Strength training may boost kids' activity: study

By Genevra Pittman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Whether children can and should participate in strength training has been a contentious issue. Researchers randomly assigned one group of 10- to 14-year-olds to strength train twice a week and others to go to their typical gym classes. And boys who did strength training had upped their weekly exercise by 10 percent. "The initial idea was that training increases children's motivation to be physically active," said Dr. Udo Meinhardt.



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