Tabata This
Posted in Sports on September 21st, 2008 by Hyphen
Alright, I’ve been slacking on my crossfit posts, but I swear I’ve been killing the workouts lately. One of the best parts about crossfit is that it’s really easy to see your improvement and I’ve been increasing damn near all my scores lately. Saturday’s “Rainstorm” over at Foundation CrossFit started with 200m walking lunges to get our legs nice and jelly-like before we got into “Tabata This.” From the CrossFit FAQ:
“Tabata Intervals ( 20 seconds of work followed by 10 seconds of rest repeated 8 times) is applied in turn to the Squat, Rower, Pullups, Sit-ups, and Push-ups with a one minute rotation break between exercises. Each exercise is scored by the weakest number of reps (calories on the rower) in each of the eight intervals. During the one minute rotation time allowed the clock is not stopped but kept running. The score is the total of the scores from the five stations.”
Relatively simple, right? 20 seconds on, 10 seconds off…for 8 times…at each of those 5 exercises…and count only your lowest round. I got my PR of 47 with 6 pull ups, 12 sit ups, 6 calories on the row, 12 squats, and 11 push ups. Seeing as how I was able to knock out 8 calories on my last round of row and 15 push ups on the final round there, I’m guessing I didn’t quite push myself as hard as possible. Next time I’m shooting for (at least) 7, 13, 7, 14, and 13. Let’s get it.