberty, they should adhere to body weight training.

If you're training til failure with calisthenics it's basically the same. you will build muscle since your muscle fibers don't know the difference between weights and free weight exercises. All it knows is mechanical tension and by training calisthenics (til failure) you will get nearly the same effect as doing compound exercises in the gym.
My problem is I'm looking for a sport that gives the benefits of gym training without taking away from height growth, and calisthenics doesn't really give you the hormone advantages that the gym does. When I was in the gym I was happier, stronger, more of a man and just led a high test lifestyle yk?

 

[aber]

If you're training til failure with calisthenics it's basically the same. you will build muscle since your muscle fibers don't know the difference between weights and free weight exercises. All it knows is mechanical tension and by training calisthenics (til failure) you will get nearly the same effect as doing compound exercises in the gym.
My problem is I'm looking for a sport that gives the benefits of gym training without taking away from height growth, and calisthenics doesn't really give you the hormone advantages that the gym does. When I was in the gym I was happier, stronger, more of a man and just led a high test lifestyle yk?

Thing is with calisthenics though, is that you can’t spare any body fat. In order to progress, you have to be leaner. Most of your mass will eventually be lean muscle. It’s why the gyms strongest athletes are fat. And the strongest calisthenics athletes of all time are ripped af. However good point about how the muscles can’t tell the difference.

 

[Aqualad]

No that’s not how it works dumb fuck

It doesn’t stunt your growth

 

[Debetro]

Schoolboy grew up to 190 cm, head + neck taller than his mother, while lifting heavy weights during puberty. You tell me

 

[shewantsme]

I started weights at 16 when I was 5'10 and i'm 6'0 at 18 now cope harder

 

[MilkMan87]

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No that’s not how it works dumb fuck

It doesn’t stunt your growth

its basic thermodynamics my guy. to repair a tissue whether it be muscle, bone, skin etc etc you need nutrients and time to fuel that process of repair / growth. hypothetically, if you sleep the same 8 hours in both cases,instead of 4 hours being spent on bone growth its now 2 hours on bone growth and 2 hours increasing muscle size.

 

[jsmad]

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As you're growing, your body needs a source of energy and nutrients for height growth. But when you're going to the gym at 12-18 and doing HIIT training or running a powerlifting/bodybuilding program that involves lifting heavy weights. You're literally making your body divide it's resources between increasing your muscle fiber's size, and growing taller.


Imagine you're asleep and the nutrients you've eaten today are being chosen for certain purposes. You're basically taking away the nutrients that could've been used for height growth and using them for "muh muscles", it's literally self-destructive.

My personal experience with the gym:
I started when I was around 13, I was really short, around 157cm-162cm, In the following years I became 171 at 15, roughly 5'7 1/2. I'm not sure if the gym helped my growth or stunted it but when I had my bodybuilding phase I eating a lot of protein and carbs so that's a plus if you're a gymcel.


To play Devil's Advocate here, The gym does increase test, GH, Igf-1, increases sleep quality, and all that good stuff. But these can also be achieved through sprinting so it's quite a gray area for most people on here tbh.

What are your thoughts on this??

I was going gym inconsistently from 14 years old to 17 and went from like 5,6 to 6,2 I don’t know if the gym is anything to do with it but I definitely didn’t stunt my growth. My dads 6ft and my moms 5,6

 

[MilkMan87]

Schoolboy grew up to 190 cm, head + neck taller than his mother, while lifting heavy weights during puberty. You tell me

forgot to mention his mom is like 5’8. his dad is probably tall too

 

[ADOLESCENTCEL]

Over if u cant grow while lifting circles in an air conditioned facility

 

[ADOLESCENTCEL]

If you rly wann defend this theory show the amount of nutritiion used to build muscle in proportion to height

Hypertropy and protein synthesis are rly straightforward concepts

 

[Aqualad]

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its basic thermodynamics my guy. to repair a tissue whether it be muscle, bone, skin etc etc you need nutrients and time to fuel that process of repair / growth. hypothetically, if you sleep the same 8 hours in both cases,instead of 4 hours being spent on bone growth its now 2 hours on bone growth and 2 hours increasing muscle size.

It’s proven that it doesn’t stunt growth stop spewing bullshit out of your mouth

And no you clearly know nothing about thermodynamics, your body can repair muscle and grow at the same time. Just look at young athletes

 

[Debetro]

forgot to mention his mom is like 5’8.

