{"id":3973,"date":"2021-04-04T21:14:31","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T01:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextgenerationtrainingcenter.com\/?p=3973"},"modified":"2021-04-04T21:14:31","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T01:14:31","slug":"safe-for-athletes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextgenpersonaltraining.com\/safe-for-athletes\/","title":{"rendered":"Weightlifting For Youth Athletes: Is it Safe?"},"content":{"rendered":"
There are certain things to keep in mind when training youth athletes, such as the shifting of their center of gravity with growth spurts, muscular imbalances, and the tightening of the muscles\/tendons. That being said, weightlifting is something that needs to be implemented into all youth athletes sporting regiment in order to decrease the chance of injury down the road – or even right around the corner!<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Weightlifting For Youth Athletes: Is it Safe? With today’s world of endless competition, there has been an increase in weightlifting for youth athletes. Is this good for the athletes or can it be detrimental for their long-term health? According to the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA), \u201cclinicians, coaches, and exercise scientists now agree that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2768,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nextgenpersonaltraining.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3973"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nextgenpersonaltraining.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nextgenpersonaltraining.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nextgenpersonaltraining.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nextgenpersonaltraining.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nextgenpersonaltraining.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nextgenpersonaltraining.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nextgenpersonaltraining.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nextgenpersonaltraining.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nextgenpersonaltraining.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}