Interesting article on famous http://www.bodybuilding.com website.
The author tries to answer this question:
I've been hearing a lot about the benefits of Tabata training. What is it, and should I work it into my program?
Full article here: Link
I'm a bit surprised by this part:
"Some people now vary the exercises during a session. It's also popular to increase or decrease rounds and intensity. Although this variation may not technically count as Tabata Protocol, adding or subtracting rounds or changing movements every other round can be useful."
The Tabata protocol was done on stationary bikes, so actually anything else won't be the 'real' protocol. However what matters is the 170% of VO2max intensity, for the 8 bouts of 20s of efforts.
Once again it seems that this critical criteria is not incorported:
"Here are some movements to incorporate: lunges, jump lunges, thrusters, cleans, hang cleans, burpees, mountain climbers, jump squats, and even push-ups. "
Yes, you know what I think about push-up for Tabata. It is a good endurance exercise for chest, shoulders and triceps but it will never push your heart to 170% of VO2max!!
Lastly there are some examples of exercises, with pictures, which is helpful to understand.
The author tries to answer this question:
I've been hearing a lot about the benefits of Tabata training. What is it, and should I work it into my program?
Full article here: Link
I'm a bit surprised by this part:
"Some people now vary the exercises during a session. It's also popular to increase or decrease rounds and intensity. Although this variation may not technically count as Tabata Protocol, adding or subtracting rounds or changing movements every other round can be useful."
The Tabata protocol was done on stationary bikes, so actually anything else won't be the 'real' protocol. However what matters is the 170% of VO2max intensity, for the 8 bouts of 20s of efforts.
Once again it seems that this critical criteria is not incorported:
"Here are some movements to incorporate: lunges, jump lunges, thrusters, cleans, hang cleans, burpees, mountain climbers, jump squats, and even push-ups. "
Yes, you know what I think about push-up for Tabata. It is a good endurance exercise for chest, shoulders and triceps but it will never push your heart to 170% of VO2max!!
Lastly there are some examples of exercises, with pictures, which is helpful to understand.
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