About Cardiovascular Fitness
Program for Developing Your Muscular Strength and Endurance
Training for muscular strength and endurance involves using the overload principle by
using weights, immovable bars or objects, pulleys, straps, or springs. The muscle responds
to the intensity of the overload, not the actual method of the overload, and in general
the muscular overload is increased by:
-increasing either the "load" or the "resistance" to be lifted;
-increasing the number of times or "repetitions" the exercise is done;
-increasing the "speed" of muscular contractions; or, by a combination of these.
The key to the development of muscular strength is regular participation in a systematic
training program.
There are three different methods for developing strength, and it is possible to use any
one or a combination of them to achieve results: isotonic, isometric, and isokinetic.
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