,LOCAL TRENDS:

More teen boys pumping iron to lift egos

'. Scrawny teen boys are hitting the gyms as early as age '12to impress girls'andjoin the popular crowd. But exper~s

. warn that teenagers ofteh lift more than they can hant;fle.

monster .... Now, he oozes self' confidence and he's 100 percent

different." .

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South Florida gyiIls are bulking up thei'r bottom iin~swith teens like Johnson, some as young as 12,

.	who are counting ona more chis-

BY JASMINE KRIPAlANI

eled physique to impress girls and

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JUstin Johnson was a slouchy,

Weight-lifting can be healthy at

scrawny, droopy-faced I5-year-old any: age, with the, right attitude and who lacked self confidence flnd the right guidance. Butdoctm;sari.d kept to himself. Even his mother psychOlogists warn that teens who

thought so.

'take it to extreme~' cah pay a fat'

So Nancy Marcotte asked her higher price than the cost of a g}rm

personal trainer to help, hoping membership.'

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. that pumping iro'll would also

In 2002, the U.S,· Consumer

pump up ,her son's ego. . .

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'~He just always w~ed with a . reported that nationally 23,765 men slump to his shoulders," Marcotte . younger' thari 21 were' taken. to

said.

emergency roomsfoi:' weight lift"

. "Within six months I saw a dif-

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GIMME ONE MORE REP: Personal trainer, Michelle Valladares guides Justin Johnson,l?; at GetCyced! Fitness in Sunrise.

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