Take Your Fitness to the Next Level With Tabata

Take Your Fitness to the Next Level With Tabata
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If you find that you’re always strapped for time and struggle to fit a workout into your daily routine, you might seriously want to consider looking into Tabata as a more effective alternative to your longer workouts. Amazingly, this unique and increasing popular style of training only takes just about four minutes to complete!

An Intro to Tabata

According to WebMD, Tabata is a form of high-intensity interval training (HIIT) that can boost fat loss, improve glucose metabolism and supercharge your athletic performance. It was developed Dr. Izumi Tabata and his team of scientists at the Tokyo-based National Institute of Fitness.

The scientists tested a group of athletes who worked out at moderate intensity for an hour, five days a week while a different group worked out at high intensity for just four hours and 20 seconds, four times a week. After six weeks, the moderate intensity group had improved their aerobic systems but didn’t show much improvement in their anaerobic systems. The high-intensity group, on the other hand, improved their aerobic systems significantly more than the moderate intensity group and even saw a 28-percent improvement in their anaerobic systems.

Tabata involves pushing the absolute hardest you can for just 20 seconds, and then only resting for 10 seconds. (ArdenSchmidt/iStock)
Tabata involves pushing the absolute hardest you can for just 20 seconds, and then only resting for 10 seconds. ArdenSchmidt/iStock
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