Fitness

Tabata: Should You Try This Exercise Approach?

Tabata training is a high-intensity interval training (HIIT) workout, centered around exercises that last four minutes.

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I love physical activity. Let me walk briskly, and I find joy. Please put me on my treadmill with an IFit trainer, and I am off exploring the world. Whether you are after flexibility, strength, or aerobic conditioning, today’s post is for you. There are many training methods out there to help you reach your goals, but our focus is on a Japanese technique. Today we explore Tabata training.

Do you need a novel program to spice up your exercise routine? Tabata may be worth a look. It is a high-intensity interval training (HIIT) workout and features exercises that are four minutes in duration. But first, we turn to the man who developed the technique.

Tabata’s Japanese origins

Born in 1956, Izumi Tabata (田畑 泉, Tabata Izumi) is the dean at Ritsumeikan University Graduate School of Sport and Health Science. The school is in the lovely city of Kyoto, where my daughter attended a competitor, Doshisha University.

The dean is associated with the Tabata Protocol, the exercise regimen that is our focus today. With humility…