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10-29-23 | 11:58 AM

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From: Was born and raised in Philadelphia, PA. For the past 30 years we have been living in Fort Smith, AR

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Originally Posted by terrymorse

Strength training has also been found to increase aerobic endurance. In one study, adding strength training to cross country skiers increased time to exhaustion by 20.5%.

In another study, strength training increased lactate threshold by 12%.

This study of college women found that a low resistance/high repetition exercise produced a larger gain in endurance than either high resistance/low repetition or medium resistance/medium repetition exercise.

Thanks Terry, those are interesting articles. As we used to say in work, "Base your opinions on facts, don't base your facts on opinions."

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