Thread: muscle endurance

Muscle is muscle. The big "squishy" muscles just means they're making excuses for being fat.

As for your other question, although I would wait for someone who knows what the hell they're talking about to answer, I think that muscular endurance can be built up fairly effectively by having very short RIs and playing with isometrics and rep timing.

For example, one thing I've been playing around with is the one and a half pullup. That's where I do a full pullup, then on the next rep I do half of a pullup and pause for 2 seconds or so, lower, rinse and repeat until dead.

Yes, muscle endurance exists. There are also multiple kinds of muscle endurance.

Inherent fiber type does have something to do with it, yes.

The actual neuromuscular junction of a muscle cell will change in response to training, so that is another part of it. As well, mitochondrial density improves, and certain enzyme levels/concentrations are altered to promote more muscular endurance. Your muscles also start storing more glycogen, or in the case of seriously endurance trained athletes, intramuscular fat stores also increase.

Originally Posted by CowPimp

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.. or in the case of seriously endurance trained athletes, intramuscular fat stores also increase.

Do you have a study or link to protocols of some research that supports that??.,. i get it .. i just beg to differ that it's an absolute given.

I love alot of what i've read of what you do training wise, so thanks.

Blooming tianshi lotus.

In my NSCA textbook as well as Supertraining. I believe The Science and Practice of Strength Training also contained mention of at least some of that.

What do you disagree with?

Yeh. I've read things consistent in even my cert 3 and 4 folders and I incorporperate a good muscular endurance facet in my own training. . .
i guess I was just using you to make a point and wanted to side flag in regard to the intramuscular fat stores. I once did a Diploma of Hospitality Management and I can remember going through the different cuts of meat and what quailty and activity level goes with which fat distribution through their musclefibres so I understand, but when I got to my peak fitness, it was usually on a low carb no fat no sugar no salt diet so I'm saying that for me cell communication and nueraltransmission wasnt through fat it was through mineral salts and nueral fluid manipulation of viscosities by dicking proteins and ph's etc.. Two different ways to acheive that cell communication and the intramuscluar fat isn't the way I choose and nor do i believe it to be ideal. Long story and half semantic. That's all I was saying.

Blooming tianshi lotus.

what do you mean the neurotransmitter junction changes? I know what that is but changes how? Like the same stimulus from the brain will receive a different output from the junction?

At a higher transmission frequency with a faster uptake and output velocity, yes. The trick then becomes regulating biothermy, aminos, mineral salts and glycogen more crucially. Long story ?

Originally Posted by chico1st

what do you mean the neurotransmitter junction changes? I know what that is but changes how? Like the same stimulus from the brain will receive a different output from the junction?

Dude, you're taking advice from a troll.