Workout For Muscular Endurance
Q: mike are the workout plans you made more for muscular endurance? i noticed alot of them have lots of reps
A: In general, yes, muscular endurance workouts will have sets of 12-30 and even more reps with lighter weights. The sets may not necessarily be to failure. There will also typically be more sets per week as compared to strength/muscle-building/fat-burning workouts.
Because muscle endurance workouts will not change your body composition as much as traditional heavy weights workouts, the requirements for them tend to come from athletes and be specific to some sport or activity. In that case I would analyze the sport or activity to determine the most appropriate training load and duration.
Another popular goal, especially among guys, is to increase the number of pushups or situps or other bodyweight exercises that can be done in a row. Here approach is two-fold... In these exercises such as this you are lifting your own weight, so if you can reduce your weight you'll be able to do more reps. The best way to decrease your weight without jeopardizing your strength is, of course, to lose fat. The second aspect of this is to do these exercises a lot and often -- you can do them daily with several sets each day. Do as many as you can in each set and watch that number increase week to week! This is especially true for pushups (for guys) and situps but less so for pullups which are a fairly hard exercise and which require more rest for the muscles (so don't do more than 10-15 sets of to-failure pullups per week).
Hope that gives you some ideas. If you have a more specific muscle endurance question about some exercise or sport, post it here and I'll try to help.