Muscular strength is the ability of a muscle, or group of muscles, to sustain repeated contractions and repititions against a resistance for an extended period of time. You might recognize this term as simply just, high reps, low or lighter weight. Muscular Strength, on the other hand, is a person's ability to use muscle to generate a great deal of force in a short period of time. It can be described as simple as, high weight, low reps. You often hear people arguing over which of these two types of workouts is more perfound.
The truth is, you need both. If all you ever do is use lighter weight and do a lot of reps, you will not be able to create the power and strength gains as you would doing less reps and more weight. But on the other hand, exclusively doing strength routines can put a lot of constant stress on your muscles. The best way to go in this situation is to just swap between both routines. For example, say you go four weeks of muscular endurance, then after those for weeks you take your program and do four weeks of muscular strength. There are endless possibilities to choose from. By switching between weight and reps, you are constantly shocking your muscles. Also, this is probably the best way to get past plateaus.
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I really like this post, personally I am trying to build up my strength endurance and it is important for the switching back between the low reps high weight and high reps with low weight. It if definitely easier to just do one or the other but doing booth is what is going to give you the best result.
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