CrossFit FTP

Wednesday, March 3 WOD

TABATA THIS!!!

“Tabata” is a term used to describe this very intense method of training both the cardiovascular and muscular system.  Incredible improvements in both cardiorespiratory and muscular fitness will come from Tabata, and the research supports this claim!  Credit for this simple and powerful training method belongs to its namesake, Dr. Izumi Tabata and a team of researchers from the National Institute of Fitness and Sports in Tokyo, Japan.  Here is how it works:

Select your exercises and perform them, one at a time, in this manner:

8 sets…. 20 seconds work, 10 seconds rest.  Complete AS MANY REPS AS POSSIBLE in each of the 8 sets.  Then, after a short rest, move on to the next exercise and start again.

The movements we used today were:

ROWING

SQUATS

PULL-UPS

PUSH-UPS

SIT-UPS

Anyone feel it today?  Tabata hurts, and it works!  Fantastic job today, crossfitters!