Today I am going to talk about a couple main components of exercise.
The" 3 Big" are Endurance, Flexibility, and Strength. Each of these should be incorporated into your workouts weekly. The level at which you want to utilize each of these should depend on your goals as well as current state that you are at. What I mean by that is that people who want to be power lifters should focus most of their training on Strength rather than the other 3, while a Crossfitter should have equal focus on each of the 4.
Endurance has 2 components, Muscular and Cardiovascular. Muscular , obviously, has to do with your muscles.It is defined as how long a muscle can do repeated contraction without fatigue.(LCSC.edu), while Cardiovascular Endurance is a health-related component of physical fitness that relates to the ability of the circulatory and respiratory systems to supply fuel during sustained physical activity and to eliminate fatigue products after supplying fuel.(plu.edu). Examples of each of these are circuit training for Muscular Endurance, and walking for Cardiovascular Endurance
Flexibility focuses on stretching the muscles to improve range of motion and prevent injury. Another thing that flexibility helps is pain in areas, the biggest being tight hamstring muscles that cause low back pain.
Lastly, the one that everyone focuses on the most is Strength. Strength also has 3 different levels to it; Stabilization, Strength, then Power. Stabilization strength is the ability to perform exercises in an unstable plan for many repetitions at a time. This is the first building block to strength based programs. The next being basic strength. These include exercises as the squat, bench press, shoulder press, etc. The next phase being power. These moves are explosive, such as a hang clean, box jump, burpee, etc.
References
Retrieved from Plu.edu: http://www.plu.edu/~chasega/terms.html
lCSC.edu. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.lcsc.edu/mcollins/FIT%20&%20WELL/FW09ch04.html
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