Question

What is the difference between muscular strength and muscular endurance?

Answer 1

Strength is the ability of a muscle to do work. Endurance is the ability to sustain that work over time effectively. Strength can be measured, for example, by a one rep max test, where you force a muscle to go through it's full range of motion one time, forcing the maximum amount of weight that the muscle can. An endurance test would be having the muscle go through it's full contraction with a set light weight over and over until it fails.

Answer 2

The difference between muscular endurance and muscle strength muscle endurance the ability of a muscle group to exert a certain amount of force repeatedly whereas muscle strength to exert a maximum amount of force against resistance. For example, long distance runners are said to have muscle endurance whereas sprinters have muscle strength.