Muscular Strength And Endurance

Improving your muscular strength and endurance helps you maintain or increase bone mass, reduce body fat, reduce blood pressure, improve your lipid profile, and control your blood glucose. Muscular strength training consists of maximum muscle tension with minimal repetitions. When lifting weights or using resistance exercise equipment, you should ensure that the contractions of your muscles are rhythmic. Use slow to moderate speed while moving through the joint's full range of motion. It's also important to breathe normally during these exercises.

Muscular endurance training involves lifting light weights with more repetitions, typically 8 to 12 per exercise. You should do this form of muscle training at least two days a week, and you should do 8 to 10 exercises that work various muscle groups. Follow the same techniques that you use for muscular strength training.

The following are examples of resistance exercises that work the muscles of the torso and upper and lower body.

Torso Resistance Exercises

Upper-Body Resistance Exercises

Lower-Body Resistance Exercises