How to Build Muscular Endurance

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Building muscular endurance should not include any movements that include major eccentric loads. Your chest should touch the ground on every push up, ok? It's about pushing down till your chest touch the floor and straightening out. And a pull up is where you pull your chin above the bar. Neither of those should include a slow eccentric or lowering component. If you are using those to train muscular endurance, to three to five sets of 12 to 25 int may be even up to a hundred repetitions with 30 to a hundred 80 seconds in between.

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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