Holy jelly legs batman

SHBoss1673

I just did my first Tabata protocol.

I used the traditional method of a regular stationary bike.

I did the professional version which is 20 seconds at 100% of your maximal effort, followed by 10 seconds recovery (stop or extremely slow cycle) and repeat for 8 intervals.

this is sandwiched between 2 five minute 75% maximal effort warmup and cool downs.

WOW, it's short, and you don't burn as many calories while exercising (but given the anaerobic output, I bet it evens out to about 35 minutes or so of 75% effort) but DAMN, it brutalizes you for that 15 minutes. 1/2 hour later my legs are still jelly.

For most, if you wanna try it, I would start with the 20/30 for a few times, and see how that goes, then move up to 20/20, and 20/10.

I know this sounds too short to be useful. But if you think about it, your doing 2:40 minutes of 100% maximum effort, which really does some body shaping.

SHBoss1673

I just did my first Tabata protocol.

I used the traditional method of a regular stationary bike.

I did the professional version which is 20 seconds at 100% of your maximal effort, followed by 10 seconds recovery (stop or extremely slow cycle) and repeat for 8 intervals.

this is sandwiched between 2 five minute 75% maximal effort warmup and cool downs.

WOW, it's short, and you don't burn as many calories while exercising (but given the anaerobic output, I bet it evens out to about 35 minutes or so of 75% effort) but DAMN, it brutalizes you for that 15 minutes. 1/2 hour later my legs are still jelly.

For most, if you wanna try it, I would start with the 20/30 for a few times, and see how that goes, then move up to 20/20, and 20/10.

I know this sounds too short to be useful. But if you think about it, your doing 2:40 minutes of 100% maximum effort, which really does some body shaping.