1. American College of Sports Medicine. (n.d.). Mythbusting youth resistance training. ACSM_CMS.
Background: This article discusses common myths about youth weightlifting and provides evidence-based information on how strength training can be safe and beneficial for children when properly supervised.
How I used it: Societal roles exist as stereotypes, and when I make the claim that girls are usually more steered towards more feminine activities, I use this article to show that both genders receive generally the same benefits. This helps them understand from a logical perspective that there shouldn’t be a difference, so making the comparison from boy and girl to adult and child helps connect their understanding.
Background: This article presents a summary of findings from the American Psychological Association’s chief scientist regarding the potential impacts of social media use on childrens mental health, both harms and benefits.
How I used it: Since this was used in the causal rewrite to determine why people generally fear monger weightlifting, I boiled down the reasoning of injury through this scientific article. If injuries are as a result to bad decision making, then it can be connected to that, and not weightlifting.
Background: Similar to the previous reference, this article focuses on the effects of social media on children, specifically how self worth is tied to physical appearance, which leads to eating disorders.
How I used it: The growing perspective that your physical appearance is what makes up your self worth is growing. I used this perspective to show that social media has a bad effect on our younger generation. The same is reflected upon weightlifting, if general body standards are harmed then the perspective of weightlifting could be seen as worse as well.
Background: This article provides an overview of Jean Piaget’s theory of cognitive development, stating his four stages of cognitive development and explaining their significance in understanding children’s intellectual growth.
How I used it: When talking about the mental expectations of a child, this article breaks down childrens mental growth as they develop. This is direct evidence against the idea that children on average can’t fathom complex concepts and the consequences of disregarding danger.
Background: This article discusses the safety of weightlifting for children, exploring the appropriate age to start lifting, the benefits, and potential risks of resistance training for younger individuals.
How I used it: After making a claim that there is no found evidence which supports that lifting can put adolescents bones into a state that’s prone to fracture I linked this. The most beneficial part of this article that supports the claim I made was that children who lifted overall had stronger bones when reaching adulthood versus untrained individuals.
6. Meur, Y.L. (2018). Youth resistance training. National Strength and Conditioning Association.
Background: This resource from the National Strength and Conditioning Association offers a detailed infographic and explanation about youth resistance training, emphasizing safe practices and the positive impact of resistance training on children and adolescents.
How I used it: I use this guideline of weightlifting as a source of connection between the audience and reader. This pictograph helps release the ease or tension, so weightlifting isn’t seen as such a negative light according to the reader, the pictograph gives guidelines for children’s lifting.
Background: This article examines the impact of repeated sub-concussive impacts in contact sports, particularly how these repetitive blows affect brain cognition and integrity. The authors argue that such impacts may lead to long-term cognitive issues, despite not resulting in a full concussion. This research is crucial for understanding the risks of contact sports, particularly for children, and underscores the need for preventive measures in sports involving head contact
How I used it: I used this to demonstrate that if normal youth sports have injuries that almost result in full concussion, it seems odd that weightlifting is fear mongered. Considering lifting is a slow repetition movement that is repeated with muscle memory.
Background: This research paper discusses the scientific foundation for resistance training in young people, addressing how such training can enhance strength and health without adverse effects when done appropriately. It also mentions the injury rates found specifically for powerlifting per 100 hours.
How I used it: After juts finishing a statement about how another study found bone density to stronger with children who lifting, I clarify the next myth as wrong. This research study shows what the injury rates are for powerlifting per 100 hours, in comparison to soccer it helps the reader equalize the comparison (by hours) so they see risk weightlifting doesn’t have.
Background: This study explores injury rates in children participating in the more common youth sports, examining the frequency and types of injuries that occur and the implications for safety in youth sports.
How I used it: After just explaining how injury rates in powerlifting are so minimal (0.055 per 100 hours) under proper supervision, it can’t helped but be seen as beneficial when an officiated game with supervision (soccer) has over 2545x the injuries.
Background: This article from the American Academy of Pediatrics outlines the benefits and risks of strength training for children and adolescents, providing guidelines and recommendations for safe practice in youth fitness programs.
How I used it: In my rebuttal I made it clear that the argument my worthy opponent uses, is a double edged sword. While saying that 40 to 70% of injuries are from strain, related to overexertion shows a lack of emotional control (so children shouldn’t lift,) it doesn’t explain that these injuries are at home, which displays it’s actually the lack of supervision or guidance, showing why immaturity isn’t the main factual cause for injury.
Counterintuitive Fall 2024 
Every How I Used It explanation makes clear reference to a particular bit of information or evidence that was helpful to your arguments, exactly as an Annotated Bibliography should.