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MUSCULAR STRENGTH

AND
ENDURANCE GUIDELINES
MUSCULAR STRENGTH AND ENDURANCE
GUIDELINES
It is important to develop a program that works for you and increases your muscular
strength and endurance. Your strength training program exercise should center on
major muscle groups: back, shoulders, chest, arms, hips, legs and abdominal
muscles. As you lift, maintain normal breathing; do not hold your breathe. You need
to inhale on the easier part of the contraction, and exhale on the harder part.
Consider the class bench press, for example. When you push the weight up, you
need to exhale. Conversely, you need to inhale when you are lowering the w

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