Endurance training is exercising in a way that increases your heart rate and strengthens your Endurance. Cardiovascular and simple muscular endurance are what we use for our sports activities. Endurance training is most commonly known as Cardio in our fitness world today. Cardio is a low to high intensity exercise that depends a lot on the aerobic energy output in our bodies. There are four different types of Endurance training that I will cover. I will talk about what they will work in your body and how it helps, but also the importance of it. The types of endurance are aerobic endurance, anaerobic endurance, speed endurance and strength endurance.
Aerobic Endurance exercise or good old fashioned stamina, is your ability to keep exercising at a moderate intensity for extended periods of time. Aerobic training is a type of training Your Aerobic system or cardiovascular system is what allows you to sustain exercise for longer periods of time, “Aerobic” means “With or Requiring Oxygen”. Weightlifters and Gym rats will refer to Aerobic exercise as ‘Cardio’. Cardio is an important and often overlooked part of a person’s workout. Cardio builds up stamina and endurance and also works a lot of different muscles in your body at once. Some examples of this type of exercise are swimming, walking, rowing, a light jog. Lastly aerobic exercise can help decrease your chances of heart disease, lowers blood pressure, controls blood sugar, improves lung function, and helps you maintain or lose weight.
Anaerobic exercise is a higher intensity training and is different from aerobic training. Anaerobic exercise is a type of exercise that breaks down Glucose in our bodies for energy, and doesn’t use oxygen in the process. The main idea of this type of workout is using a lot of your energy in short bursts of time. Which causes our bodies oxygen demand to be higher than its supply. Some examples of this exercise are Sprints, Jumping Rope, Biking, and even High-Intensity Interval Weightlifting. Anaerobic health helps certain parts of your body as well. It Protects joints, boosts metabolism, increases lactic acid threshold, increases power, and increases bone strength and density.
Speed Endurance Training is a branch off of anaerobic exercise. Speed training is when you push your body to maintain and increase your performance in the category of speed and maintaining top speed. Training can improve the clearance rate of lactate and reduce early lactate formation, and can improve other things as well. Stronger muscle stride, burning fat faster, more muscle, better anaerobic endurance, and stronger bones and connective tissues.
Strength Endurance Training means training with a high number of repetitions at low weights. Strength endurance training therefore does not train with maximum strength, but only with an intensity of about half your maximum performance. There are a lot of benefits to this type of training, it reduces risk of injury, increases a person’s overall stamina to perform activities, and increases muscle and bone strength.
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