Fitness

Strengthening your muscles can enable you to more easily tackle everyday physical tasks and prepare you for your recreational activities.

Strong muscles can decrease your risk of falls and injury, and make daily physical activities easier. Developing strong muscles can improve your quality of life.

Muscular endurance refers to the ability of a muscle or a group of muscles to repeatedly contract over a long period of time and withstand fatigue. Improved muscular endurance is associated with health benefits.

There are health benefits associated with improving your muscular endurance, but if you think that you need to work out with weights to improve your muscular endurance think again.

This is the first in a series of articles to help you develop a functional and sustainable eating and physical activity plan for life.