: What are the traits of different types of workouts? To my limited knowledge - you must train differently depending on what you want to achieve. E.g. to lose weight one should do small weight lifting with lots of repetitions

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To lose weight, burn more calories
than you eat. This can be by working
out more or eating less.
To gain muscle, you need to challenge
your muscles. This is most often done
by lifting heavy weights. You also
need a calorie surplus in order to
grow.
To improve stamina do the thing that
requires stamina longer or more
often.

If you interpret "lose weight" as "lose fat" then there's no reason you can't do all three things at once. I don't agree that there are "types" of workouts, just different goals. Someone that just wants to lose fat might just run on a treadmill, but that doesn't mean that lifting weights wouldn't be equally (or even more) effective at that goal.