Tabata Training is Serious Stuff! | Women of Grace

May 1, 2013

GD writes: “I have just heard of the Tabata form of exercise. Does it have any element of New age to it? From what I read of it, it seems ok. I would appreciate it if you could shed more light on it.”Dr. Izumi TabataTabata Training is not New Age and is a very serious and well-researched form of exercise.Designed by Dr Izumi Tabata of Japan, this training protocol involves 20 seconds of all-out effort, 10 seconds of rest, repeated eight times, in the course of about four minutes. He monitored the Japanese speed skating team in the 1990s and noticed that short spurts of extreme exercise was just as effective as hours of traditional training. This led to the development of Tabata training.Some of the exercises used during Tabata training include pushups, body weight squats, medicine ball slams, and sprinting or jumping rope.

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