Lack of muscular endurance

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Hello, my name is Dan and I’m currently training for a friendly meet in 5 months time with some friends.

I struggle with muscular endurance which is generally impacting my training in a huge manner I feel and I don’t know how to get around it.

The amount of weight I can do for reps in each lift is not particularly high compare to my 1 rep maxes, e.g. 150kg squat and I struggle to do 90x8 and a 180 deadlift and I struggle to do 90x12 which is particularly worrying for me.

I had the mentality that if I just keep with it, it will get better over time but this isn’t the case. I feel if I had a higher endurance my training would go much more smoothly and I’d be able to get more volume in with less overall tax which is obviously better for my body.

Any tips or helpful ideas would be great, thanks.

Kind regards, Dan.

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Genetically you may be better suited for one rep maxes.

If you are on a low carb diet, it could be affecting you glycolytic energy system. They are 1) phosphagen (ATP-PC), 2) glycolytic, and 3) oxidative

Remember you body uses three energy systems. The energy systems do overlap. That said for a one rep max you really only need your phosphagen system. By the time you hit 8 to 12 reps you are using both the phosphagen and glycolytic system and the phosphagen system tank is probably empty for the last couple reps so you are relying on the glycoltyic system.

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