Ideas to improve endurance (exercise)

[GenMarshall]

I am curious on if there are any ideas on how to improve endurance when exercising from within the CFC communitiy. Thanks for any information on how to improve one's endurance .

Edit: Apologies for my lack of exercise and athletic lingo

 

[Perfection]

exercise for longer periods of time.

 

[Trajan12]

You want to increase the amount of reps you do in any set. If you're looking to build endurance. And you might also want to stretch and warm up before every exercise.

 

[GenMarshall]

I am wondering how it can be applied to running since I can only run for a short period of time and then I get out of breath and feel pain in my legs (lactic acid).

 

[Perfection]

run/jog for longer periods of time.

 

[Trajan12]

I am wondering how it can be applied to running since I can only run for a short period of time and then I get out of breath and feel pain in my legs (lactic acid).

Well like Perfection said you want to push yourself as far as you can before it starts to hurt. Never exercise if you are in pain.

You can also try different aerobic exercises like jump roping or something like that.

 

[Perfection]

I wonder if there are any katana-related aerobic exercises...

 

[Stolen Rutters]

If any running at all puts you out of breath and causes pain, work your way up to running first. After than work on running endurance.

It's more effective if you can do something for at least ten minutes straight, like walking or jogging, if running is too much of an exertion. It shouldn't take more than a week or two to build up to running. Every day, try to beat yesterdays time and effort.

That first hurdle, getting active on a regular basis, is the hardest hurdle. Once you are doing anything at all that gets your heart rate up for more than a couple minutes, you will progress to running in no time.

Make sure you always have good running shoes. Good luck.

 

[GenMarshall]

Ugh, I could not even make it 10 minutes . I normaly lose my breath after about 3 minutes. And thats at full speed.

 

[CaptainF]

I would say take up a sport that involves running or aerobic exertion. Because that way you are running without even thinking about it, and are doing so in a fun way.

Try Badminton, Tennis, or Soccer. All are guaranteed to get you in excellent shape.

 

[Nuka-sama]

My suggestion is jogging one block the first day, then 2, then 3, then so on. If it ever starts to hurt, go back. Also, work with jump ropes, cardio, play some B-ball, leg weights, etc.

 

[sonorakitch]

Play Soccer!

~Chris

 

[GenMarshall]

I would say take up a sport that involves running or aerobic exertion.

Well currently, I am taking Karate. I am asking about how to improve my endurance to prepare myself when I take my fitness portion of my black belt test.

 

[CaptainF]

Play Soccer!

~Chris

Tennis damnit!

Well currently, I am taking Karate. I am asking about how to improve my endurance to prepare myself when I take my fitness portion of my black belt test.

Well in that case just start jump roping. It will get you in shape like none other.

 

[MjM]

Dont ever ever ever play soccer. Soccer is for girls and foreign men, which are a interchangable now that I think about it.

Play football. Builds up endurance of all kinds.

 

[Stolen Rutters]

Ugh, I could not even make it 10 minutes . I normaly lose my breath after about 3 minutes. And thats at full speed.

Running full speed is not for endurance.

Endurance training is exercising "LESS THAN" 70-80% of your full speed for a longer and longer period of time as you continue training. Endurance determines the length of time you can do any given exercise, not how far you can push the exercise.

People can't push past about 70 to 80% of their "ultimate strength" for more than a short time no matter what their endurance. Those people running forever have pushed their strength limit high enough so that running at that pace is below their 70-80%. If they push beyond 80% of THEIR limit, they will tire out in a few minutes, too. Their 80% level just happens to be higher than running at that pace.

You will eventually increase your strength limit, which periodically running at full speed can help with, but you will need to make most of your exercise happen below that 80% mark so you can build endurance.

About that ten minutes... I believe that ten minutes is just a nice target for a beginner and is probably achieveable in a few weeks or less. Once you reach ten, you will be pushing for fifteen, then twenty, and so on.

 

[CaptainF]

Dont ever ever ever play soccer. Soccer is for girls and foreign men, which are a interchangable now that I think about it.

Play football. Builds up endurance of all kinds.

Football is for fat boys that want to pretend they are in shape.

 

[MjM]

Football is for fat boys that want to pretend they are in shape.

5'11'' 145~ pounds. Fatty? I dont think so.

 

[CaptainF]

5'11'' 145~ pounds. Fatty? I dont think so.

Well, I suppose a waterboy has to run a little harder than the rest.

 

[GenMarshall]

Running full speed is not for endurance.

Endurance training is exercising "LESS THAN" 70-80% of your full speed for a longer and longer period of time as you continue training. Endurance determines the length of time you can do any given exercise, not how far you can push the exercise.

People can't push past about 70 to 80% of their "ultimate strength" for more than a short time no matter what their endurance. Those people running forever have pushed their strength limit high enough so that running at that pace is below their 70-80%. If they push beyond 80% of THEIR limit, they will tire out in a few minutes, too. Their 80% level just happens to be higher than running at that pace.

You will eventually increase your strength limit, which periodically running at full speed can help with, but you will need to make most of your exercise happen below that 80% mark so you can build endurance.

About that ten minutes... I believe that ten minutes is just a nice target for a beginner and is probably achieveable in a few weeks or less. Once you reach ten, you will be pushing for fifteen, then twenty, and so on.

So in a sense, when I run full speed (and in analogy to a Train or a Plane) at 100% I use up all of my energy quickly and place myself in a "stall"?