For most athletes, muscular endurance is a daily necessity. And, even if you do not train for a sport, muscular endurance – built up through jogging, strength training, cycling, swimming, and climbing – offers many health benefits.
Muscular endurance activities
Muscular endurance describes your ability to exercise repeatedly without getting tired. On the contrary, muscle strength activities are usually performed only a few times with much effort.
It keeps your heart healthy
There is a reason why the American Heart Association recommends getting 150 minutes of moderate-intensity each week: It is essential for maintaining heart health. Suitable heart-healthy muscular endurance activities include jogging, cycling, swimming, and brisk walking, although most research has focused on walking and jogging.
Helps in weight loss
While diet is the most significant factor in losing weight, physical activity comes in a matter of seconds. Physical activity is the most critical factor that affects your total calorie consumption. And research shows that aerobic exercise alone is a practical approach to weight loss.
Men and women walking or jogging five days a week without making any dietary changes lost up to 8.8 pounds at the end of 10 weeks.
Improves mood and sleep quality
It turns out that endurance training not only makes you happier but it also helps you sleep better. Researchers in a Nature and Science of Sleep study from 2017 found that exercise with moderate intensity for 150 minutes per week positively impacted the subject’s mood and sleep quality.
Exercise prevents age-related decline
Researchers discovered that exercise leads to producing a chemical that can help prevent age-related decline in brain function.
Muscular endurance can make you live longer
Strength exercises can reduce the risk of death from any cause by 23 percent, regardless of whether the exercise involved only bodyweight or weighted training. 150 minutes of moderate-intensity aerobic activity can reduce the death risk by 29 percent.
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