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Can You Maintain Strength While Focusing on Endurance?

Military Fitness
January 22, 2026•1 min read

Can You Maintain Strength While Focusing on Endurance?

Short Answer
Yes, strength can be maintained during an endurance-focused phase with a reduced but sufficient strength stimulus.

Nuance
Low-volume, high-quality strength work preserves neural adaptations and muscle mass. Excessive endurance volume without strength exposure accelerates strength loss.

Practical Takeaway
Maintaining strength requires minimal but intentional effort, not full strength blocks.

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Combat Fitness exists to produce capable humans. Tactical fitness for military, law enforcement, and people who refuse to be weak. We focus on strength, work capacity, endurance, and resilience that transfer outside the gym. No trends. No feel-good bullshit. Just hard training for people who expect more from themselves.

Combat Fitness

Combat Fitness exists to produce capable humans. Tactical fitness for military, law enforcement, and people who refuse to be weak. We focus on strength, work capacity, endurance, and resilience that transfer outside the gym. No trends. No feel-good bullshit. Just hard training for people who expect more from themselves.

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