Tabata protocol

Where on paper, it doesn't look like there's that much of a difference, but it just gets to be just massively exponential.

It's like when people say they've done Tabata and then they do something afterwards.

No, you didn't.

No, you didn't.

Or I do think that transfers over to showing up at the gym the days you don't want to train, like just putting in the effort to see what's there.

And it's also a controlled stressor you could do almost daily as long as it's very controlled that isn't going to completely upend your schedule.

So you start doing the multiple Tabatas or something like that, like you're going to just way too much stress and implode your training.

So if the day comes where you start to enjoy it, that's the end of the experiment.

This ensures high quality output during your work bout, which is what we really want, and adequate partial recovery in between.

So, as you know, there's a place for all types of training, and that does include a conditioning emphasis and high workout density and Tabata style training where you might be doing... hard efforts which are longer than very short active rest breaks.

Again, there's a place for it.

I just don't recommend it too often because I think it turns into a shit show pretty quickly for most people.

And what I generally do is I'll do a short sprint interval.

So, so let's say something like a single Tabata, right, on like, on the Echo Bike, which is literally fi- ... four minutes of work, and then I go put them on the treadmill-

Mm

... after.

He does, uh, uh, some time punching the bag and then takes a rest, and then goes back to the bag and takes a rest.

There are things like Dr. Tabata came up with the Tabata system, so it's 20 seconds of work, 10 seconds off.

And you can play with that sort of a, a scenario.

So if you're doing 20 seconds, you can imagine, uh, you can go relatively hard.

And then we'll take a deeper look into the problem when we get done with the lift.

being out there for all of the runs as well, not just as a medical professional, but making the modifications for guys that can't run, running them through, you know, bike Tabatas, aerobic capacity circuits on the bikes to kind of initiate, to try to get the same stimulus that the guys are getting for that day.

Use a lot of sled pulls, heavy sled pulls, go back to all of the Westside principles, Westside barbell principles in regards to general physical preparation.

pulling heavy sleds for time on end, 10, 20 minutes at a time, forward, backward, lateral crossover.

... either converting it via the Cori cycle back into glucose or buffering it otherwise.

For that, I'm a huge fan of Tabata sets-

Yeah

... and I'll often use those as a quick starter or finisher for a strength training set.

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if you wanted to do the lactic training at the same time.

Are you doing Tabata on the treadmill, bike, or just whatever you can find, or?

Whatever.

And that's a great example.

There's also Tabatas, which is another example of that.

And now they have Norwegian 4x4s, which 50 years ago we called mile repeats at the track.

So that's not a new thing.