Unfortunately our youth is very desperate about developing muscles (biceps,abdominal packs) leading to ex tensor muscle pain/spasm , shoulder muscle tearing due to poor muscle conditioning and lack of knowledge of recruiting right muscles appropriately.Early weight lifting regime is hazardous to health
In my view knowledge of age appropriate exercise regime should be given at school level .
It is very important to educate users of the gym on the essence of following resistance training appropriate for their age. There are loads of evidences on the long-term effects of training overload especially among the young athletes. More education on the appropriate way develop strength and apply self in the gym should receive the utmost attention it requires.
First of all, I think educating youth on what is appropriate with exercise program increases the likelihood of doing exercise correctly. I think youth want to learn and we need to encourage them to learn about what is the right way to do exercise and what is the wrong way to do exercise.
Education of youth in appropriate resistance exercise protocols is necessary. From experience with my own college-aged children, it begins with upskilling of physical education teachers who teach weight lifting courses in middle school and high school. Furthermore, social media has a hazardous influence on the misinformation of youth on appropriate exercise regimens.
I have worked with a range of youth athletes 10-18 years of age. In my experience and talking with CSCS's at the college level, the main emphasis to teach our younger athletes isn't the lifts they will be doing in the collegiate setting, but the different ways the body can move. Educating them on multiple planes of movement is crucial for their continued development. In addition, covering the basics like a hip-hinge, and proper technique allows them to excel as they graduate to more structured lifting programs.
I think the root of this problem is due to unconscious staffing in fitness centers. The trainers in this center leave a lot of young people under the wrong influence by taking the wrong steps in directing many young people without having sufficient and significant scientific knowledge.
As a scientist who's been lifting for years now, I have a slightly different opinion.
A training regime must be directed at the person's goals and experience, not at the person's age. The main problem of inexperienced lifters (young or not) that I have observed is a lack of knowledge in what is effective or not.
Most of the programs they follow are actually undertraining them rather than overtraining them and complex/compound exercises that should be the core of every program are actually more often avoided due to fear of injury.
Thus I agree that we need better education in school and better staff at the gym, but there is more to that than simply reducing the risk of performing the exercises incorrectly. Poor overall programming is actually the main factor that leads to injuries.