Purpose

This section will focus on the last two components of fitness: muscular strength and muscular endurance.

Directions

The rest of this chapter contains your reading for this section.

Additionally, information on these external sources will be useful to deepen your understanding:

• ACSM:Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS)

• Read Musculoskeletal Fitness  (Kravitz, Len. “Musculoskeletal Fitness.” Encyclopedia of Lifestyle Medicine & Health. Ed. James M. Rippe. Vol. 2. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Reference, 2012. 734-737. Gale Virtual Reference Library.  Retrieved from  http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CCX1959000214&v=2.1&u=viva2_nvcc&it=r&p=GVRL&sw=w&asid=ba00a059151810629d9e21e93a586875)

This article explains in detail the benefits of improving musculoskeletal fitness.

• Review sections one, two, and four in this document: Health-Related Fitness Overview

You have already read this document before. Therefore, this time you can focus specifically on the information about muscular strength, muscular endurance, and resistance training.

•   Resistance exercise videos