Tabata training...

HIIT training is good in any form but mix it up! dont use one type of HIIT like tabata. Try sprints, punch out drills ect. Check out www.rosstraining.com

 

tabata and intervals are great.

 

Sledgehammer, tyre, Tabata.... we endure a love/hate relationship.

 

^ I swing a hammer at a tire and it just doesn't get me tired enough for tabata.

Never tried full sprints, have to work up to that lol. It have done it with running against these bungee cord things we have at the gym, that was good. Also done burpees, double unders skipping and on a rowing machine.

 

Is such a little amount of exercise good for fat burning? If so, how often would you recommend it?

 

I do about 45 minutes of Tabata's each day. I try to do 8-10 different drills, push ups and burpees I do everytime.

 

You will burn more calories in a 4 minute high intensity tababta set than you would jogging at a slow steady pace for 4 minutes.

But you can obviously jog at a slow steady pace for longer than you can keep up high intensity training (especially if you aren't in good shape).

So if your main goal is fat loss, you want to burn a lot of calories. For this you are better off doing slower, steady paced exercise. OR not as high intensity intervals for a longer peroids of time.

For example instead of doing a tabata set with 20 seconds full out, then 10 seconds rest x 8, you could do 30 seconds running and then 1 or 2 minutes jogging. You will be able to keep that up for longer than you would if you were doing tabatas.

But if you only have a short period of time and you want to burn as many calories as possible in it, doing a couple sets of tabata for say 12 minutes would burn more than jogging 12. The key to get the benefits from tabata, both for weight loss, and improving stamina is that you have to go all out, 100% for the 20 second sets. Just going say 75% you aren't going to get a big benefit since it's such a short period of time that you are going for. Needs to be as hard as you can for those 4 minutes.

If your goal is to improve cardio for boxing, tabata and other high intensity intervals sets are much better than long slow steady paced work (though it isn't useless, and you should still do some of it).

 

If it's not maximal, its not tabata protocol it's simply 20 second intervals with a 10 second rest! 45 mins of 'tabata' is impossible

 

Word.

The mistake people make is forgetting that tabata was developed for Olympic standard athletes. The vast, vast majority of club level, hobby athletes could not do a full set of Tabata properly and are therefore wasting their time. Tabata is not an 8 minute shortcut to fitness.

Intervals are great, but you really need to get the ratio of intense/rest right (or at least in the right ball park) so that your intense periods are absolutely 100% flat out. If that means a 50m sprint followed by 3 minutes of walking then so be it.

 

In Oz we used to do Tabata pushups at work lol

About 2.30 every afternoon me and two other guys would come into my office and knock out push ups tabata style the last set was murder

 

Swing it faster.

 

I sprint for 70-100m, walk for 20sec, then do it again 10x. Does this count as tabata?