My 10 year old daughter wants a six pack. She is exercising 5 times a week and is starting to eat healthy. Shes 5ft 1 and is trying really hard.
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She is 10 years old. She hasn't even hit puberty yet and her muscles are not developed properly. At child of 10 should not be so focused on her body and appearance. Who is she planning to show her six-pack to exactly? Surely she will not be walking about wearing a tiny little top and shorts so people can see.
You need to adjust her perception of what is good and what is bad. She is still a little girl. The fact is women lack the testosterone required to build muscle mass in the same way men do. She can exercise until she keels over, she is not going to get a six pack. She end up hurting herself though if she is not doing the exercises correctly, Building muscle up for women is hard - you need cardio, serious weight training and a highly controlled diet with the emphasis on certain food groups. Children should not eat the same diet as an adult female trying to gain muscle. Your girl has completely different dietary requirements.
At her age, she should be running about being active not doing weight training. She needs cardio excercise for her heart and lung capacity. She should be fit and able to run about non-stop.
If you want her to develop anything at all, I would suggest you aim for self-esteem and self-confidence because she is too young to be concerned with her appearance. If I were you I would put a stop to this whole six-pack issue because she is going to fail - miserably. Don't let her slog her guts out when we know what she wants is not what she is going to get. Little girls don't have six packs and somebody should tell her that before her confidence takes another blow.
You are her Mum but you are also a woman, let us not forget that. How do you feel about your body? Do you look in the mirror and really love what you see or do you, like the most of us wish you had a smaller bum or bigger boobs, a smaller waist perhaps. How does it make you feel when every picture you see in a magazine or paper show a perfect model with a perfect body? At least we know all these pictures and images are perfect because they are digitally altered. The woman in the photo doesn't look that way in real life. And your little girl is already on the downward spiral - she is busy trying to change the look of her body to be the same as an image she's seen. How sad is that?