Training Principles of Gaining Muscular Endurance
Fitness Tip
Issue 64: Part One:
Lifting heavy weights with low repetitions will develop strength.
Dynamic muscular endurance is the opposite. You must do higher numbers
of repetitions and with lower resistance.
Dynamic muscle endurance is the muscle's ability to contract and relax repeatedly. An example of an exercise requiring dynamic endurance is the push-up. At some point, the muscles will become fatigued, and you will no longer be able to perform them.
Issue 65: Part Two
A muscle's ability to remain contracted for a long period of time is
called static muscle endurance. It is usually measured by the length
of time you can hold a body position.
For example using the pushup, if we measure the length of time a person can remain in the flexed arm position, we are measuring static endurance. This means lowering the body in the push up position until the arms are in a ninety-degree angle parallel to the floor and holding this position as long as possible. Some activities requiring static endurance include handstands or standing in line for hours for concert tickets.
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