Tabata – the 4-Minute Fat-Burning Miracle

Jun 15, 2018

The 4-Minute Fat-Burning Miracle Tabata Workout

 

Last week we talked about High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) to help you burn fat which is what we all really want to do.  Well, Tabata training is HIIT on steroids and takes up much less time.  The best part is that you don’t need fitness equipment at all so you can take it on the road with you.

You know I don’t sugar coat anything so I’m going to be blunt with you.  Tabata feels like nausea, you see stars and you suck wind!   If my client is talking during a tabata set then I know they are not working to their fullest potential.  Why would you want to do such a crazy hard workout routine?  Because it works and it’s worth it!  

Doing as little as 4 minutes (or one “Tabata”) can increase your aerobic capacity, anaerobic capacity, VO2 max, resting metabolic rate, and can help you burn more fat (and make you look 200-percent leaner) than a traditional 60-minute aerobic workout. That’s right—4 minutes of Tabata can get you better fitness gains than an entire hour of running on the treadmill.

The trick to getting all these benefits is the level of intensity. To do a Tabata, an exercise developed in the ’70’s for Japanese Olympians, all you have to do is pick a cardio activity such as running, jumping rope, or biking and go as hard as you can for 20 seconds. Follow that with 10 seconds of rest and repeat seven more times. And when I say “as hard as you can go,” I mean 100-percent maximal intensity. By the end of the 4 minutes you should feel like you’re going to die.

When I first started doing these, I swear I even saw a light at the end of a tunnel. I have to really talk myself into doing the workout, but seeing the very real changes in my body has made me a believer. Adding two Tabatas per week to my workouts helped me shed 7 percent body fat in one month.

Try one of these 10 fat-blasting Tabata workouts and see for yourself. A few tips to get you started:

1) While you can do a Tabata interval with just about any exercise, start with one in which you’re very comfortable. Most people choose sprinting on a treadmill.

2) Get a good timer no matter how good you think you are at 1-mississippi-ing, you cannot estimate when 20 seconds and 10 seconds have passed when your brain is that fuzzy.  You can even download Tabata music from Spotify.

3) Get a good mantra that you can repeat in time with your footfalls for each 20-second burst. It sounds silly, but it really helps focus you on what you’re doing and not on your excruciating pain.

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