Improving your muscular endurance can help you run longer, swim farther and even sit with better posture. (LIVESTRONG_COM)
The longevity component of muscular fitness is endurance, or the ability of a muscle to exert force over a given period of time. Your muscles are made up of slow-twitch and fast-twitch fibers, according to the ACE. Ideally, you want to strengthen both types of muscle fibers, but your slow-twitch muscles play the biggest role in muscular endurance.
In order to do so, you need to do more muscle-strengthening exercises that involve holding your muscles under tension for longer periods of time, per the ACE. In other words, you want to decrease the amount of time you rest between exercises and increase your actual work periods.
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