It’s time to exercise and lose some pounds. But do you really understand how making sure cardio is in your workout will give you maximum results? Whether it is strength or endurance training, cardio has it’s place in your workout and can make it more successful when trying to lose unwanted calories and burn fat. Let’s look at how cardio fits into your overall strength and endurance workouts. Cardio and Strength Training When you are engaged in strength training it is important to throw some cardio in there. Most of the time you are focus on one zone or area of the body. Let’s say today you are working out your back and biceps. This workout will include weight lifting exercises like bicep curls or squat presses. You may also spend time at the pull up bar doing wide pull ups. At some point you will do some classic wide push-ups to really intensify your workout. At that time you are only focused on the area of your back and biceps. So adding cardio will keep you loose in the areas you are currently working for strength and also add a workout to other areas of your body. Running in place or jumping rope are some great cardio exercises that you can add to a strength workout and keep you from getting stiff. Mixing everything together will give you a full body workout for the day. Cardio and Endurance Training You can put a marriage relationship between endurance and cardiovascular training. They pretty much run together. When trying to increase your endurance running, jumping, and swimming all come into place. The only difference would be the timing and length. For endurance you will want to push yourself for longer periods of time at a slower pace. Getting your heart rate up to a healthy zone. Adding some cardio in the work out with smaller time intervals and shorter moves will help get your body adapt to enduring longer. You can use cardio to really work on your breathing during endurance training. Breathing properly will help your body receive enough oxygen during your training. Putting both of these great exercises together will allow your work out to be full and successful. Cardio has it’s place in all workouts just knowing where and when to put them in your workout will help you gain more endurance.