Muscular Endurance

Muscular Fitness

Muscular Fitness comprises power, a skill-related component of fitness, strength, and muscular endurance. All three components of muscular Fitness are essential to health and good performance.

Muscular endurance is the ability of a muscle or muscles to repeat a movement many times or hold a position without stopping to rest.

· Improving your muscular endurance allows you to increase your physical activity. When you increase your muscular endurance, you can do more physical work because you can move faster and longer. Repetition is the key. Muscular endurance exercises are performed with lighter resistance than muscular strength exercises.

Benefits

1. It improves athletic performance 

2. It helps to improve aerobic endurance 

3. It makes performing daily tasks easier 

4. It helps to prevent injuries  

5. It keeps your heart healthy 

6. It maintains your posture and general stability 

7. It helps with weight loss and body weight maintenance 

8. It improves your body composition 

9. It keeps your muscles and bones healthy and strong 

10. It improves your confidence and self-image 

11. It improves your mood and sleep quality 

12. It helps to prevent health-related conditions

Types of Training

Weight training with free weights or machines is an ideal way to train for upper body and lower body muscular endurance.

Circuit training can easily be made sport-specific, and each exercise should be performed with high reps for muscular endurance. 

Using your body weight, otherwise known as calisthenics, is an incredibly effective way to add resistance for increasing muscular endurance and is the most portable and convenient method of training as it requires no equipment.

Isometric exercises increase muscular strength, stamina, and stability by activating many muscle fibers in a single static contraction. Isometric contractions occur when muscle tension increases but remains at a constant length, filling muscle tissue with blood and creating metabolic stress

Unit 7 Skilled Activity: Push-Ups

Watch the video below to learn about the skill of the week!

Additional Unit 7 Exercises

NONE! Have a great week of workouts. This week, focus on increasing intensity and speed during your workouts.

Workout #1 – Push-Ups

Push Up Workout #2 – Cardio

Push Up Workout #3 – HIIT