STRENGTH ENDURANCE

Strength Endurance is a form of exercise that can involve aerobic activities, body-weight or lightweight resistance training.  Workout duration and exercise volume usually are good indicators of strength endurance training. For example, a workout involving a 20-minute circuit of 20 push-ups, 20 pull-ups, 20 squats, and 2-minutes on the bike would be considered strength endurance training.  Athletes refer to this as “conditioning”.

ROLE OF PROGRESSION

Unless you participate in a sport that has a primary role for strength endurance, there’s no need to worry about progressing necessarily.  For most people, It’ll be more beneficial to be consistent than to try to progress the intensity in some way.

UNDERSTANDING TRAINING OUTCOMES

Strength endurance training, or conditioning, is a good way to add intensity to aerobic training in an interval format. With strength endurance training, you can expect to elevate your heart rate, target your cardiovascular system, and you may see some general strength gains.

However, strength endurance training will not provide true strength training benefits but as a beginner, you may experience some general strength improvements. Likewise, strength endurance training won’t give you the full benefit or specificity of pure endurance training, but you may experience some cardiovascular improvements depending on your fitness level.