Why Endurance Exercises Are SO Important
When exercising there are various ways to perform that workout.
For example you can workout for strength, muscle building, explosivity, endurance, etc. etc.
Today I want to tell you why having enough muscular endurance is crucial to staying healthy, and why this should be even more of an issue as you get older.
As you know, many people today suffer from joint and muscle problems. We’ll use lower back pain as an example because that probably hits home with a lot of people reading this.
Did you know that one of the most common reasons for having back pain is simply not having enough lower back endurance?
Think about it.
You wake up, sit at a desk for a few hours and your back starts hurting.
This happens because over time your muscles are starting to get tired and more stress is placed on different parts of your body to counteract the fatigue your lower back muscles are receiving.
So not only do you get stress (e.g. pain) in your lower back from them being fatigued, but the pain then starts to radiate throughout other parts of your body because those places are trying to counteract the fatigue your lower back has!
I’m sure you’ve experienced this at some point in your life. I know I have.
Taking Control Of Your Muscle Pain
So if you’re suffering like so many other people are, what can you do about it?
Start doing more endurance exercises!
I actually love endurance exercises for 2 reasons.
First, when you start training your muscles to be able to move a certain weight around for longer periods of time, you’ll see that you can start moving HEAVY weights around for longer periods of time.
In other words, instead of being stuck at lifting 200lbs. for 3 reps, if you start implemetning more endurance exercises you’ll notice that you’ll be able to move that same weight for 4,5,7, or even 10 reps after just a few weeks.
The second reason I love them is because when you start doing them, and this is especially important for your lower back/core – you’ll start having less pain.
As I said most of the pain we experience is because of a lack of endurance in those muscles, so when you start getting more endurance – the pain starts vanishing.
And if you’re having lower back problems, the absolute BEST exercise you can do to relieve that pain is simply holding a plank for a specific time, a few times per week or even 2-3 times per day for shorter times.
So start doing more endurance exercise. Heck, just add 1 set of them to the end of all your workouts and you’ll start seeing improvements!
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