“There was a time when children 'weight trained' by carrying milk pails and helping around the farm. Now few children, even young athletes, get sufficient activity.”
—DR. LYLE MICHELI, director of sports medicine at Children's Hospital Boston, on the importance of weight training for children. Many people think weight-training fails to help strengthen children while increasing their risk of injury, but in fact the opposite is likely true [via The New York Times]
