Learn To Boost Your Muscular Strength and Endurance

May 23, 2012 by admin
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Article by Steven Stones

Learn To Boost Your Muscular Strength and Endurance – Health – Fitness

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Muscular strength and muscular endurance are two important components of physical fitness and should be a part of your exercise routine, muscular endurance is very important for people playing sports and who have to sustain an activity for long periods of time.

It is a crucial element of fitness for athletes such as distance runners, swimmers, cyclists and rowers. It’s also important for success in many team sports like soccer, field hockey and Australian rules football.

Muscle-strengthening exercises are likely to improve your stamina and your energy. Equally important, they increase resistance to injury. People with strong muscles are less likely to suffer everyday muscle aches and pains. They also have less strain on their hearts.

Strength can be measured and developed in several ways, each of which is highly specific.

Endurance exercises like running or cycling make your muscles stronger and less likely to get tired. This sort of exercise doesn’t only benefit your skeletal muscles. Endurance exercise isn’t, however, the best type of exercise to do if you want to make your muscles bigger. You can increase muscle size by doing resistance exercises. Resistance exercise involves using your muscles to move an extremely heavy load.

How the strength will be used should dictate the type of training and testing.

Muscular strength training consists of maximum muscle tension with minimal repetitions. When lifting weights or using resistance exercise equipment, you should ensure that the contractions of your muscles are rhythmic.

Muscular endurance training involves lifting light weights with more repetitions, typically 8 to 12 per exercise. You should do this form of muscle training at least two days a week, and you should do 8 to 10 exercises that work various muscle groups.All types of exercise involve using your muscles to generate movement. Regular exercise can increase muscle size, strength and endurance. But not all exercise produces the same effect.

Resistance training should be an integral part of a fitness program and of a sufficient intensity to enhance strength, muscular endurance and maintain fat-free mass. Regular strength training will result in improved body composition. As you train, your levels of lean body mass will increase, which in turn will reduce your body fat percentage.Specificity Adaptations to resistance training are specific to the muscles and training methods used: either for muscular strength, muscular hypertrophy or muscular endurance (these are discussed later in this lens) Remember the S.A.I.D principle: ‘Specific Adaptation to Imposed Demand’Overload In Order to challenge the muscles you need to work it harder than in everyday life. The degree of extra challenge depends upon the aims and fitness level of the individual. Some fitness gains can be made with comparatively small levels of overload to the system and this would be appropriate for low fit or inactive clients.At the other end of the scale, highly motivated, well-conditioned individuals may take overload to a stage of complete muscular failure, thus stimulating greater fitness gains. Again, there is a continuum to consider when deciding on the degree of overload. The job of the instructor is to determine the fitness level and the aims of their clients, and adapt the exercise demands accordingly.Progressive ResistanceAs individuals adapt to a workload and can complete it without feeling challenged , the next step is to increase the workload in order to progress. With respect to muscular training, it is considered more beneficial to increase the resistance once you can achieve 25 repetitions, rather than keep increasing the repetitions. This, however, would not apply if an individual wanted to be able to perform high repetitions on any given exercise for specific reasons, as may be the case for anyone training for a cross-training fitness challenege.

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