Enhanced muscular strength and endurance can lead to improvements in the areas of performance, injury prevention, body composition, self-image, lifetime muscle and bone health, and metabolic health. Most important, greater muscular strength and endurance reduce the risk of premature death (Reuter 101). Muscular performance can be broken down into two components, strength and endurance. “Muscle strength is the ability to exert a maximal amount of force for a short period of time. Muscle endurance is the ability to do something over and over for an extended period of time without getting tired (Freytag 1).” When a subject is strength training, this means that the subject is increases the size and number of myofibrils, resulting in larger individual
