This Tabata training routine for figure or bikini competition prep uses bodyweight and weights so it can be used as a combined weights and cardio workout, or you can use it as a finisher after your regular weight training session. If you decided to use it as a finisher, you might need to cut this workout in half or even a third since it is a beast! Also, feel free to switch up the exercises. This is can be used as a template so get creative!Before you begin, make sure you read the article that explains Tabata training if you haven’t done so already.Tabata Routine #4 (45 minutes)Round 1Chest DB press with leg lifts – 20 secondsRest – 10 seconds (optional rest)Pushups – 20 secondsRest – 10 secondsRepeat 8 times1 minute breakRound 2Alternating Back DB rows in plank position with pushup/ pull ups work– 20 secondsRest – 10 seconds (optional rest)Bicep curl/jump squats (Squat, do bicep curls, drop dumbbells and jump then repeat) – 20 secondsRest – 10 secondsRepeat 8 times1 minute breakRound 3Shoulder DB press/Jump squat ( jump into a squat, do a press and come down to drop dumbbells, then jump again and repeat – 20 secondsRest – 10 seconds (optional rest)Pushups with alternating shoulder taps – 20 secondsRest – 10 secondsRepeat 8 times1 minute breakRound 4Modified clapping pushups – 20 secondsRest -10 seconds (optional rest)Medicine Ball twists (feet up) – 20 secondsRest – 10 secondsRepeat 8 times1 minute breakRound 5Kettlebell or DB swings – 20 secondsRest – 10 seconds (optional rest)Squat to upright row (DB or Barbell) – 20 secondsRest -10 secondsRepeat 8 times1 minute breakHow did you like this workout?

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This is a bodyweight only Tabata Training for figure competition so it can be easily done at home or outdoors! This workout is 45 minutes long but feel free to cut in in half if you want to use it as your HIIT cardio for after your weight training workout! You many also need to condition yourself if you are not used to this type of training so it may take you a bit longer. I hate doing boring cardio and reserve the elliptical for days I really don’t have much energy. When I feel like a beast, I train like a beast

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Tabata is a great addition to your figure competition training! If you feel stuck at any point during your figure or bikini competition prep give Tabata a try! It will lean you out while keeping your muscles nice and full, if you don’t abuse it of course.

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Interval trainingInterval training, whether you do it on a bike, on a rowing machine or through running, is one of the best fat-blasting exercises. When you do interval training sessions both your adrenaline and growth hormone levels increase. These hormones help to burn fat and they also suppress your appetite, which is good news if you want to lose weight.The plankAs well as firming up your core, the plank will help you to lose weight because it requires your body to use up calories. To make this exercise harder push your body up from the plank position and support your weight using one hand, before bringing up your other hand and supporting your weight with that too.  Once you are in this position return to the plank before repeating.Kettle bellsKettle bells have been around for hundreds of years and it’s easy to see why. Not only are they excellent at toning up flabby areas, the aerobic nature of common kettle bell exercises helps you to burn fat because these exercises increase your heart rate.

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Resistance Training: Metabolic Resistance Training. metabolicresistancetraining.info Metabolic resistance training is the quickest way to lose body fat and transform your physique. Lose weight and tone your muscles with metabolic training.“Resistance Training” Posts:

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Ultimately, the debate among Pirates fans about whether Travis Snider or Jose Tabata should start in right field probably doesn’t matter much. They’re both out of options, and based on everything we’ve heard so far out of camp, they both appear likely to make the team. (A couple months ago, I thought Jerry Sands might make it ahead of Tabata, but that now appears unlikely — Sands has an option, and reports from camp on Tabata so far have been uniformly positive, so it seems likely Sands will head to Indianapolis.) Also, Snider is left-handed and Tabata right-handed, so it makes sense to simply start Snider against most righties and Tabata against lefties. That’s ultimately what I think will happen, almost regardless of their spring training performances.Neither Snider nor Tabata played well for the Pirates last season, but my visceral reaction to Tabata’s poor play was much stronger, so I headed into this post expecting to write that Snider clearly should receive most of the playing time, and that anyone overreacting to a week’s worth of spring training games should check themselves.After looking into it more carefully, though, I’m not sure it’s that simple.

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Make Me a Hollow Reed –The Benefits of Intermittent FastingReligion must agree with science, so that science shall sustain religion and religion explain science. (Abdu’l-Baha, Divine Philosophy, p. 26)Journalists have called the Baha’i Faith “the reasonable religion” and “a logical, science-friendly belief system,” because the Baha’i teachings focus so strongly on the essential harmony and agreement of scientific fact and spiritual faith. But it’s taken science a while to catch up with the Baha’i Fast.Every year, during the nineteen days before the Vernal Equinox, Baha’is all around the world voluntarily go without food and drink during the daylight hours.

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This is part three in our five part series on intermittent fasting.As challenging as it is to implement the Warrior Diet, implementing the 16/8 protocol is equally easy. You just skip breakfast! There are numerous diets that follow the 16/8 protocol – the LeanGains method, the Renegade Diet, etc. We aren’t going to focus on one diet in particular but instead focus on the protocol in general.The theory behind the 16/8 protocol is virtually the same theory behind the Warrior Diet – your body performs better when it isn’t in a constant state of digestion. Though your eating window is longer than on Warrior, you are non-eating is window is still 16 hours long, which  promotes better gut health than shorter (8-12 hour) non-eating windows.Because there are so many different dietary programs that follow the 16/8 protocol, they each have different reasons for why you should follow it.

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Home / Diet & Nutrition / How Does Intermittent Fasting Work?How Does Intermittent Fasting Work?byFiora StevensonMarch 6, 2013Fasting has been a dieting strategy for decades, and a common spiritual practice for even longer. In terms of dieting, there has been little consensus as to whether calorie restriction is helpful or switches your body into fat-saving survival mode. In recent years, however, a new diet-minded fasting technique has become more popular: intermittent fasting. Read on to find out if it works, and how it works. The DietIf you’re not in the know, intermittent fasting (IF) involves strategically planning for periods where you do not consume any food other than low-calorie liquids (water and black coffee, for example).There are many proposed ways of structuring this diet.

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| E-mail| PrintA new diet has become all the rage in Britain and is now making landfall on our shores as well. It’s called the “Fast Diet” and millions of weight loss candidates already swear by it.Like all commercial diet programs, this one promises quick results without much effort and little changes in established eating habits. Followers can eat anything they want for five days but then have to undergo a fasting period of 48 hours where they cannot consume more than 500 to 600 calories per day.The authors, Dr. Michael Mosley, a medical journalist, and Mini Spencer, a food and fashion writer, claim they both have experienced amazing weight loss successes themselves while experimenting with various forms of intermittent fasting

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