The Worlds Strongest Boy

[JoolsToo]

Anyone see the trailer for this programme - I thinks its coming on this week. When I saw it I thought they'd superimposed a childs head on a mans body!

It looks horrifying! A little lad with the body of a body builder - shouldn't pre-empt the programme but I can't think of any good reason why a child that age would want a body like that! talk about child abuse!

There was one picture in particular at the very beginning which made me feel very sick. It was the one where he was obviously little more than a toddler and someone had tied some weights to him. Horrible.

I didn't see what happened wrt the tarzan film but felt that the film company were being hugely irresponsible in encouraging this child and his mother.

This was awful the parents were stretching their poor children's muscles and limbs from 6 months old (not in a gentle baby massage type way either) then encouraging weight lifting in a toddler. My DS1 took an interest in my DH's weights when he was a toddler, the last thing we would have done was encourage him, I told DH to make sure they were put away very safely so there was no way he would get hold of them. It also said that when he was 6 he only had 1% body fat and with that sort of level body fat people can die. That poor boy (and his sister if she is being treated similarly) what did they give birth to a child or a product?

coppertop apparently Disney is interested. Are we going to have young children down the gym wanting to look like him now. I'm all for children exercising, swimming, running, playing, cycling, all the fun stuff but don't believe that weight lifting should be on the agenda for a toddler.

Disney?? OMG! Are they completely insane?

Haven't see it, though I was shocked at the TV adds, I have heard many times that if you start weight lifting before the end of puberty you don't grow as tall as you are meant to be (common reason why teenagers are discouraged to do it _at least in my country) but with a 2 yrs old??? DG!!

What summed it up for me was when the personal trainer was commenting on the fact that Richard (little hercules!!) had got 'puffy' after a couple of months with no training and needed to get back in shape. He said 'when your physique is your livelihood' at which point I was shouting at the tv 'WHO'S LIVELIHOOD? HE'S 11 YEARS OLD FGS' As far as I could see the parents did no actual work themselves apart from 'promoting' their son and some dubious looking bodybuilding supplements. I thought there were laws against child labour.

It was truley awful. How about the way his mother was bending his sisters legs. That can't be right. I say Let kids be kids.