REVISION:
My research essay will take a close inspection of whether lifting weights as a child will affect your natural height development and if it’s more dangerous than other children’s sports. Many parents to this day will swear by the fact that they think if you lift weights as a child, it will harm your growth plates and stunt your growth, that the risk of injury is so much greater than traditional sports. However from what I’ve personally observed, this is more of a “feeling” with all the studies that have come out in recent years about this topic.
Source 1 – https://checkbiotech.org/age-safe-kids-start-weight-lifting/
Background: This article explores the discussion of how weight lifting for children being deemed dangerous as a society is completely unfounded. It puts great emphasis that weight lifting workloads can specifically be managed even more than other sports due to the fact you can altar and change loads of weight, reps, etc.
How I intend to use it? It will be explained in my research essay why this particular article is relevant for two major points that will be brought up. It will mention how bone fractures is perceived as one of the many high risk factors of weight lifting, when the opposite is true. And that neuromuscular adaptation is something that can be done with anything, weight lifting is no different.
Source 2 – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5532191/
Background:
Introduce key terms for the audience to have a better grasp of understanding how weight training affects your body. Once that’s understood it’s relevance becomes prevalent when you take that, and it apply to children relationship to it. There are personal practical recommendations to children that can really be applied to anyone.
How I intend to use it?
If this paper mentions how these tactics that are applied for childrens weightlifting can be applied to anyone, it helps differentiate the child from weightlifting. What do I mean? I mean that even if they are children, they are human and we all have that adaptibility.
Source 3 – https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100330115925.htm
Background:
Weightlifting injuries occur mostly in age groups of 13-24. The most common reason for injury, relating to weightlifting is improper use and dropping a weight on someone else. Rate of injury increases when the age group is about 45, from weighted machines.
How I intend to use it?
I find it necessary to include that even if this information seems conflicting at first, to my claim. Having the reason for why injuries occur in adolescent boys being caused from klutziness, or improper use helps prove that weight lifting isn’t inherently dangerous to the body. It’s a lack of proper education of how to use these machines. Having men that are above 45 be injured from controlled machines shows more of their weakness to adaptability, whereas children are the opposite.
Source 4 – https://www.strengthlog.com/strength-training-for-children-and-adolescents-benefits-risks-and-practical-recommendations/
Background:
The rates of powerlifting injuries are substantially low in children. It can get as low as 0.0055 injuries per 100 hours of training. Due to the manageable loads of weightlifting it is deemed much less dangerous than any other general sport.
How I intend to use it?
Since it’s been established injuries do in fact occur, but only due to untrained or uneducated children misproperly using equipment. It has to be mentioned what does occur if you train with proper load, technique and frequency. The reader needs to be helped to understand the difference between injury of accident versus trained individuals.
Source 5 –https://www.livestrong.com/article/430166-can-lifting-weights-when-young-stunt-your-growth/
Background: It’s an outright myth that growth plates can be so seriously affected from weightlifting that your height can be permanently altered. General skeleton and bone health is seriously improved from weightlifting.
How I intend to use it?
In order to dispel any last qualms, I return to my original claim after previous iterations of the topic. But directly stating with evidence that there’s proof that bone density becomes stronger later in life if you lift weights as a younger person. Growth plates will be mentioned in the statement, it would take serious non supervision and consistent improper use to cause any injuries.
Counterintuitive Fall 2024 
I disagree that we should be surprised that exercise, however leisurely, is beneficial to health, ChefRat.
I WOULD BE surprised if leisurely walking were overall MORE beneficial than running, but I think that’s untrue. I’m going to again encourage you to consider whether walking and running the same distance require exactly the same amount of work and expend the same amount of energy.
You may resist that recommendation, but you’ll need to substitute something equally audacious to get my attention.
You appear to have engaged with your topic more now than you had before our conference, ChefRat, and I appreciate that you’re starting to compile evidence of the benefits of running versus walking, but I have two overall reactions to what you’ve presented here.
This is beautiful work, ChefRat, on an entirely appropriate topic. I’m glad you’re working from personal knowledge and that your goal is to dispel myths. Once a myth takes hold, it sounds like “common knowledge” while the truth, because it has no champions, gets no traction. Be that champion.
The other aspect of “common knowledge” is that, once it becomes ingrained in the cultural consciousness, it feels intuitive. That means anything that challenges “gut feelings” or “the obvious” is counterintuitive.
Go get ’em!
Causal Argument HW
Single Cause with a Single Effect (X causes Y)
“Regular exposure to vapes will cause respiratory issues”
Single Cause with Several Effects (X causes Y and Z)
“The rise of Social Media among teenagers and other age groups will cause an increase in social anxiety/skills and unrealistic beauty standards.”
Several Causes for a Single Effect (Both X and Y cause Z)
“A persons diet consistently containing a high caloric surplus, on top of a sedentary lifestyle cause obesity.”
A Causal Chain (X causes Y, which causes Z)
“Chronic stress can lead to poor sleep quality which will then cause a weaker immune system”
Causation Fallacy (X does not cause Y)
“Just because children who play violent videogames, tend to be more violent than other children, does not necessarily mean that those games are the catalyst for their violent personality.”