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Both a weight training routine and a cardio workout offers advantages and disadvantages. If you include in your personal training goals both, you will experience genuine healthy living with desirable weight loss.

A good weight training routine promotes strength, muscle tone, strong bones, balance, and endurance. Increased muscle mass may contribute to small weight gain; however, a loss of "inches" in the waist and stomach are a well received trade off.

Your cardio workout will contribute greatly to your healthy living with weight loss, increased endurance, and healthy blood pressure. There is nothing like a high intensity run or treadmill workout to eat up those calories.

However, cardio workouts alone, won't give you desired upper body strength. You need to combine both cardio and a weight training routine. This combination will burn up calories like crazy.

Why? Because your muscles and heart have a mind of their own. If you stay with an old boring conventional "routine" your vital organs will slack off because they can do the job without burning up a bunch of calories.

*Tip-Divide your workout into two twenty minute sessions, one session for cardio and one session for a weight training routine. You can do any activity that gives you a cardio and weight resistance challenge.

*Here's some tips for your personal training goals that you can do at home or at a gym-Three 40 minute weekly workouts:

1. Session #1
A. 20 minutes-Weight Training- "free" weights
B. 20 minutes-Cardio Routine-sprint, jog, swim, bike, treadmill, etc.

2.Session #2
A. 20 minutes-Cardio Routine
B. 20 minutes-Weight Training-"Machine" weights

3.Session #3-Repeat session #1.

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