Muscular endurance is the muscle's ability to complete multiple repetitions ("reps") of a movement against resistance for an extended period. Muscular endurance contributes to athletic performance and ...

Distance-running plans are chock-full of workouts that improve metrics like VO2 max and lactate threshold to help you run faster for longer. But coach Scott Johnston looks beyond these traditional ...

Here’s an example. Running an ultra marathon requires endurance, because the goal is to maintain a steady pace for several ...

Plenty of us are guilty of going to the gym, picking the heaviest weight we can find and lifting it for a small number of repetitions. While this might help us build bigger muscles, it doesn’t improve ...

As part of an ongoing national research effort to better understand how physical activity improves health and prevents disease, seven University of Colorado Department of Medicine faculty members ...

Exercise is good for you. To understand why, MoTrPAC scientists are creating a whole-body map of molecular responses to endurance training — finding striking “all tissue effects” in a new set of ...

HIIT exercise isn't for everyone and there's some evidence that you can overdo it. Here's what the experts recommend ...

Johnston defines muscular endurance as a muscle’s ability to repeatedly contract at a relatively high percentage of its maximal force output for an extended period of time. His philosophy on training ...

A recent study published in Nature presented a whole-organism molecular map of the temporal effects of endurance training in rats. Study: Temporal dynamics of the multi-omic response to endurance ...