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I can only think of one activity where tongue endurance is important, and I guess it's good that runners come out ahead in that department.

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I can think of another — sleeping.

A doctor named Mike Ilkes published a book claiming that snoring is mostly caused by weak muscles in the tongue, soft palate, and lower throat, and can be cured through simple exercise.

I can't vouch for the veracity of his claims yet, but ask me again in a few months…

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness/body/simple-worko...

Im overweight and snore as a result, or have sleep apnea or whatever. Tongue Endurance might okay a small role but its not helping me. I am a beatboxer and consistently train my tongue and muscles around the throat.

Actually, the weightlifters were better in some regards.

> Finally, TE [tongue endurance] was overall significantly greater in runners than in weightlifters (P = 0.001).

I'm assuming you're not trying to move a heavy weight, so the runners probably take an advantage.

Weightlifters had greater tongue strength, for which I can't think of a benefit, but runners had greater endurance.

Strength is actually very important if you read Taoist sexual kung fu practices, they even had exercises for tongue strength specifically.

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