Squats Stun Growth?

felguard · Post by **felguard** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 1:48 am

I've always wondered, do squats stun your growth?

I've heard a few answers where they only stun your growth if you do it wrong, so does that mean that squats don't stun your growth if you do them correctly?

swanso5 · Post by **swanso5** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 3:01 am

no

i don't think doing them wrong will stunt growth but they will injure you

Boss Man · Post by **Boss Man** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 8:43 am

The only possible way that might happen, is if you're doing Squats at the ages of say 13, 14, 15, when Bone structures are not fully formed, because the compression the Spine, might possibly affect the posture of the Spinal Vertebrae, but apart from that, Squats injure you through poor technique. Stunted growth, unless possible the way I described, I think probably isn't possible from Squats.

felguard · Post by **felguard** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 3:34 pm

Boss Man wrote:The only possible way that might happen, is if you're doing Squats at the ages of say 13, 14, 15, when Bone structures are not fully formed, because the compression the Spine, might possibly affect the posture of the Spinal Vertebrae, but apart from that, Squats injure you through poor technique. Stunted growth, unless possible the way I described, I think probably isn't possible from Squats.

Thanks for the long awaited answer. I've always wondered about this ever since a kid.