MUSCULAR ENDURANCE Day to day activities requiring dynamic endurance are carrying groceries to your car, raking your yard, and playing several sets of tennis. A muscles 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 pushup 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 and standing in line for hours for concert tickets or rides at the midway. There are a wide variety of effective programs for developing muscular endurance. One of the most popular methods is circuit resistance training. This training takes place by moving from one station to the next, usually set up in a circle. At each station a different exercise is performed with high repetitions but low to moderate resistance. Fifteen seconds of rest is provided while changing stations. Approximately ten exercise stations are used, and the exerciser repeats the circuit two to three times. Many people are interested in endurance exercised because thy can take inches off of body measurements. Usually some strengthening and some changes in body contour occur. Also, endurance exercises speed up metabolism, and your body burns calories at a higher rate for several hours after the endurance exercise. Muscular endurance depends on the efficiency of the skeletal muscles and the nerves that control them. You can train for cardiovascular endurance by running, but if the leg muscles lack the muscular endurance to continue for more than a few minutes, you will not be able to run long enough to develop cardiovascular endurance. It is also important to remember that the training program for muscular endurance should resemble the activity for which the endurance is needed. Performing muscular endurance exercises with upper body muscles will not help improve the endurance of the leg muscles. Probably the best training program is performing the sport skill repeatedly AEROBIC ENDURANCE MUSCULAR STRENGTH MUSCULAR ENDURANCE FLEXIBILITY BODY COMPOSITION
MUSCULAR ENDURANCE Day to day activities requiring dynamic endurance are carrying groceries to your car, raking your yard, and playing several sets of tennis. A muscles 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 pushup 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 and standing in line for hours for concert tickets or rides at the midway. There are a wide variety of effective programs for developing muscular endurance. One of the most popular methods is circuit resistance training. This training takes place by moving from one station to the next, usually set up in a circle. At each station a different exercise is performed with high repetitions but low to moderate resistance. Fifteen seconds of rest is provided while changing stations. Approximately ten exercise stations are used, and the exerciser repeats the circuit two to three times. Many people are interested in endurance exercised because thy can take inches off of body measurements. Usually some strengthening and some changes in body contour occur. Also, endurance exercises speed up metabolism, and your body burns calories at a higher rate for several hours after the endurance exercise. Muscular endurance depends on the efficiency of the skeletal muscles and the nerves that control them. You can train for cardiovascular endurance by running, but if the leg muscles lack the muscular endurance to continue for more than a few minutes, you will not be able to run long enough to develop cardiovascular endurance. It is also important to remember that the training program for muscular endurance should resemble the activity for which the endurance is needed. Performing muscular endurance exercises with upper body muscles will not help improve the endurance of the leg muscles. Probably the best training program is performing the sport skill repeatedly AEROBIC ENDURANCE
MUSCULAR STRENGTH
MUSCULAR ENDURANCE
FLEXIBILITY BODY
COMPOSITION
