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Muscle Endurance and Fitness
What is Muscle Endurance?
Sports Definition: the ability to repeat a series of muscle contractions without fatiguing.
Muscle endurance is different from cardiovascular endurance because it involves the muscle fatiguing rather than a limitation in the amount of oxygen being supplied or utilized by the muscles.
Who Needs Muscle Endurance?
Muscular endurance is one of the main fitness components, important for success in many sports. Muscle endurance plays a very important role in sports such as rowing. In many other sports, including field team sports, good muscle endurance is also an important part of the overall fitness profile.
Muscle Endurance and Fitness Information
- Strength Endurance Fitness Tests — a list of fitness tests for strength and strength endurance such as the chin-up and sit-up test.
- Muscle Endurance Training - there are several products availaable to aid in your training:
- Doorway Chin-Up Bars — for doing pull up exercises at home.
- Perfect Pushups — for advanced push up training.
- Abdominal Workouts — some programs to get you six-pack abs.
Related Pages
- All about Strength Fitness
