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Tabata for one muscle group over the four minutes?

by Chester
(Orange)

In your discussion of Tabata you suggest using large muscle groups like chest or legs. Are you suggesting you only use chest (as an example) over the entire four minutes with 20 seconds on and 10 off? If you did that aren't you only conditioning one part of your body?

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Tabata for one muscle group over the four minutes?

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by: Greg

Tabata is more of an anaerobic exercise rather than a conditioning exercise.

Sure it will condition whatever muscles you use, but the real benefit is in how it adapts the way your body uses energy.

You pick a big muscle group to maximize the affect of this energy use.
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by: Glen

Could you, for example, do three Tabata workouts in one session at the gym i.e. 1)chest, 2)legs & 3)back? Or would this be too much?
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by: Greg

If you can do more than one set of tabata, then you aren't doing it right. You should be broken at the end of it.

If you aren't i would check that whatever exercise you are doing you have enough resistance.
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by: Glen

I, like so many other I imagine, was sceptical but you where right my friend!!

One Tabata set of d/b squats with a should press at the top and I was a broken man at the end of 4 minutes..... HR went from low range (after a warm up) to over 170 in no time at all.......

4 hours later and I still feel like I've had a work out. Awesome!!
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by: Exercise Zealot

I've been using the Tabata Protocol for over a year now and it has done incredible things to my overall stamina and aerobic capacity. My partner and I do three rounds of Tabata per workout, twice a week. We change the exercises used about every two weeks. For example, we set up four stations: Kettlebell swings; one hand and one foot planks; plyo-metric jumps; and 18" step up and curl. Often after doing these, we collapse in exhaustion, but after a year, we're ready to go again in three minutes. In each cycle, we do lose some intensity to simply getting more tired. After the third round, we're cooked. What I've really noticed is my aerobic capacity is phenominal. I conducted a three-minute step test on myself to determine my VO2 max and scored off the chart. After the one minute rest, my pulse was back to normal, which for me now is less than 60.

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