Isometric Holds Can Build Muscular Endurance

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Muscular endurance can improve our ability to engage in long bouts of what we call long duration, low intensity in durance work. This can support long runs, it can support long swims, and it can build postural strength and endurance simultaneously. And that's mainly accomplished through isometric hold so things like planks are actually quite good for building endurance of the spinal erector muscles which provide posture. You can spot people with poor muscular endurance in the postoral muscles because any time they stop moving, they have to lean against a wall or their hip will move to one side.

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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