Posts tagged tabata exercise

Monday is a ForestFit day, with currently three groups running, two this morning and a hardcore session tonight.

The theme for today was Tabata, quite a straight-forward training protocol but with big effect to your metabolism.

In simple terms you work hard for a short period say 20 seconds, then rest for 10 seconds and then repeat. Today’s routine consisted of pairs of exercises repeated 2 or 3 times.

Starting with our trademark GetFit.lu warmup we headed in to the forest for the first pair of exercises.

1. Overhead Squats and Sprints. so 20 seconds of squats, 10 seconds rest, 20 seconds sprint, 10 seconds rest… repeat 3 times.
2. Zero Resistance LAteral Raise and Lateral Lunges
3. Incline push ups and Mountain Climbers
4. Modified Pull ups and Plank
5. Hill Sprint
6. Reverse Lunge and Side Plank
7. Under/Over bars and Sprint
8. Finish off with a metabolic finisher 24 flutters, 10 push ups, 18 Elbow Stabilisations, 32 Lateral Raises AND then a hill sprint.

This is probably on the shorter end of the scale for our interval based routines, but the effect on the metabolism is huge. Every participant will have been burning calories like crazy all through the day today )

Here are a couple of pictures of the session… you’ll see our lovely forest, this is what I get up for at 5.30am 3 times a week ) Not hard to see why!