The decision to start resistance training with children should be based on their maturity level, ability to follow instructions, and expressed interest, not just age.

“The answer is you could start lifting weights at 5 years old I have friends that have done that with their kids no problem it always comes down to their maturity level okay do you have structured supervis uh capability do you know what you're doing and are they mature enough to follow attention”

“I do it as soon as she doesn't want to do it anymore of course there's never the we have to finish the rep or that great I want to go draw sure get out of here do whatever you want to do”

“we have tried and tried and tried to find the evidence that suggests that kids can't lift weights and we're we're coming up empty we're just coming up empty”

“I think at 11 you're going into middle school. you can start to understand that there may be some commitment involved in terms of hey if I want to make a team I'm going to probably have to learn to work at this thing and I'm going to have to learn to train and it's a very good if you kind of look at the um long-term athletic development models that 112 is a good learn to train age to get kids in and get them kind of oriented to hey here's how you do the exercises”