IMPROVING MUSCULAR ENDURANCE

IMPROVING MUSCULAR ENDURANCE

Again, this is an easy one. In simple words, it is your ability to lift (or move) a weight for a specific amount of repetitions before your muscles get tired and fail. A simple example of muscle endurance (combined with cardiorespiratory endurance, of course), are marathon runners.

As far as weight lifting is concerned, muscular endurance can be improved in the exact opposite way from muscular strength. This means that you have to lift a weight for 12-20 times and the weight must be challenging for you to lift 12-20 times.This means that it should be at about 50% of your one - rep max. What this does is that it makes the muscle get used to lifting that weight many times, so the next time (or after some workouts, to be accurate) it will be easier for it to sustain this effort for a longer period of time, so you will actually improve your muscular endurance. it is that simple!!

After the explanation of each one of the components is completed, I will give you examples of workouts that improve them. For now, I will also post videos showing the correct technique of some popular exercises.