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Originally Posted by Wannabeskinny
While increasing strength in your muscles all over like glutes, biceps, hamstrings etc is important, cardiovascular exercise will help reduce fat all over your body. It's not great to gain weight on your thighs, but it's especially harmful to increase your waist size. It's important to know your waist-to-hip ratio
I disagree with you on cardio. I've studied a lot on this subject and evidence (both in literature and from personal experience) shows that strength training is way more efficient than cardio.
Cardio will burn a fair amount of calories during the period of exercise and for a bit after then that's it until your next 'hit'.
Strength training on the other hand, especially if it involves the larger muscle groups like legs, back, chest etc not only burn calories during training, but burn even more long after training.
In fact, strength training by it's very nature tears up muscle fibres which only start recovering after the workout and during that recovery period use up a tremendous amount of energy/calories to facilitate repair.
So, provided you don't mess up on your diet, intense strength training is the way to go ...