I can press a small buick in bench press, but i get winded when running up the stairs to my gym hee hee. Yeah sure i can keep up with my gyms arobic instuctures, but I allways feel like im cheating myself to cut me the most slack :\. I never get the feeling that i take endurence traning as far as I can.

Anybody got any good advice? Sure apricate it :)

I can press a small buick in bench press, but i get winded when running up the stairs to my gym hee hee. Yeah sure i can keep up with my gyms arobic instuctures, but I allways feel like im cheating myself to cut me the most slack :\. I never get the feeling that i take endurence traning as far as I can.

Anybody got any good advice? Sure apricate it :)

You don't have to do stuff that looks like cardio in order to get cardio.

Here are a few things I do for cardio.

Lunges with dumbell curl and press. This is like a regular dumbell lunge, except you start standing up with the dumbells shoulder pressed. Then you unpress the dumbells and uncurl them as you lunge forward so that when you are at the bottom of the lunge, the dumbells are at their lowest point. Then you curl the dumbells and press them as you recover the lunge. The thing here is that you don't need really heavy dumbells for this exercise to get your heart rate going pretty fast. And so you can do sets of these as interval training - pick a tempo, and make sure your set lasts a minute.

Barbell squats. Sets of 50 or more usually last long enough to be a useful "interval".

Bench step-ups with dumbells.

The thing about using free weights for cardio is the impact is low, and the reps are not as high as traditional cardio exercises. So you get the benefits of circulation and heart training without as much stress on the joints.

Plus, these are free weight exercises which you will might enjoy more than a treadmill, etc., since you don't have to do them continuously for half an hour to get any benefit. You push your heart rate way up for a minute or two, and then you let it recover for a few minutes, and then back up again, etc. You follow a pattern of heart rate that is like interval training. But you can decide to work muscles in a way which might fit in better with your workout split.

And whatever else results I have, I have very good endurance as a result of my training, and I do this sort of free weight type cardio about as often as I do traditional cardio. I wear a heart monitor so I can tell that it works just as well.