Weight Training Might Be Limiting Your Endurance
Many people out there are into bodybuilding, yet also enjoy being active in things such as Tough Mudder, Rugged Maniac, and Spartan Races—which is awesome. However, you might be limiting your endurance in the long run if you aren’t allowing your muscles to properly recover from resistance training. While there are different muscle fibers such as fast-twitch and slow-twitch that deal with aerobic and anaerobic activity, it now appears that weight training might be the limiting factor for both.
Strength and Performance
The goal of being fit is the combination of being strong and being able to perform (endurance). However, James Cook University researchers are now saying that too much resistance training without proper rest of the muscles can decrease your overall cardiovascular performance and be limiting your endurance. One researcher said, “The consensus is that concurrent training is beneficial for endurance development. But we found that if appropriate recovery is not accounted for between each training mode, then it may impair endurance development.”
If you’re an athlete in high school, college, or even at the professional level, your training method could make or break your performance — including limiting your endurance. If coaches and trainers aren’t setting up a program that allows for breaks in order for your body to completely recover, it could cause your performance in matches or games to be diminished.
Proper Recovery
We are all very familiar with DOMS (delayed onset muscle soreness). You know, following a heavy leg day we look at the steps and question if there’s truly a need to go up them. Or you stare at the toilet and wonder if it’s possible to go by simply hovering over it and not needing to sit down and then attempt to get off it when done. This soreness generally hits us around the second day after resistance training and we begin to question why we put ourselves through this.
Some of you might never even feel soreness at all from training (which would be a rarity if you’re exerting maximal effort, but it could happen). The soreness you feel from resistance training could last up to several days depending on how quickly the body can recover from an intense workout. However, if you aren’t letting your body recover properly, it could cause long term effects on athletic performance and cardiovascular endurance for those who bike, run, swim, or engage in obstacle races like mentioned earlier.
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