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Anonymous
Hey /fit/,
What's a quicker and more effective way of building muscular endurance? For example, would rowing heavy be more effective than pullups at building muscular endurance in your arms? Would bench pressing be better than pushups? Does being able to lift something heavy make lifting something lighter easier than being used to lift light things a lot?

Pic is man with apples.
>> Anonymous
if you can bench 400lbs, you can likely do 100 pushups in a row. absolute strength is the best way to increase athletic ability.
>> Anonymous
>>422935
Bullshit. Google "slow twitch" and learn something.
>> Anonymous
>>422951
lol enjoy your internet facts faggot.

fact. no matter how much research you do, your still a bitch because you haven't got the guts to lift hard iron and eat big for years on end.

i know the difference between muscle fibres. but tell me, do mma fighters (who have insane muscular endurance) look like marathon runners? (all slow twitch)

shut the fuck up
>> Anonymous
>>422958
Agreed, but how do they train? Also, marathon runners are sort of on the extreme end of the spectrum. 400m runners? That's where it's at.
>> Anonymous
>>422958
>your

Gradeschool.
>> Anonymous
>>422958
Yes, if MMA fighters have "insane endurance" then they're using slow-twitch fibres. Anything using a fair amount of strength that lasts longer than a couple of reps uses them; fast-twitch fibres aren't physically capable of going beyond that.

The reason they look different from marathon runners is that they have lots of muscle mass, whereas marathon runners have very little (they're also using slow-twitch, but their cardiovascular conditioning, VO2-max etc. is the decisive factor there).

Training fast-twitch fibres will have little to no effect on whether you can do 100 push ups, because they'll have shot their load after single-digit reps.

Hence, low-reps with heavy weights is no good for doing a tonne of simultaneous pushups.
>> Anonymous
>>422990
i meant consecutive, not simultaneous
>> Anonymous
>>422990
maybe in the range of 500 + pushups, but I train as a powerlifter. when i benched 185, i could do about 35 pushups.

now i bench 260, and just banged out 54
>> Anonymous
>>422990
So how do MMA fighters train?