In this free course you will explore an important aspect of strength and conditioning which refers to the physical preparation of athletes: endurance. You will look at the physiological factors that underpin endurance and assess how endurance can be developed relative to performance in a range of sports.Transcript
Overview
Syllabus
- Introduction
- Learning outcomes
- 1 What is endurance?
- 1 What is endurance?
- 2 Who needs endurance?
- 2 Who needs endurance?
- 3 Endurance exercise: physiological determinants
- 3 Endurance exercise: physiological determinants
- 3.1 VO2 max
- 3.2 Lactate (anaerobic) threshold
- 3.3 Exercise economy
- 3.4 Anaerobic power/capacity
- 4 Training endurance
- 4 Training endurance
- 5 Resistance training for endurance
- 5 Resistance training for endurance
- 6 Programming endurance training
- 6 Programming endurance training
- 6.1 Polarised training (or 80/20 training)
- 6.2 Threshold training
- 7 End-of-course quiz
- 7 End-of-course quiz
- Conclusion
- References
- Acknowledgements
