The Benefits of Endurance Exercise

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There are four kinds of endurance. Each have very different protocols that you use in order to build and maximize them. Muscular endurance is the ability for our muscles to perform work over time. Our failure to continue to be able to perform that work is going to be due to muscular fatigue, not to cardio vascular fatigue. And now you will understand what fuel sources they used in order to build that thing we call endurance.

This episode I discuss endurance: our ability to perform effort over extended amounts of time. I describe the four kinds of endurance: muscular endurance, long duration (single-set) efforts, and the two kinds of high intensity interval training (HIIT). I discuss efficiency of effort and maximizing quality of effort, and a hydration formula. I review how our heart literally gets stronger when we oxygenate muscles properly. I also discuss motivation for long bouts of work and the visual physiological basis of the "extra gear" we all can leverage for effort. Finally, I review how accelerating as we fatigue can allow us to access untapped energetic resources.

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