Where did you get that from

These are solid 20-25 cm

his dad is probably tall too

The point is he did not have his growth stunted by any means

 

[MilkMan87]

These are solid 20-25 cm

Ok? so like 5’7 still tall for a girl shes as tall as the average man worldwide bro

 

[ADOLESCENTCEL]

Ok? so like 5’7 still tall for a girl shes as tall as the average man worldwide bro

Yeah u have no idea what ur ralking about gtfo lmao

 

[Gaygymmaxx]

As you're growing, your body needs a source of energy and nutrients for height growth. But when you're going to the gym at 12-18 and doing HIIT training or running a powerlifting/bodybuilding program that involves lifting heavy weights. You're literally making your body divide it's resources between increasing your muscle fiber's size, and growing taller.


Imagine you're asleep and the nutrients you've eaten today are being chosen for certain purposes. You're basically taking away the nutrients that could've been used for height growth and using them for "muh muscles", it's literally self-destructive.

My personal experience with the gym:
I started when I was around 13, I was really short, around 157cm-162cm, In the following years I became 171 at 15, roughly 5'7 1/2. I'm not sure if the gym helped my growth or stunted it but when I had my bodybuilding phase I eating a lot of protein and carbs so that's a plus if you're a gymcel.


To play Devil's Advocate here, The gym does increase test, GH, Igf-1, increases sleep quality, and all that good stuff. But these can also be achieved through sprinting so it's quite a gray area for most people on here tbh.

What are your thoughts on this??

Yeah I gymcelled hard like a retard and wasted my HGH in teen years

Adhered to my growth chart so idk how much I could have really gotten though

 

[MilkMan87]

Yeah u have no idea what ur ralking about gtfo lmao

keep coping boyo

 

[ADOLESCENTCEL]

keep coping boyo

Pure theory treating it like fact

U have obviously jever put on a sweat bfore u fucking moron

 

[MilkMan87]

U have obviously jever put on a sweat bfore u fucking moron

I’ve been in the gym for a year and a half basically. I have a decent athletic physique.

 

[ADOLESCENTCEL]

I’ve been in the gym for a year and a half basically. I have a decent athletic physique.

 

[MilkMan87]

I started weights at 16 when I was 5'10 and i'm 6'0 at 18 now cope harder

no coping here, you were already above average kid

 

[LegitUser]

If you aren't taking aromasin during puberty then wtf r u doing

 

[MilkMan87]

If you aren't taking aromasin during puberty then wtf r u doing

I really wanna take AI and CJC but the only thing stopping me is I dont wanna lie to people when they ask if im natty or not

 

[LegitUser]

I really wanna take AI and CJC but the only thing stopping me is I dont wanna lie to people when they ask if im natty or not

What's ur age height and weight rn

 

[MilkMan87]

What's ur age height and weight rn

15, 171.5cm, 75kgs

 

[LegitUser]

15, 171.5cm, 75kgs

Wait before starting AI at that then. Once ur growth velocity slows then start it

 

[MilkMan87]

Wait before starting AI at that then. Once ur growth velocity slows then start it

I've been the same height for 2 months. only gained half a cm

 

[LegitUser]

I've been the same height for 2 months. only gained half a cm

That's normal, Growth velocity should be measured over a 6 month period

 

[Scottrg]

 

[forgmeth]

As you're growing, your body needs a source of energy and nutrients for height growth. But when you're going to the gym at 12-18 and doing HIIT training or running a powerlifting/bodybuilding program that involves lifting heavy weights. You're literally making your body divide it's resources between increasing your muscle fiber's size, and growing taller.


Imagine you're asleep and the nutrients you've eaten today are being chosen for certain purposes. You're basically taking away the nutrients that could've been used for height growth and using them for "muh muscles", it's literally self-destructive.

My personal experience with the gym:
I started when I was around 13, I was really short, around 157cm-162cm, In the following years I became 171 at 15, roughly 5'7 1/2. I'm not sure if the gym helped my growth or stunted it but when I had my bodybuilding phase I eating a lot of protein and carbs so that's a plus if you're a gymcel.


To play Devil's Advocate here, The gym does increase test, GH, Igf-1, increases sleep quality, and all that good stuff. But these can also be achieved through sprinting so it's quite a gray area for most people on here tbh.

What are your thoughts on this??

this is just pseudbabble, this isn't how your body works at all

and yes the gym does increase IGF-1 which will literally make u grow taller LOL

 

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[Funnyunenjoyer1]

how many time per week?

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I was going gym inconsistently from 14 years old to 17 and went from like 5,6 to 6,2 I don’t know if the gym is anything to do with it but I definitely didn’t stunt my growth. My dads 6ft and my moms 5,5

 

[jsmad]

how many time per week?

2-4 maybe I also had football training 3 days a week aswell consistently so yeah