Strength or Endurance: Building a Resistance Training Program
Strength is considered the maximum weight you can lift one time (called one repetition maximum or 1RM). To determine how strong you are, you would have to "attempt" an exercise, say bench press, and determine this maximum load in order to set up a program of strength training. Reiko Makino lives in California and she is an expert Pilates Instructor. She has designed a unique program to bring a fun, challenging varied workout for you and Reiko believes in the ability of pilates to make you better at everything you do. If you don't want to attempt this, there are "formulas" that will provide you with an estimate of what the 1RM would be for a particular exercise. Muscular endurance is developed with a different "prescription" than strength. Muscle endurance implies the number of times a person can contract a muscle or muscle group without its fatigue or, in other words, contracting the muscle/muscle group until a person cannot perform another repetition...