The afternoon class gets inverted during their workout on Monday. As for today, we will be doing tabata intervals. Why tabata? Tabata Training was developed by Dr. Izumi Tabata who was a former researcher at Japan’s National Institute of Fitness and Sports. He discovered that interval training following the 20 seconds on/ 10 second off protocol, would help to enhance overall fitness goals, whether it be increasing strength, losing weight, or improving endurance. Why? Dr. Tabata realized that using this protocol, one is able to achieve maximal anaerobic and aerobic benefits from a short and simple workout which can be done with a variety of exercises. (Vocabulary lesson: aerobic is using oxygen to perform at low to moderately high intensity, whereas, anaerobic is high intensity for short periods while using little oxygen.) The workout is a mere 16 minutes but be forewarned... It's tough, but it will help us to crank up our training another notch. It's all about the end results people! :)
WOD
"Tabata Something Else"
Complete 32 intervals of 20 seconds of work followed by ten seconds of rest where the first 8 intervals are pull-ups, the second 8 are push-ups, the third 8 intervals are sit-ups, and finally, the last 8 intervals are squats. There is no rest between exercises.
Post total reps from all 32 intervals to comments.
Irene did the run,run,run today. My times were
ReplyDelete25,20,21,19,20,19,18,19,19,19
Since my daughter was nice enough to turn down my alarm clock so that I could sleep in this morning... I will enter my post-lunch workout:
ReplyDeletePull-ups: 57 (unassisted)
Push-ups: 78
Sit-ups: 62
Squats: 105