Health Related Physical Fitness Endurance When an individual continues doing physical activity for a longer period of time, then he or she is said to have good endurance for doing that particular work. By nature, it looks like both physiological as well as psychological abilities of an individual play a crucial role in determining the endurance ability. As an individual continues doing any work for longer duration, after some time he or she may feel physical as well as mental fatigue. But in spite of this, if he or she is able to continue the work for longer duration then this shows that he or she is having good endurance.
Endurance is normally understood as the ability to do any work for longer duration. It is task specific in nature. We come across many such examples in our daily life which shows that this ability is task specific such as we see a teacher who stands and continues taking his classes for hours together. If the same teacher is asked to run for an hour or more, he or she will not be able to do so.
At the same time, if you ask a long distance runner to run for an hour, he or she will do it easily, but you ask the same runner to sit and work in the office for long hours, he or she may not be able do it. Mental toughness, interest for the task and physiological qualities all have a very important role to play when we talk about endurance. Leg Curl Cable Pushdown Seated Row Dumbbell Shoulder Press Lat Pull Down Twist Abs Incline Situp Calf Raise Dumbbell Bench Press Fig. .
: Excercise with external weight as resistance Activity . •• Perform shoulder press, bench press and squats and find out who scores highest in these activities. •• Compare the body weight of a long distance runner and a sprinter in your school and see the difference. -