How to Build Muscular Endurance Without Excentric Loading

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A plank position is actually a way to build muscular endurance, not strength. The one critical feature of building muscular endurance is that it has no major eccentric loading component. Ecentric movements are when you are lengthening a muscle or lowering a weight. Training of any kind, whether not for endurance or for strength, is one of the major causes of soreness.

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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