Why Strength Endurance is CRUCIAL for Performance (How to Build Work Capacity!)

Training for strength endurance (and thus work capacity) may just be the most important form of strength training, when it comes to real-world performance. If you aren't doing some metcon and varying your rep-ranges, you are leaving gains on the table!

While max strength is certainly useful and can translate to impressive physical prowess, we more often are tasked with exerting force repeatedly. Whether you're a martial artist, swimmer, athlete, construction worker, rock climber, or anything else... you need to be able to generate power over and over again without fatigue. This is strength endurance.

And better yet: a bigger work capacity will mean you can train harder and longer at the gym, resulting in more strength and more size over time.

While you get some strength endurance as a natural consequence of any resistance training, this is limited. To really build an impressive work capacity, you need to hit the slow-twitch fibers, and you need to build cardio to match. Metabolic conditioning (metcon), and training with higher rep ranges are just two ways to do this.

This video goes deep on the best ways to build strength endurance for any sport, or life, with conditioning and smart training. Enjoy!

[JaxBlade]

Honestly Adam PREACHING I remember years ago being so surprised when I first started at how many benefits there were to training for strength endurance & its honestly one of my fav ways to train & keeps my Joints in tip top shape too. haha Great video man!

[MarcoPeyrano]

I never cared about strength endurance until I started wrestling, pure strength can help a lot with takedowns but if you cannot keep it up for a long period of time, it becomes useless.

[Oli_Thompson]

Your dedication to toplessness, even when it's this bloody cold, is an inspiration to us all!

[jochemgies]

Hi, 13 yr old here. You've really helped me progress in my fitness yourney, love your video's!

[Benutzername]

By FAR my favourite fitness/training yter. Please never stop making these videos. You are contributing so much.

[ringsfitness]

As an ex-wrestler (the olympic one, not the wwe), I learned early on that basically you can defeat any stronger opponent in that sport if your endurance is better. Two times three minutes is very long, and it happened all the time, a body builder or any other sportsman came to train to us, who was really strong after one minute or so they were like a dummy for movies because they couldnt maintain their strentgh.

[MtlCstr]

I found that the best way to train for strength endurance is long days of hard physical labor. One of my favorites is processing firewood. Digging trenches is another good one. It's hard to schedule days like that regularly if you have a sedentary job though.

[markhatfield]

There was an example given of hiring high school kids from the football team to help with bales (harvesting). They were strong enough to not just pick up bales and put them on the truck but could throw them across it if desired but by 10 a.m. they were exhausted . The job requires you to do it all day and again the next day. Their training was for explosive high strength movement but not for high repetition (endurance).

[saugatphuyal]

Very recently I was able to bench press (64kg) at bodyweight of (57kg)for one rep. I'm very happy because I was able to bench press more than my own bodyweight I know I know it's pretty weak but still it has brought me happiness

Anyways good video ✌🤘

[ahmaddeham_]

5:06 slow rep
5:41 isometrics
6:08 long dropset

[davidoftheforest]

yea man, I was doing 500 military burpees without stopping, running for an hour non stop, ruck marching with 60lbs 10+ kilometers....I thought I was in shape....then I got into forestry; timber cruising. I was made humble VERY quickly. Also, I've come to realize that LOOKING like you're in great shape doesn't equate to muscular endurance. 6-10-12 hours of climbing, humping up and down hills, balancing on logs, swinging an axe and a machete, twisting an increment bore into trees, for 10 days straight. It's a completely different kind of physical conditioning

[xjet]

This is great stuff... such a welcome relief from the "progressive overload, time under tension and buy my supplements" approach of so many YT fitness/strength channels 🙂

[marcchrys]

When I was a rockclimber, training endurance (e.g. staying on a climbing wall as long as possible.., to delay and work through the dreaded "pump") was much more useful in real climbing than being able to perform a one armed pullup.

[porqpine]

This is why I schedule so much base training before any kind of strength peak. Doing many repeated sets of 8-10 reps on squats builds work capacity and strength endurance like crazy

[cameronbosshart]

You're a freaking wizard, was literally just thinking of how to program this type of adaptation to my training! Great video dude!

[FitLabb]

I’ve always included some slow rep sets in my training as a form of progressive overload, & as just one method to improve my strength endurance.

PS: Congrats on the sponsorship from Magic Spoon! High quality brand & glad to see you getting opportunities like that.

[zaydencarman]

Man your videos keep getting better and better! I train my strength endurance by doing farmers walks with huge logs and walk for about 1-2 minutes and switch to lizard crawls and crawl forward/back again for about 1-2 minutes then switch to extremely high repetitions of push ups, squats, and pull ups then run a long distance or heavy bag 2 minutes then I’m done and drink a lot of water in between the exercises awesome job! 💪 I’ll keep supporting your channel whenever I can!

[christopherellis]

At 72, you inspire me to keep at it. Lots of common sense advice. Thank you.

[jackflex]

Been consuming this content for a while now, never gets old and still learning something new each time. Keep it up.

[phil_]

I hope you know how much of a blessing your channel is to so many people man! Anyone can just come here and get quality information about a host of fitness topics, basically for free. And with timestamps to help the viewer focus on exactly what they want to know. That's truly wonderful bro!