2 goals... how?... help

hey guys..

I am 23 yrs old, 5' 10" (177 cm) tall and weigh 165 lbs (74 kg). My body is proportional in size except for my belly which does protrude out a little bit. 

So, I have 2 goals:

1. Lose that belly
2. Increase stamina (I can't play any sport for longer than 15 min nowadays)

So, what kind of workout routine would you guys recommend. I should be concentrating more on a cardiovascular workout to lose the belly, but my stamina does not allow me to a long run on the treadmill.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Regds

The simples of it are you won't get better stamina unless you start working on it, so get on that treadmill and go for the 15 minutes you can do. Do it every day, if you can do it twice every day even better. Gradually your stamina will start to improve, but if you don't start training your body then it wont. When you feel you can up the anti then do so. At your height and weight I don't see you as having much of a belly tbh, just make sure you're eating cleanly and ofc know that any smoking or drinking isn't going to help.

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_Virtuoso_

At your height and weight I don't see you as having much of a belly tbh...

well you don't know his lmm vs bf%.  he could easily have a 35+ inch waist at low lmm.

your stamina will increase naturally the more you do cardio and the amount.

If you cant play any sports for more then 15 mins...thats pretty bad.

I would hit the treadmill/trail/street whatever for about 15 minutes at first, run a good steady pace and dont stop. do this for a whole week, and increase it to 18 minutes next week. Keep increasing as you see fit... Get the picture? Steadily increase the time/distance or whatever your goal is and your body will adapt and your stamina will increase.

As for routines. Stick to a three day full body as I always recommend, focus on the big lifts. If you want to focus on increasing stamina here. Regardless of reps keep your resting time a little low and you will sweat your balls off. BIG COMPOUND LIFTS.

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_Virtuoso_

At your height and weight I don't see you as having much of a belly tbh...

well you don't know his lmm vs bf%.  he could easily have a 35+ inch waist at low lmm.

It doesn't really matter though, because you can tell from his height and weight alone. If someone were his height but 195lbs, then you'd be right because a good amount of that could be fat, however at 165lbs you know that a 5'10 guy isn't going to be holding 40lbs of fat.

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True, but you don't have to have 40lbs of fat to have "a belly which protrudes out a little bit."  We could argue all day about our perspectives concerning what constitutes a big belly; but the fact is, if a guy doesn't engage in some sort of training on a regular basis, he can and will have a pretty unattractive gut at 5'10 and 165 lbs.

And now that I think about it... Using just those two measurements, a sedentary person could easily be carrying 35-40 lbs of fat.  I'm not saying it's necessarily the case here, but you never know what someone's packing with such an incomplete description.

Compound movements to increase muscular strength.

Low intensity aerobic exercise and maybe even some threatening full body workouts.

Workout A:
**Squat
**Flat Bench
**BB Row
**GHR

Workout B:
**Squat
**OHP
**Pull-up
**Stiff-leg deadlift

Something like that.

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thanks all for the replies.

I've started working out now. Cardio everyday. And weights every other day. 

Should I do cardio after or before my workout? Different people have different views. Also, for my cardio, do I go full intensity or medium? Like do I do a brisk walk or jog or run on a treadmill? Wht would be the best for me.
Thanks

Cardio post-workout, always.

The aerobic metabolism (dominant when adequate oxygen is available i.e. cardio) gets ATP from glucose and fatty acids.

The anaerobic glycosis (dominant when inadequate amount of oxygen is available i.e. resistance training) gets ATP from glucose alone (with CP).

So with this in mind, you could use most of the glycogen/glucose in muscle during cardio before a workout and thus leaving you with little phosphagens (which is already carried in low amounts) from the beginning.

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