This mom is lifting her kids to drop some weight. Cassie Morrison, 26, couldn’t keep the weight off — until she began using her children as the most adorable workout equipment. “My weight was out of ...

Fifty years ago, the prevailing wisdom was that children should not lift weights until they are past puberty and well into their teens. It was thought that lifting weights could stunt growth caused by ...

Your 12-year-old son has asked for a set of dumbbells for his birthday. He wants to “get strong and build muscle”. But you’re worried that lifting weights might negatively impact his growth and ...

There has been a prevailing sentiment that lifting weights isn’t good for a young body until the teenage years. There is some truth to that statement but let’s make a key distinction between strength ...

Most high school athletic programs have some sort of strength training component, but club and travel sports have ramped up the stakes in kids athletics at an even earlier stage. S Seun Adeyeye Follow ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Essentially, from the 1970s to the ’90s, there was a huge increase in the number of kids who are considered to have obesity … too ...