Endurance Exercise

Original Editor - Lucinda hampton

Top Contributors - Lucinda hampton, Oyemi Sillo and Aminat Abolade  

Introduction

In sport, endurance is the ability to sustain a specific activity (endurance running, cycling, swimming, rowing, cross-country skiing etc) for a prolonged period.

• An endurance sport is any sport in which there is a requirement to sustain an activity level while enduring a level of physical stress.
• Endurance training involves developing both general and event specific endurance. And the mental toughness or “grit” needed to achieve our peak performance.
• The fundamental requirement for any endurance sport is the ability to sustain a submaximal work rate for a prolonged period.

The ability to compete strongly in endurance events is influenced by our physical fitness and psychological strengths

• Endurance training is largely influenced by physiological factors (efficiency of energy systems, aerobic capacity/VO2 max, lactate threshold, muscle strength, power and muscular endurance)
• Psychology also plays a key part in success in endurance sport.

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