What is a Tabata and why are they becoming more popular amongst the performance enhancement community? A Tabata is a form of short, highly intense exercise that has been found to be very helpful for the conditioning of combat athletes. The workout is an interval training cycle of 20 seconds of maximum intensity exercise, followed by 10 seconds of rest. This cycle continues without pause 8 times for a total of four minutes.
The name of the exercise was derived from its founder, Dr Izumi Tabata, a Japanese researcher from the National Institute of Fitness and Sports. It was found that this training method produced both anaerobic and aerobic benefits in only four minutes of time.
You can adapt most exercises to this training protocal. For example, a trainee could perform this workout using pushups, squats, medicine ball throws, and chin-ups to name a few. Or you could you could lengthen the workout by adding separate intervals of a different exercise.
For those fitness participants who are interested in fat loss, you may find Tabatas to be a time efficient metabolism booster and a fresh change of pace from the typical 30-60 minutes of mindless cardio. The intensity of the Tabata is what delivers more bang for your buck from a fat burning perspective. Your fat burning metabolism is revved up post exercise due to EPOC (Excess Post Exercise Oxygen Consumption) so that your body is burning calories around the clock versus traditional cardio.
So, if you find that you need a break from conventional aerobic exercise due to time constraints or you just want to mix up your training, then give Tabatas a try!
Monday, September 29, 2008
Monday, September 22, 2008
Ryan Lee's Fitness Bootcamp 3
Hey everyone,
Just got back yesterday from Ryan Lee's Fitness Boot Camp 3 in Stamford, CT. What an experience!! A great host of speakers and an international crowd to boot. The major themes from the conference were as follows...1) Take action! 2) Develop your dream workday. 3) Look outside the fitness industry to learn. 4) Focus on your intrinsic values versus your extrinsic needs. 5) "You don't get paid until you get done!"
The last point came from a very successful British trainer by the name of Dax Moy. Basically he meant that you could be busy doing things but it doesn't matter until you get the job(s) done. This holds very true for me when I lose focus on projects and I leave alot of loose ends.
I promise to finish what I start...that is what mindmeister is for!
Just got back yesterday from Ryan Lee's Fitness Boot Camp 3 in Stamford, CT. What an experience!! A great host of speakers and an international crowd to boot. The major themes from the conference were as follows...1) Take action! 2) Develop your dream workday. 3) Look outside the fitness industry to learn. 4) Focus on your intrinsic values versus your extrinsic needs. 5) "You don't get paid until you get done!"
The last point came from a very successful British trainer by the name of Dax Moy. Basically he meant that you could be busy doing things but it doesn't matter until you get the job(s) done. This holds very true for me when I lose focus on projects and I leave alot of loose ends.
I promise to finish what I start...that is what mindmeister is for!
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Welcome to My Blog
Greetings everyone. I'm excited to bring you the latest information in regards to rehabilitation, corrective exercise and fitness training. Learning is a passion of mine and I want to share my experiences as a physical therapist and trainer with the readers of this blog.
I most certainly don't know it all, so that is why I will gladly pay out of pocket to see some of the best educators in the country in the fields of rehabilitation and performance enhancement. I have had the opportunity to see presenters such as Gray Cook, JC Santana, Mike Boyle, Mark Verstegen, Alwyn Cosgrove, and Shirley Sahrmann to name a few. I also had the opportunity to train with Martin Langaas at the Institute of Orthopedic Manual Therapy in Burlington, MA. Martin is from Norway and is an amazing physical therapist who truly doesn't get the recognition that he deserves.
My focus on physical therapy and training changed in 2002 when I went to my first Perform Better seminar. I saw coaches such as Vern Gambetta and the aforementioned Mike Boyle and JC Santana. I realized that I didn't know a whole lot about functional exercise and that one seminar made a major impact on my training philosphy.
Hopefully, this blog will give me the opportunity to discuss the current state of what's going on in the fields of rehabilitation, fitness and performance enhancement.
I most certainly don't know it all, so that is why I will gladly pay out of pocket to see some of the best educators in the country in the fields of rehabilitation and performance enhancement. I have had the opportunity to see presenters such as Gray Cook, JC Santana, Mike Boyle, Mark Verstegen, Alwyn Cosgrove, and Shirley Sahrmann to name a few. I also had the opportunity to train with Martin Langaas at the Institute of Orthopedic Manual Therapy in Burlington, MA. Martin is from Norway and is an amazing physical therapist who truly doesn't get the recognition that he deserves.
My focus on physical therapy and training changed in 2002 when I went to my first Perform Better seminar. I saw coaches such as Vern Gambetta and the aforementioned Mike Boyle and JC Santana. I realized that I didn't know a whole lot about functional exercise and that one seminar made a major impact on my training philosphy.
Hopefully, this blog will give me the opportunity to discuss the current state of what's going on in the fields of rehabilitation, fitness and performance enhancement.
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