Wednesday
Feb172010
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 "Tabata This!"
Tabata Row
Rest 1 minute
Tabata Squat
Rest 1 minute
Tabata Pull-up
Rest 1 minute
Tabata Push-up
Rest 1 minute
Tabata Sit-up
The Tabata interval is 20 seconds of work followed by 10 seconds of rest for 8 intervals.
Tabata score is the least number of reps performed in any of the eight intervals. Unit for the row is "calories".
Reader Comments (12)
So is this:
Row 4 min (20 secs on, 10 off x8)
Squat 4 min (20 secs on, 10 off x8)
Pullups 4 min (20 secs on, 10 off x 8)
Pushups 4 min (20 secs on, 10 off x8)
Situps 4 min (20 secs on, 10 off x8)
Rest 1 min in between each
so a total of 24 min?
Is that right?
Yes indeed!!! Get ready to throw up...
All I have to say is this about "tabata THIS!"
Whoooooooohhooooooooooooo!!!!!!
Cant hardly wait!
"I ran. I ran until my muscles burned and my veins pumped battery acid. Then I ran some more."
"Without pain, without sacrifice, we would have nothing."
-=T.Durden
YA ANNELISA!! FIGHT ON!
Feels great to be back home from our trip to Santa Barbara, first thing I did was check what workouts I had missed.
Awesome workout today!!!! Throw up was definately on it's way, but it never happend. Those 10 seconds seem more like 3,2,1 and back to burning!
After I was all done, I kept putting my face into my arm,cause remember...throw up was on its way and all Paul said was "Welcome Back!"
Thats all he had to say and I got a huge smile on my face
I don't think I like the "score is minimum reps of each round." It's a little bit demotivating. If you have a bad round and you're going for score, then you aren't motivated to rack em up as you go through. It should be all around total reps.
This was brilliant.
That was hard! Plain and simple. My pull-ups quickly turned south as did my push-ups....I am beat.
Everything was fine until half my palm came off on the pullup bar 11-8-6-3riiiiiiiiiippp...
Speaking of hyperbole, while I liked the general tone of that article from AgainFatter.com, I think the guy is pulling our leg. If he has a CrossFitter who is deadlifting 500# and running a mile in 5:00 I think he owes it to the community (and certainly to the athlete) to say who she is. And I'm not knocking a 5 minute mile, but its far from Elite. My burning question for these people (the hyperbolists) is why can't they just leave the results to speak for themselves?
That's my nickle's worth.
CG
I looked forward to this all day and it was all that I wanted it to be! I agree though with Nils, I found myself cheating on like the pulls ups- I didn't want to do more than the smallest number that I had already done. Wasn't that way on my stronger suits like the rowing and (of all things) squats though.
Also like what Annalisa said. After all these workouts once you cool down its so easy to say you should have done more and tried harder. But in the heat of the moment its just not an option all the time.
Ooooh- love the full body burn.
"Don't hate the playa--hate tha game!"
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The thing about tabata training protocol is that whatever you do needs be performed at 100%. So if by the 4th minute your 100% = 4 pushups or 2 pullups then well done! The number is just a nebulous measure to look at the next time around. Give 100% and let the numbers fall where they may. My situps sucked sucked sucked, but it was all i had. The game element of CrossFit is fun, but should often be ignored in favor of a more physical truth.
Of course...But the purpose of scoring should be to motivate exactly that 100%. Otherwise, what's the point of scoring. The score should be all reps. We're dealing with a psychological as well as physical game with the WODs. "In the heat of the moment" if there's a way to avoid that super-burn, then you do it. If at each effort you are rewarded for the fullest effort (scoring total reps) then you keep pushing at every opportunity. That's all I'm saying.