When you finally welcome your 10 week old puppies, please keep this image in mind. Their bones aren’t even touching yet. They walk so beautifully with big floppy legs and wobbly movements because their joints are made entirely of cartilage, muscles, tendons and ligaments covered in skin. Nothing fits properly or has any real grip yet.
When you run them excessively or don’t limit their exercise to keep them from doing too much during this time, you’re not giving them the chance to grow properly. Each big jump or bounding and excited run causes impacts between the bones.
In reasonable quantities, this is not problematic and it is normal wear and tear that will occur.
But when you let the puppy jump off the couch or bed, take him for long walks, you damage this forming joint. When you let the puppy move on slippery tiles, you damage the joint.
You only get the chance to grow them once. A well-built body is something that comes from excellent breeding and education. BOTH, not just one.
As an adult, you will have the rest of your life to spend playing and engaging in high-impact exercise. So keep him calm while he’s still little and give him the gift that can only be given once.