Growth plates and muscle attachment - why puppies thrive when exercise stress is AGE APPROPRIATE... Go to Source "Immature, developing bodies cannot endure excessive amounts of exercise stress without suffering longterm, negative consequences"Normally a picture is worth a 1000 words - I believe I'll up the ante! Full disclosure - the tomography pic is from a study using guinea pigs but I think the info is still on point (and the moment I can find the same evidence based study using puppies I'll switch out the link!)What can we see here? Immature, developing bone lacks the structural integrity (aka: density) needed to withstand multiple stresses from exercise / activity and over-developed muscle (see the blog "#1 and #2 injury factors")I think a
