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Endurance Training For Performance Development

Endurance training is an essential part of fitness training for having more stamina and becoming a good athlete.
Endurance
The terms most often used for endurance exercises are aerobic, anaerobic, strength, and speed. These various training methods have been developed to help athletes with their endurance conditioning.

Muscle endurance exercises are an important asset to many sports training programs. Aerobic and anaerobic metabolism is what supplies the energy throughout your body to give you the burst of energy that you need for either a long period of time or a short period of time.





(Negatives) of Endurance Training Perfomances


Without muscle endurance conditioning, being an athlete in any sport can cause fatigue and exhaustion. Your athletic abilities will not be at its best unless your endurance conditioning is at its tip top shape.

Endurance Training

Aerobic Metabolism and Endurance (With Oxygen)

This is a combination of energy systems that fuels the body needed for any type of exercises. Aerobic metabolisms is used to fuel the body with the amount of energy for long durations of any muscle endurance exercises. During aerobic condition, your body uses oxygen to contract your muscles, therefore, letting your body workout for a longer period of time without fatigue.

In every sport, athletes continue to push and train their body to work well during any stressful events. The harder you push your body, the more stamina and endurance you will have for any difficult challenges that lies ahead.


Anaerobic Metabolism and Endurance (No Oxygen)

Now, this is a combination of energy systems that gives your body the right amount of fuel needed for any type of short duration long endurance exercises or programs. In other words, it's almost the opposite of aerobic metabolism except its only helpful for shorter amounts of periods.

During anaerobic conditions your body does not require oxygen to fuel muscle contractions. Your muscle will use the adequate amount of fuel to contract your muscles without fatigue. This is why your workout durations are usually shorter because your are not using the necessary amount of oxygen to prevent fatigue of the body or muscles.





Endurance Training Tips

  • Go harder, faster, and longer every time. Just be sure to push yourself harder every time or everyday. However, if increasing your difficulty doesn't work well for you then just push yourself harder weekly instead of daily.
  • Incorporate cardiovascular exercises (Cardio) into your weekly routines. It helps pump your heart rate to increase stamina.
  • Mix up your routines. Doing the same routines everyday is one of the ways that won't help you build endurance.
  • Use hills to for your workout programs. Running on flat land gets boring and your body gets used to it, work harder by pushing your body to workout on hills.
  • Completely stop drinking carbonated drinks as in soda's because it will decrease your stamina and dehydrate your body. Therefore, causing cramps and etc.



Endurance Training Safety

  • Warm-Up before you start any training programs.
  • Set your training goals accordingly and within your abilities.
  • Always start slow and work your way up little by little.
  • Keep a normal, but challenging pace.
  • Increase your intensity OR durations to see improvements.
  • Drink plenty of water to prevent cramps.
  • Hydrate your body often to prevent over heating your body.
  • Always stretch before training and after training.





Muscle Endurance Training (With Weights)


Endurance Training With Weights
There are a number of different ways to train for muscle endurance. The variation, duration, and intensity of each training program focuses slightly on several different energy systems and skills that will give your body the endurance it needs for success.

There are several different types of endurance exercises such as the ones below:

Long Distance Training

Tempo Training

Interval Training

Circuit Training

Fartlek Training

There are several different reasons and a number of different training methods to help with an individuals fitness abilities.

Here are a few examples of the different training methods to develop your fitness abilities:

  • Strength Development - It consists of low repetitions (2-6) with heavy weights. However, it will build muscle as well.
  • Muscle Building - This uses a medium amount of repetitions somewhere between (8-12) with medium weights. This program builds some strength.
  • High Velocity for Power Development - This consists of low to medium amounts of repetition.
  • Endurance Development - This is a high number of repetition (15-25) that uses light weight. This program is specifically used to build endurance.

If you look at Endurance Development, to build muscle endurance, training properly for it is the key. The only way to build muscle endurance is to do high repetitions. However, it can build little muscle, but its major purpose is to build endurance.


Doing high repetitions, works out small muscle fibers that normally doesn't get touched when lifting heavy. It's a great program that will build little strength and muscle, but is great for aerobic fitness.



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