2. What is Muscular Endurance and How to Improve it

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In this video we talk about the definition of muscular endurance, what are the benefits of muscular endurance and how to improve it.

What is Muscular Endurance?
Talking about Endurance most people often refer to cardiovascular endurance, which is how long can your heart function in a physical activity before your get out of breath. However there is another form of endurance that is very important and is not that well appreciated. It is called muscular endurance, which is defined as a sustained amount of repetitive force generation against resistance, before your muscles get tired and cannot work anymore.

To really appreciate this concept picture yourself performing a strength exercise for a number of repetitions, as you perform more repetitions, your muscles will start to get tired and lactic acid will start to build up. Muscular endurance of your muscles will be defined by the repetition where lactic acid build up in your muscles is so strong that you are no longer able to perform any more reps.

As an example when you see someone perform 100 push ups, they are basically building up their muscular endurance.

Why is Muscular Endurance Important
In everyday life, most of the activities and chore are performed over many repetitions rather than just one time. Be it raking the leaves, or cutting that log, or rowing the boat or carrying a baby, you need to use your muscles over a long period of time. Having Muscular Endurance hence helps you in performing these activities easily.

In sports, muscle endurance helps you in lasting longer. It is muscle endurance that helps you in running jumping and swinging for longer periods of time than your opponents

Beyond these performance benefits, muscular endurance also helps in preventing overuse injuries. Muscle Endurance training makes your bones and joints stronger. This enables them to withstand repeated stresses of our daily activities.
How to Develop Muscle Endurance
To improve endurance, just like improving any other fitness parameter, you must challenge this system. How can you challenge your muscular endurance? By making a muscle work for longer time. This is done by increasing the number of repetitions. Generally speaking, an exercise must be performed over more than 15 repetitions to really challenge your muscle endurance

One thing to keep in mind, while developing muscular endurance, you need some amount of base of strength. So if you have never strength trained before, building muscle endurance will prove to be a challenging task. Infact one of the best ways to improve muscular endurance is to improve your strength. As an example it must easier for someone to perform 15 repetitions of squats at 50KG if they have a 1 rep max squat of 200KG than someone who only has a 1 rep max squat of 100KG.

You may refer to our previous video on how to build basic strength if you want to learn more on this. Typically for improving strength loading more weight is more effective than adding repetitions.

This concludes our video on muscle endurance. For next week, we will talk about cardiovascular fitness and how to improve your cardiovascular system.

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Thanks! Great video and easy to follow.

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I use muscular endurance on my jogging exercise. Where I live I have a steep hill that I can run up to so to make it harder I brought a 20kg weighted vest and put on some 50oz boxing gloves on and jog up it without stopping. Another method I use is put on my weighted vest and put a plank position(press up position) it can be hard but the end result is magnificent ^_^

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Carrying 80kg battle load with 3.5kg gun in ur hand

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How do P.E. teachers find these videos

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The most important part to losing weight is diet of course, the hardest part is staying consistent

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Can you build muscular endurance without gaining weight? I want to improve it for my 800m race but I don’t want to gain weight

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I used to know only endurance of heart through exercise like running

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What about when you do weighted calisthenics? What is your educated number of reps guess?

For instance, weighted pushups (wearing a 30lb weight best).

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You need endurance in mixed martial arts fighting

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