Fourteen-year-old can deadlift more than two times his body weight...

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    [video=youtube;ueV5uHAw88A]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueV5uHAw88A[/video]

    Meet Jake Schellenschlager. He's 14 years old. And he can deadlift more than two times his body weight.

    A profile in The Washington Post spotlights Schellenschlager and the challenges inherent in his chosen sport. He's one of thousands of young powerlifters across the United States who are able to lift enormous weights far heavier than their own frame. (Powerlifters are not the same thing as bodybuilders, who focus more on appearance than on lifting for its own sake.)

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    Schellenschlager weighs only about 119 pounds, but can deadlift 300. He's been lifting for the past two years under a coach's supervision. The Post notes that children can begin competing in powerlifting competitions at 14, but that some children begin lifting at age 8 for fun.
    The question for someone so young, of course, is whether lifting at such a young age can have detrimental effects later in life. "Powerlifting and Olympic weightlifting sports are different because they usually are involving maximum lifts — the squat, bench press and the dead lift," Paul Stricker, a youth sports medicine specialist at the Scripps Health Clinic in San Diego, told the Post. "There is high risk to heavy maximal lifts or explosive lifts during their rapid growth phrase. That is our biggest caution. We just don’t recommend they do maximal lifts or explosive lifts until they have finished the majority of their growth spurt."

    “He doesn’t feel he can be defeated," says his trainer, Mike Sarni. "It is that inner strength that tells him, ‘I can do this.’ Usually, you only get that in older, more mature people.”

    Here's video of Jake lifting last summer:



    So, your thoughts. Is 14 too young for this activity, or is it no more damaging than any of a half-dozen other sports kids could be playing?
     
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    Stupid shit. The little peckerhead shouldn't be doing that stupidity. Why it isn't obvious to his parents I am not quite sure. The look on his face that suggests he is prarie dogging a football sized loaf should be enough but I guess not.
     
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    I would rather my kid do this and perhaps stunt his growth than play one of the more physical positions of football and risk brain damage. My 9 year old nephew is nationally ranked bike racer and practices everyday by himself biking at high speeds and on steep hills where a crash is likely at some point. Growing up I knew a bunch of ski team people and one of the girls got in a crash that broke 14 bones. Point is, kids do sports, sports have risks, and just cause this seems like a stupid sport to me, doesn't mean it's not worth the risk to this kid. It teaches competition, endurance, hard work, practice and more. So he ends up 5'7" instead of 5'10", big woopdy fucking doo.
     
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    The kid is being shown doing a squat. A deadlift is far easier and not a big deal to lift twice your weight. A clean and jerk would be different.
     
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    "Fire crews worked on the boy for about 10 minutes, bringing down a litter to pull him up, but left after determining he was dead."

    A litter of what? Were they hoping puppies or kittens could make him happy and bring him back? Or is a "litter" some medical/firefighter term that I am unaware of?
     
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    And that is in this thread why?
     
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