Endurance

Endurance is developed by hard and continuous which exceed the "steady" physiological state and produces near exhaustion, temporarily. Considerable respiratory and muscular distress should develop.

Most beginning athletes are unwilling to drive themselves hard enough. They should punish themselves and then rest adequately, only to increase the output of efforts interspersed with periods of milder activity seem to be the best endurance-training procedure.

Exercises for endurance development should be gradually and carefully increased. Six weeks seems to be a scanty minimum for sports that require considerable endurance and six weeks are really only the beginning. The peak of achievement will be approached in years.

Endurance is lost rapidly if one ceases to work at its maintenance.