When a youth is well supervised during the strength training process, they are at no greater risk than in any other youth sport or activity (Dahab and McCambridge, 2009). There have been several cases of growth plate injuries during the process of weight lifting, but the injuries have been caused by improper techniques or pushing yourself with heavy weights without adequate adult supervision. For example, as shown below in Figure 1, a 13-year-old boy used a heavy barbell to attempt an overhead press, but when he lost control, it resulted in injury to the distal radius where the cartilage of growth (Faigenbaum, & Myer,