Training Thursday: Tabata

Today's work is very simple. And quick! This bad boy takes only 4 mins, so I do not want to hear ANY excuses that you don't have time to do this.

The name of the game is Tabata training. It is a short and grueling form of interval training in which one alternates between 20 seconds of high intensity exercises with 10 seconds of rest for a total of 8 rounds.

“Originally I thought this type of training was just for speed skaters or other highly motivated athletes because it is very painful and tiring,” says Izumi Tabata, [the training coach who originally spent the time analyzing this protocol] now a professor and researcher at Japan’s Ritsumeikan University. “However, I found that there were groups of people interested in building muscle and therefore doing short high-intensity exercises that trained their muscle, but not those exercises that improved their aerobic training. When this regimen came along, they began to realize they could train both at the same time.”

(source: https://www.acefitness.org/prosourcearticle/3497/is-tabata-all-it-s-cracked-up-to-be)

For this week's Training Thursday you can choose to do just one round of Tabata, or all 4 to get a killer total body workout in just 16 minutes!

            Tabata set 1: Jump squats

            Tabata set 2: Push ups 

            Tabata set 3: Mountain climbers

            Tabata set 4: Burpees

Happy sweating :)