Muscular Endurance
What is Muscle Endurance?
The third basic component of physical fitness,
muscular endurance is the ability of the muscle to continue to perform
without fatigue. Whereas muscle-strength is a measurement of your maxium
muscle-power, in a one-off burst of energy, muscle endurance measures
how long you can keep using a muscle (or a group of muscles) to sustain
repeated muscular-contractions or to continue to apply force against a
fixed object (isometric
exercise). It's muscle power versus stamina.
How to Improve Muscle Endurance?
Useful exercises to boost muscle
fitness like endurance and stamina, include push-ups (to improve endurance
of arm and shoulder muscles, like biceps, triceps and deltoids), or squat-thrusts
(to improve endurance of gluteal, quads
and lower-thigh muscles). Alternatively, try cardio-aerobic
activities such as stepping,
power-walking,
exercise-cycling,
squash or jogging to
improve lower-body muscular endurance.
See also Health
Benefits of Strength-Training.
Sources include:
- President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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