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Quote Originally Posted by GutShot
my take on this issue is that its total bullsh*t. Bodybuilders (pros) have been training since their teens and some are 6ft+ .
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Weights will NOT stunt your growth .
People speaking in such absolute statements when they ABSOLUTELY DO NOT KNOW is one of the things that really irritates me.

Saying that lifting does or does not stunt your growth because of one (or even a hundred) examples of tall (or short) weight lifters is total crap. The fact is that nobody knows. There are a lot of doctors with far more education and far higher IQ's than you that would disagree with you. I'm not saying that they're right. I'm saying that intelligent people can disagree about the issue and at least leave room for the possibility that they are wrong. In lieu of hard evidence to prove either side of the argument, there's no good reason not to err on the safe side and lift with lighter weights for the time being.
Weightlifters in the olympic are short - it can be because there parents was short or because they took steroids that stunt their growth.