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Why You Should Focus on Muscular Endurance Training for Wrestling

By Sports Fitness Advisor, 11/30/17, 12:00PM PST

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Muscular endurance training helps athletes cope with fatigue and tolerate high levels of lactic acid. 

The combination of strength and endurance results in muscular endurance – the ability to perform many repetitions against a given resistance for a prolonged period of time.

It is a crucial element of fitness for athletes such as distance runners, swimmers, cyclists and rowers. It’s also important for success in many team sports like soccer, field hockey and Australian rules football.

Traditionally, muscular endurance programs have used moderate loads lifted for 12-25 repetitions. However, this is completely inadequate for many sports such as boxing, canoeing, distance running, cycling, swimming, rowing, x-country skiing, triathlon and many others.