Powerlifting competition for youth?

[Lazarus52980]

As a few of you might know from previous postings of mine, I have been working on lifting with my now 7 year old for a while. He asked me the other day about why we were lifting and while we were discussing, I mentioned that some people compete in tournaments to see who can lift the most. He asked if he could participate in one...

I am not sure what I think of this idea, since we really don't do any sets less than 8, so he is not "trained" for 1RM's, plus I have not even been able to FIND a tournament for kids his age...

A quick search of this "internet" thing 🙂P) doesn't yield any results for kids that young. Do such tournaments even exist? Anyone have any info/experience with this?

 

[Pantlegz]

It's doubtful, the youngest I've seen is teen divisions. Even if you could find some it's not very likely that there would be anyone to compete against.

 

[surfsatwerk]

I was in a USAPL meet last Jan and there were some kids lifting.

 

[Pantlegz]

Apparently they do allow lifters as young as 8 to lift, or they're encouraged to.

"The USAPL encourages local meet directors to allow youths age 8 to 13 years to compete. The particulars may be found at this link:
http://www.usapowerlifting.com/programs/youth/index.shtml "