honestly, the best one is gonna be the one he actually drinks.

As a kid, he just needs calories. Protein drink is not sufficient though. He needs to understand that working out means eating more food, if he refuses to eat more food, he shouldn’t be allowed to workout.

Whatever he is willing to eat, double every portion. The more he wants to work out the more food he has to eat. Protein shakes are not sufficient to build all of his body, he needs all the complex nutrients for all parts of his body.

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Also, recovery days and rest is just as important as working out, if he’s working out and running every day, he’s not giving his body any time to heal and grow.

He will wind up hurting himself somehow, and that injury will persist for a lifetime.

Again agree, I’ve told him he cannot simply work out or run every single day!

He won’t or doesn’t want to listen to me…what the heck do I know I’m just a mom 😩

lol, maybe it’s time to take away his phone or something if he won’t listen to his mother and respect her knowledge.

That’s exactly what I’m now thinking!

My wife didn’t want to listen to me when it came to some of this, so she got a personal trainer, the third party expert knowledge was helpful for her to appreciate things. Maybe signing him up with a personal trainer to guide him would be better than him just thinking he knows it all or what he learns from friends/internet.

Yeah someone else more experienced needs to tell him, since apparently mom doesn’t know what she’s talking about 🤦‍♀️

rather him do things with an expert to guide him than just working himself too hard and starving himself and wind up getting hurt… positive feedback vs negative works better for my dog lol

It is a very good idea to consider involving a third party to advise your child. You have a specialist, your son feels that you give him space and you avoid friction on the subject with him.

Indeed 💜

That’s what I’m thinking, no eating enough no working out!

I have advised him he needs to replenish his body especially after a workout and a run, he claims he’s not hungry…ffs 🤦‍♀️

He may have anorexic tendencies and not seeing himself in the mirror accurately.

And eating isn’t because he’s hungry, it’s because he needs fuel to workout, so it doesn’t matter if he’s hungry, he shouldn’t workout if he doesn’t eat the appropriate amount of calories.

Not sure what’s going on, maybe a ‘female’ he wants to impress or social media pressures but I will be getting to the bottom of it!