Dinosaur Training: Will Weight Training Stunt Your Growth?

John Grimek's father and older brother didn't want him to lift weights - because they were afraid it would stunt his growth!

Hail to the Dinosaurs!

Two quick notes, and then we'll talk
training.

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3. Does Weight Training Stunt Your
Growth?

Back in the day, many well-meaning
people believed that weight training
would stunt your growth.

Meaning that if you started weight
lifting as a teenager, you'd stop
growing to what would otherwise
have been your natural height.

I have no idea who started this idea,
or where it came from - but it was
very firmly entrenched for many
years.

Heck, I can remember people saying
it back when I started training in the
1960's.

And it was around long before that.

In fact, the most famous weight trainer
of the 1930's, 40's and 50's almost
didn't start training - because his
father believed that weight training
would stunt his growth.

Yes, I'm speaking of John Grimek.

Yes, THAT John Grimek.

Two-time Mr. America, Mr. USA and
Mr. Universe. The top bodybuilder of
his generation. Undefeated in body-
building contests.

Senior National Weightlifting Champion.

North American Weightlifting Champion.

American record holder in the military
press.

Unofficial World record holder in the
military press.

The man they called "the Monarch of
Muscledom."

THAT John Grimek.

John Grimek was a short little kid -
and his father and older brother
were worried that weight training
would keep him from growing any
taller.

So they told John he couldn't lift
weights!

They were so serious about it that
when John's older brother headed
out of town for a summer job at a
logging camp, he put his weights
in a big wooden box, wrapped it
up with a big chain, and locked it
with a padlock - and then took the
key with him!

Of course, younger brothers can
break into anything - and John
broke into the box - and took out
the weights and started training
in secret.

Anyhow, that's just one example
of how the belief that "stunt your
growth" fear almost stopped a
legendary training career.

But will weight training REALLY
stunt your growth?

Maybe not.

In fact, maybe it will make you
taller!

Check this out . . .

For the past couple of years, John
Wood has been doing a special
training program to build his bones
to their maximum.

He's been getting regular DEXA tests
to see how it works - and the tests
show that he's increased his bone
mass enormously as a result of the
special training program.

But he's also done something else that
is pretty remarkable.

In fact, something that many people
would tell you is impossible.

After he began following his special
bone strength program, John began
to grow taller.

In his most recent check-up, he was
measured again - and he's grown a
full inch taller.

From 6'3" to 6'4".

So if anyone tells you that weight
training will stunt your growth, tell
them about John Wood and his bone
strength program.

As always, thanks for reading, and
have a great day. if you train today,
make it a good one!

Yours in strength,

Brooks Kubik

P.S. You can learn more about John
Wood's Bone Strength Program
right here:

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