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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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Jul 02, 2010
 Big muscles
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.

Aug 23, 2010
 Just one 'set' or more?
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?
Aug 24, 2010
 Only one per session
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.
Aug 25, 2010
 1 set and that was that!
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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