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[tommo256]

Hello Guys,

Just thought I would do a topic on this, I am currently enduring tabata training which was found by some Japanese dude, i think. It is basically 20 seconds of exercise and then 10 seconds off, It sends the muscles into overload and improves strength, endurance and more importantly for a portly fella like myself helps fat loss.

If anyone wants to try it, I would recommend it, it makes you work hard and tests strength to the limit.

Cheers
lee x

[Ryan]

isn't that very similar to "fartlek training" where you run in short bursts at 100% then rest and repeat?

[tommo256]

isn't that very similar to "fartlek training" where you run in short bursts at 100% then rest and repeat?

very similar mate, It is hurting though. I just picked up an apple it felt like it weighed a tonne

[Ryan]

i feel your pain! I went snowboarding with a friend last night at our local indoor slope and i'm feeling it this morning. Havent been for over a year!

[tommo256]

Its squats, press ups and the bicep curls that are killing me, I'm walking round like bambi on ice as well

[Ryan]

haha, like good old circuit training then? That used to cripple me.

I couldn't walk up stairs a few years back after filling in keeping for simmy, messed up my legs all that up and down carry on lol

[tommo256]

haha, like good old circuit training then? That used to cripple me.

I couldn't walk up stairs a few years back after filling in keeping for simmy, messed up my legs all that up and down carry on lol

Yeah its like circuit but it seems a higher intensity, its gonna pay off though so

[Ryan]

prob do with some of that too, i'm a right little fatty now! 

[tommo256]

Yeah I can't go out for a long run, just not me. where as this is better for me and less time

[Simmy]

i loved a bit of circuit training when i was at school used to have comps how many sits up we could do in 60 seconds!

i bet i couldnt even do 10 now lol

used to do 100 sit ups in a morning and 100 when i got home lol

how i lost alot of weight at school after being ill and on steroids

now im fat again cos i descovered mcdonalds drive through

[tommo256]

Haven't been to mcdonalds for like 5 months, my downfall is snacking

[alexrickyponting]

I'm doing some mma sessions atm which seem to be working, feel fitter and shifting some punds i think. hour and a half sessions which push you to the limit, jab cross sprawl is a killer, basically 2 punches then jump down into a sort of press up position and jump straight back to feet then repeat for what feels like an hour haha. Missed it wednesday gone for a party so next week may be even more of a struggle 

[Howzat]

isn't that very similar to "fartlek training" where you run in short bursts at 100% then rest and repeat?

Fartlek training is where you do the activity at varying intensity's with no rest

[RossViper]

Fartlek training is where you do the activity at varying intensity's with no rest

Yep, it is, and thus it's different from the Tabata methods, which is a form of HIT, which basically is no better than "normal" methods, but does increase the chance of injury... some people prefer it though, because its "easier" for them to do, or some times in gyms looks like there can lift big weights etc...

if you're constantly sore after exercise, your doing something wrong...