Strength vs. Endurance

jdbmga

Cathlete
I am fairly new to weight lifting and would like to know the difference in lifting for strength vs. endurance.

Also, which of Cathe's weight workouts are strength and which are endurance?

I think I need these questions answered b4 making new weight training workouts.

I really appreciate the help and knowledge I've received from you all. :)

Thanks in advance :)
 
How do I know which of Cathe's workouts are endurance and which are strength? I am assuming S&H is strength(?) but I don't know about the others.

TIA :)
 
SH is the most strength-oriented. IMO, the others are all pretty much endurance. For strength traininng workouts, you really need more rest between sets because you're lifting very heavy and muscles need more time to recovery. S&H is the only workout with sufficient rest (and it's minimal as far as "real" strength training). You CAN make some of Cathe's other workouts (the ones with a slower rep count and fewer reps per set) more "strength friendly" by adding longer breaks between sets (and definitely betwee body parts in workouts like MM), and lifting as heavy as you can with each set. This would work well with GS series (ie: put as long of a recovery break as you need between sets of push-ups in C/T and do them all on your toes), as well as with some of the premixes on P/P and SS.

AS I said, S&H is the most "strength-oriented" workout, and PH and ME are on the other end of the spectrum, as the most "endurance-oriented" workouts (especially PH). Cathe once posted her rating of the workouts as strength vs. endurance, and she rated PLB/PUB as second to S&H in terms of strength ( I don't agree that the pyramids are very strength oriented when done "as-is" because of the very little rest between sets).

As Nancy mentioned, there are a lot of previous threads on this topic. You could do a search (an "advanced search") using the terms "strength endurance" in "topic and message" in the "ask Cathe forum" to find this.
 
It's fine to ask questions, whether or not they have been asked before. I was just concerned that you would not get much of a response just because your topic has been discussed in the past, so I thought a link would help. It's obviously an excellent question, and one that most of us have asked at one time or another. :D

Don't stop asking!

-Nancy
 

Our Newsletter

Get awesome content delivered straight to your inbox.

Top